And To All A Good Night!
Ack!
( Lacey! )Well, after realizing that part of my still feeling sick was in fact that time of the month, I ended up just sleeping. Instead of sleeping and dosing myself with medicine. I suspect some of my headache was coming from taking medicine that I didn't actually need, because when I stopped and just let myself sleep... >.>;;
Ended up sleeping most of my Christmas Eve off, too. But at least I'm feeling better! And I could eat fruitcake. ^.^
Played Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete while I decorated the tree/wrapped presents, because I felt like it darnit! So, now for tree-pictures!
( Cut because I feel like it darnit! )Of course, immediately after taking that picture I started loading things into the car. Got everything in (or so I thought) and headed out! (5:32) :D
Just before pulling up in front of the sis's place, I realized I forgot the watergate salad I'd made. >.> 6:10. Arrive outside of their place and realize no one is awake yet. Guilty and upset over forgetting the watergate salad (a holiday tradition, darnit! and my job to make!) I turn around, drive all the way home, confuse my cat who seems to think I am back to play with her by running through the house to grab watergate, and head back out.
Arrival
back at the sis's: 7:24. (Let's not talk about my speed on either of the round-trips today, yes?)
But presents were had and loved by all! :D Michelle wasn't interested in any of her other toys after she got ahold of the Dora Dollhouse! XD And Nathaniel most loved this huge Godzilla that Mom found for him somewhere, and Jonathan loved everything, and Ashlin... well, Ashlin loved
everything. Including some toothpaste she opened under the impression it was a present. >.>
XD XD XD
And the chocolate-cockroaches! omg. Nathaniel was the first to dig his out of his stocking. All, 'ooo what's this?' and so his mommy told him, "Look it's a
roach!" He actually squealed when she peeled back part of it. And scooted back on the floor, and it was just hilarious. We were laughing
so much, and the sis thanked me for coming up with the idea, and Jonathan, delighting in the fact that it freaked his brother out, kept munching very showily, great big mouthfuls of 'Roach Guts!' and 'Look 'thaniel!' and reminding everyone who would listen that they were bugs. XD
So I did talk to my Mom, and despite the fact that I was sure things were going to be ugly, it was... okay. We talked. Mostly about the family-research stuff that she and the sis are very much into. Tiny family anecdote - everyone would try and tease me, when I was little, about my nose. Which doesn't look like anybody else in the family's, that we knew of at the time. I say try, because I don't care much about noses. I don't like them, but I don't really dislike them either... so, meh.
Only Mom announces to me during this conversation, that she found my nose. >.> So i get dragged out to her van, to look at some pictures which are in the back of it, and she's telling me all these things about her grandfather and stuff, and finding out that... augh, I think she said it was my great-grandmother on her mom's side of the family. Her people were French Huguenots. And shows me this old-fashioned black and white photo, and sure enough - the whole family. Noses like mine. XD
*shrugs* What else could I do? I stuck my nose in the air and said in snooty-tones "
I have an
aristocratic nose" and there was laughing at me. Some more. ...
plebeians. ;p
And now, before I run away to work, an obligatory munchkin-picture! >:D
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