Christmas 2006

posted by chip on Tuesday, the twenty-sixth of December 2006, at a quarter past eleven at night
I must be getting old, because when I was urged to wake up on Christmas morning, I groaned and pulled the covers tighter. I eventually did wake up, and stumbled downstairs to survey my stocking-stuffers. Stocking stuffers here are typically foodstuffs and useless trinkets. I also usually get a box of Cocoa Puffs. I shook a likely box to determine its contents. "Hmm," I thought, "that's not it." I shook another box. "There they are." (The first box turned out to be Golden Grahams)

After getting some sugar to my brain, we divvied presents, opened them in turn, then reveled at the piles of paper and boxes. I got a replacement for my broken camera, a newer Sony CyberShot DSC-P73. 4.1MP, 3x optical zoom, MPEG movies with sound. If I get a Memory Stick PRO, I can even record video at 30FPS. It's everything I was looking for in the original camera, and it cost my mom half what I paid. :-/. My brother got me a SuperCard with a 1GB SD card so that I can run homebrew and *cough* other... *cough* things on my DS. The rest of my loot is the standard: food, clothes, and black socks. (I am aware of how stupid black socks look. I don't care.)

After presents, we ate our MREs. I got Jambalaya, and my sister got a barbecue veggie burger that looked like seven shades of nasty. She said it tasted good, though. ... What, your family doesn't eat military rations on Christmas? Weirdos.

This Christmas, our family and my sister's boyfriend's family gathered at my sister's place for Christmas dinner. Dinner was good, but the best part was the chocolate cheesecake my sister made. You might assume from the words "chocolate cheesecake" that I am talking about a standard cheesecake covered in chocolate. You would be wrong. It is a cheesecake that is chocolate through and through. It was amazing. Afterwards we played "Stinky Bingo," a bizarre form of Bingo that involves wacky presents and stealing said presents from one-another. The whole thing was a lot of fun.

Right now, I'm recovering from post-Christmas lethargy. I didn't even turn on my laptop and log on until a few hours ago. I've been playing DS, some Siren on PS2 (one mans trash is another mans treasure... thanks, Jen), and generally just sitting around the house.

No... we didn't get a Wii. :-(

Merry Christmas, everyone.

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