Christmas was yesterday and I spent most of it feeling tired and unenthusiastic. We didn't do much during the day during Christmas Eve except my mom and I built a couple Christmas legos. Actually, we had gotten this knock-off not-lego set last year of a Christmas house, and we had started working on it, but we spent two hours and didn't even get ( Read more... )

So, the fridge breaking threw a wrench in my birthday plans... sort of. My only plan was to go to the bookstore and then have Italian chicken with macaroni and cheese, and then go out to dinner on Friday. My parents had to deal with the fridge stuff on my actual birthday. Checking out fridges at Lowes, picking one and seeing if it could be ( Read more... )

Christmas was a bit different this year because my brother and his girlfriend were going to be spending Christmas all day with his girlfriend's family. That meant we had to open the presents from them and to them on Christmas Eve. And that's what we did when they first arrived. I did get a gift from them, which was a book, but I already owned the ( Read more... )

My birthday was yesterday. I didn't really get to do what I wanted. I had been wanting to go to the Academy of Motion Pictures museum in LA for 2-3 years now, but it doesn't look like that's happening again. Last year was because of a COVID spike. This year I don't really care, but it just doesn't seem to be happening. :/ One day ( Read more... )

We finally got to have our Christmas yesterday. It was such a weird situation really. Normally we have a special breakfast with bacon and french toast on a Christmas morning, which we still did on the 25th, and then we'd usually open presents after that. This time we had Christmas two days later and Grammy and my brother came over around one to ( Read more... )

We celebrated my mom's birthday on Wednesday. Big birthday too as she just turned 60! It sounded like she had a good birthday too. Maybe she might have wanted to go away for it, but we're still not doing that just yet. She went out to lunch first and her friends from tennis gave her a bunch of presents. That was nice. :) Then that night we went out ( Read more... )

All things considered with everything that's happening in the world right now, I had a good Christmas. First, the meal. I went Googling for side ideas for our ham, and partly came up with the menu myself. My mom wanted to go with baked potatoes and yams this time. We also had couscous, biscuits with honey, and I found out this yummy recipe for ( Read more... )

Normally I would include personal blog stuff when I've finished a game, but that's not going to happen for a bit so I thought I'd update on a couple holiday things. For the Fourth of July our town's fireworks show was canceled. Didn't really make a difference to us since we never watch it anyway, and fireworks put me into a panic. That didn't stop ( Read more... )

I had a pretty nice Christmas, but it was off to a late start this year. Both of my parents have been sick since Thanksgiving. Yeah, I really don't know what's going on there. :/ But luckily I've been fine *knocks on wood*. So, decorations went up late and not all of them went up. My mom thought we'd never get the tree up, but we finally did. The ( Read more... )

So my birthday was on Wednesday. We went out to dinner that evening to CPK and then we picked up an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen afterwards. It was more like ice cream in the shape of cake, but it was still really good. It had vanilla and chocolate ice cream with a chocolate cookie crumble in the middle and a little whip cream on top. I just got ( Read more... )