xmas and vegas
"You're leaving me here, dear, alone with all your letters. You're letting it go, no, like innocence and feathers. You're putting it down. Sounds slipping into songs. You're leaving me here, dear, alone with all my wrongs. You're pulling away; pray you're making the right choice. You're pulling away, stay and listen to my voice.” Stroke 9 – Letters
So Christmas came, and went. But not without it’s hassles. Don didn’t show up for Xmas Eve. Stelle did, as my family, and we had a good time. Brandon (Jacob’s best friend) and Vanessa(his mom) stopped by after dinner for a drink and to drop off presents. We got liquor.
Xmas day, Jacob woke me up at 9 and wanted to open gifts. He tickled me out of bed, and we did our exchange.
Here’s what I got:
Slippers (too small, need to return)
Sweater (also too small, need to return)
Book on stenciling, with stencil thingys in it
A quick chop
An electric can opener (this was in my stocking... WTF?)
Pims & Rochet
Jamba Juice gift card
A bottle of my favorite wine
A memory card for my game cube
A converter thingy that changes playstation controllers into game cube ones
Unbrella with one of Monet’s paintings on it
I got him:
3 dress shirts
A new belt
A new wallet
A sling shot
A tool kit
A tool keychain thingy
Magnetic Dart board
Martini Making Kit
And I can’t remember what else now...
So we went to Breakfast at his parents house, and we did gifts:
I got:
2 woks (one from his parents, one from his brother)
The Sims online
Hand cream (grrrrr!)
Michelle Branch CD
Romeo & Juliet DVD
A new watch
A memory card for game cube (The one Jacob got me is better)
Crazy Taxi
A flying disc gun
Hippo socks
Sequence (it’s a game)
A squishy pen thingy
These pocket travel map thingys that pop up and show you stuff about different places. One for Paris, and one for Amsterdam.
And more that I forget
He got:
Game boy advance with a game (I’ll be using this for the Game cube)
A playstation game
A flashlight set
A giftcard to tower records
3 books on Marshal Arts
A tool kit (grrrr)
Flying disc gun
Book on Vegas gambling
And more that he can’t remember
Dual gift from Joy & Larry:
Coffee gift set, with a coffee grinder
At about 1:30, we had brunch, eggs, ham, English muffins, mimosas.
Then, we went home, dropped off presents, and picked up the gifts that were going to my Moms.
At 2:30, we got to my Moms, and we ate. Again. Ham, Turkey, all the stuff that goes with it.
And we exchanged gifts:
We got:
8 piece luggage set (From Mom)
A nice bottle of Brandy with 2 sniffers (Jay)
A bottle of Margarita Mix – just add ice! (Mom)
I got:
$100 from mom
$100 from gram
A pocket book with common german phrases from John
$20 gift card to Starbucks from Chris
He got:
$50 gift cert. to Red Lobster (mom)
$50 from Mom
$100 from Gram
$10 Blockbuster card from Chris
And I think, a book from John
At 5:00, we left, went home, dropped off gifts, and called the parents to see if there was anything they needed us to bring for dinner.
Yes, horse radish.
Sooo, we went to the store, stood line for 45 min, and got the sauce.
Then, we showed up at their house, and ATE AGAIN. We had prime rib, with taters, bread, and other stuff.
I felt like I was going to die.
BTW, my Mom dropped a dish of corn on my foot yesterday when she was cooking. I wasn’t wearing shoes. It hurt. It burned. It’s bruised. =
Oh, we forgot to bring the luggage home yesterday. So we are driving up to my mom’s to go get it tonight. Then we are going to get Jacob a hair cut. And both of us shoes for the wedding. Ugh.
Our plane leave tomorrow night. And we come back on Sunday night. At least I found something to wear to the wedding. And you know what else sucks? We wrapped the wedding gift all nice, and, we realized just hours ago, that YOU CANT WRAP ANYTHIGN AND BRING IT ON THE PLANE! STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!
Oh well. I believe I will spend the weekend either at the spa, or being obliterated. Or, maybe both....
I’ll let you know if we win. And how the trip went... tah-tah.
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