Christmas Shenanigans

Merry Christmas everyone! Or Merry Individually Designated Holiday!

I suppose I should start with Christmas Eve. No need for me to over explain it. We all woke up to surprise snow! This was the first official snow of the season. No one was expecting it because it's been so unchariceristically warm. We've had rain and hail, but nothing more than that. I'll be honest, nothing much happened on Christmas eve. I was down here in the basement for most of the day playing iphone games like Bejeweled, Twodots, Flow Free, Tetris Blitz, and others.

I napped for a few hours, hung around with family just doing random stuff. I spent some time watching SuperMCGamer's let's play of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time on Youtube. In the evening we cooked dinner and wrapped presents. Well, other people besides me wrapped presents. We had a ham, potatoes, salad, carrots, and fruit salad. It was fun watching people make the dinner. I'm not much of a cook, but mom and Laura are, so it's always really interesting seeing them make everything. Sadly I didn't get pictures of most of the food. Even though nothing really exciting happened today besides the snow it was still a great day just because the family was together.

Usually we play the present game, but this year we didn't do it so we could do stocking stuffers. What you do for the present game is you buy a bunch of cheap presents and you all pick a number. You sit in a circle and roll some dice. If you roll a 7 or 11 you can pick a present. Once you roll one you can either pick a present for steal one someone has already opened. This is really fun and sometimes hilarious. Playing the present game has always been one of my favorite traditions. 

Anyway, so I was up for most of the night. I know I at least got 4 hours of sleep, but I knew I wouldn't fall asleep again so I just succumbed to my vampire / night owl ways and watched youtube videos all night.

I came out of my dungeon at about 8am. I knew everyone would take a long time to get things started, but I was feeling uncharacteristically impatient anyway. Basically we didn't get to opening presents until around 10:30pm. It took a while for everyone to get together, especially Tim, who had to drive in the snow. All my nieces and nephew were glued to the living room. Even I was parked in front of the fire watching Fate/Stary Night Unlimited Bladeworks episode 10 on my phone via Chrunchyroll.com. Everyone else was listening to Christmas music and just going about their business. My mom was in the kitchen making apple skeebers. They are pancake balls filled with apple sauce and you dip them in maple syrup. We make them every year as a tradition on Christmas morning.

As anticipated everyone than happy to open the presents when we were all gathered together. We usually take turns opening our presents and don't open them all at once. Here are the ones I got. I didn't pay moth attention to what other people got because I was feeling a bit burned out by all the social interaction.

I needed new boots so bad.

Random rainbow headband, just one of many I want.

A jewelry holder.

Fuzzy posters and foam boards.

GLITTER

THE THING I WANTED TO MOST. MY STAR NECKLACE!

GREEN YARN, Linda is going to make me something. :)

some new bangle bracelets!

A star hole punch

RAINBOW SOCKS1

A SCARF AND A MATCHING HAT

FUNKY NAIL POLISH

A LARGE WOODEN BOX

SPRY GUM AND CINNAMON TOOTHPASTE

STENCIL BRISHES

SMALLER WOODEN BOX WITH FLOWER HAIR PINS INSIDE.

PAINTING STENCILS

Here is the video version.

I did my best to hold on through all the excitement, but all the noises, and people, and other things happening I was way over stimulated and burned out. I took all my stuff downstairs and took pictures and a video. I went back and forth from upstairs to downstais a few times getting something to eat. My mom, besides making the apple skeebers made eggs, bacon, sausage, and toast. I wasn't terribly hungry, but I enjoyed it a lot. After I ate I took my plate back upstairs and ten headed back down and fell asleep watching another Ocarina of Time let's play video by SuperMCgamer on youtube. I am on #19 as of now.

I'm not sure how long I slept, but nothing much else happened tonight. Well, after I woke up I found out that Justin caught the flu. Later in the night a couple of hours ago Linda and Jax also caught the flu. There have been a lot of sick people around, so I'm not terribly surprised. I think everyone except for me, Natalie and Kayla have caught it. Anyway, I was doing my usual internet shenanigans, music, reddit, facebook, stumbleupon, watching anime, etc. My family was upstairs playing scrabble and other games and I just didn't feel like joining in later in the night. I ate some chocolate peppermint creams that Linda gave the family for Christmas, as well as some of my mom's toffee, some Nut Thins, and I drank some sparkling peach stuff. Here are some photos.

Anyway, if I forgot to write about anything here I'll add it tomorrow, I am so exhausted by all the excitement. Such is the fate of nearly every introvert like me. We are all pretty much glad it's over, even though it was fun.

Christmas Colds

I woke up on Christmas with a stuffy / runny nose, I was really sensitive to cold things, and was aching a little. I noticed that I was hyper sensitive to touch, it was pretty weird and uncomfortable. In short I caught a cold, and I did not feel up to par. The night was not very kind to me, I hardly got any sleep and felt like a zombie when I woke up. It took everyone time to get together, we ate breakfast first yesterday. We have a tradition every year, we make aebleskivers, bacon, and sausage. I just sat in the living room in a daze and waited for everyone to gather so we could open presents.

It was a couple of hours after I woke up that we finally began to open our presents. This is what I got.

Starting from the bottom, going from right to left:

1. A blue shirt with sequens
2. Winter stuff, hat, gloves, and scarf.
3. Thomas Kinkade Calendar (he's a beautiful artist).
4. New pair of jeans
5. The Hobbit (book)
6. Bandanas, headbands, and soap
7. Number 7 is what the bandanas and headbands were in. It's a box disguised as a book. It has peacock designs on it.
8. My new shoes, they look blue in the photo, but they are actually more like aquamarine, or mint green.
9. This one was the one I did not expect at ALL. iPhone 5. Both me and my brother got one.

 

My nieces got an Xbox 360, with a couple of games. I have always wanted an Xbox, so this made me really happy. I will probably buy some games of my own soon for it.

When we were setting up my iPhone yesterday, the person that was setting it up accidentally got my number and my dad's number mixed up somehow. We got it fixed though. I had to have my dad's number for the night, everything else on my phone was mine though.

My day was a bit blurry because of my cold. My mom made beef stew  and cream of brocoli soup for dinner. I am really glad she made soup, it was exactly what I needed. In the evening after dinner my family started playing games. I just went back downstairs and started watching "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" on TV. I talked to Ronnie and played around with my new iPhone while i was doing this. My head was pounding, so it was nice to just lie on the couch and relax. I was also pretty worn out because of all the social interaction.

My mom made her English Toffee, she is really great at making it. We put nuts on top of it sometimes, but this time it was just caramel and chocolate.

It was so nice when I got to go to sleep. I woke up twice, but I still got pretty good sleep. I think this is all for now. I'm still feeling pretty bad right now, but not as bad. I am not sensitive or achy anymore. My cold is basically the reason why I didn't do this yesterday. :)

Happy New Year! And a Recap!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope everything goes well for everyone on Xanga! I can't believe it's new years already!

I'll give a recap of all the stuff I did not blog about during the end of the year.

Christmas week was very busy. My sister, my nephew and my brother in law came down from california to gisit us for christmas. My nephew Jax is so adorable. he is only 4 months old. i spent a lot of time around him it was fun watching him and stuff. he did spit up on me a few times though and that was not pleasant ha ha. 

Christmas week was busy, we did lot's of shopping and buying various things for Christmas. We went to Bed Bath and Beyond, Ross, Burlington coat facorty, Wallmart, the mall and many other places and bought many things it was a big adventure for all of us and all of us most certainly came home every night with tired and sore feet. I know mine were at least. It seems that the week of christmas we went to every store in the city (which i know isn't true it just seemed that way).

It was fun shopping with the family, we hardly ever get to do anything with each other so it was really nice.

My brother and my sister Linda got this huge TV for my dad to replace out really small one. We had to plan it so my dad was out shopping so we could move the big TV in the living room. It's 27 inch. My brother and my sister's husband did the moving. We had to move tales, plants, and other stuff so it could fit in the living room it was so crazy. We have a lot of plants so it was a  challenge.  it was so funny though seeing them moving all that stuff around just so they could fit a TV.

We played a lot of games, and ate a lot of pie and other great stuff. We had a lot of jellybeans as well. For some reason I kept getting a large amount of green ones.  It was a very sugary christmas. Surprisingly I did not gain any weight from it though. We always play a lot of games around the holidays it's a standard thing in my family. We usually play board games, and card games. Now that I think about it we have never played video games together for years.

Anyway, christmas and christmas eve were pretty cool. Christmas eve we just watched movies, and played games and stuff. Christmas was a bit more exciting though. I was surprised when no one was up early in the morning on christmas day. it seems that everyone except for me and my sister Laura were the only ones up before 7am.  I could not sleep at all. Everyone was up until about 3am the night before and woke up around 9 or 10am in the morning.  We made breakfast around 10am and then got everyone together and opened presents.

Everyone got a good number of presents. it took us a good 2 hours or so to open presents. A lot of boxes of chocolates were opened. We, all 12 of us probably demolished 3 whole boxes. I got some makeup, a Nintendo DS, a Fullmetal Alchemist calendar, some clothes, some books, and a movie (my neighbor Totoro). My other family members got cothes, scarfs, my mom got a new cordless phone, a purse, and some other stuff. My sister got baby clothes for Jax, a lot of presents were under the tree. We had a lot of fun opening all of them.

We made apple skeebers for lunch. They are like round pancake balls with apple sauce in the middle and you dip them in this really great cinnamon sauce. most of the rest of my day was just games and playing with all the stuff we got, like the new TV, and my DS is pretty fun as well! i played with my niece and nephew a lot that day.

I got hair dye stuff for christmas as well, I knew I was getting it though because I picked it out the day before.  I dyed my hair with ION hair color Medium red hair dye. It's sort of a really dark, purplish red. It looks really super nice though. I've never dyed my hair before. My sister did it for me. It's so nice to have a different hair color for once. It looked like a horror shop when I was washing it out though, like I was washing blood out of my hair so freaky ha ha.  I was anticipating the coloring of my hair for that whole week and I was not dissappointed with the results. I'll put pictures up later.

The rest of this week has been pretty normal after my sister left on Monday. Things went back to normal, we all started doing our own things after christmas, playing with our presents, I got my computer back, we fixed it, the holidays were amazing. I miss my nephew though a lot. He was so adorable and fun to play with.  I've been working on some new anime, and doing stuff on facebook all week and setting up my newly fixed computer.

We can play netflix and some other cool internet things on our new TV. I am working on watching LOST now. I've never watched it. I'm not very big on TV, haven't been for about 4 or 5 years now. 

new Years Eve was nothing special for the most part except for the end when we got to count down together.  I just spend the day watching Asian dramas it was fun.

Anyway, if I remember anything I left out I will edit this.

This is not my actual New Years Post by the way. This is mostly just a re-cap. I will do my actual new years post later. it's only 1am here now. I have a lot of time.