december 26, 2002

over and done with for another year. home early today so i can go to work later. now i'm just waiting for the house to warm up so i can take a shower. i feel so dirty.

so a recap i guess. nothing extremely interesting or funny happened this year really...disappointing.

christmas eve headed to detroit...got there about 2:30. i seriously think the drive through canada from here to sarnia is one of the most boring drives ever. it is more boring than the drive to indiana. at least on the way to indiana there was some sort of change of seanery (sp i know) every now and then. even when you get to michigan, it's the same canadian wasteland until you get closer to where my grandparents live. anyway...
carol and eric were already at the grandparents house when we got there, and almost immediately i left with them to go to walgreens, just like last year. ed and laurice came over for dinner. like i said, nothing all that interesting happened. at dinner grandpa said that when his kids get older he's going to tell them all about his and grandma's love life...so then when everyone expressed their disgust and asked for barf bags he was like "what, do you think you happened cuz i was looking at her?" yeah...sick. then later during the gift unwrapping fiasco that is christmas eve at their house, my uncle gave him one of those stress ball things. he said it would be good for him since he had the stroke years ago blah blah blah. grandpa says "i used to get this kind of exercise all the time when i was single." *insert more puking here*....mom was in a snit cuz carol and ed both bought him some kind of alcohol...grandpa actually didn't have a fit, he started to get into a mini fit when carol and eric were leaving cuz it had started snowing, and he was telling them how to drive. oh, and i heard the story about my grandma shitting her pants and the flies following her again, just like last year. the other poop stories were left out this time around...

christmas day...spent the morning with the grandparents before going to marianne and gary's house for dinner. i think this is when my mom showed him all the pictures from wisconsin, california, and me and nate. so he's looking at the pictures of me and nate and the conversation went something like this.
g-pa: so what's his name?
mom: nate
g-pa: i had a buddy at work named nathan. *proceeded to keep calling nate, nathan. so i thought it would be harmless to correct him and tell him nate's name actually was nathaniel*
me: his name is really nathaniel
g-pa: what is it?
me: nathaniel
g-pa: macdaniel? what is it?
me and mom yell: NA-THAN-IEL
g-pa: what? mcdaniels? mcdanthels? i have a hard enough time with seth (he says it "seff") and now you expect me to learn mcdaniel? i'll just call him dan.
me and mom yell: NA-THAN-IEL!!!
mom: NATE!! NATE!! THEY CALL HIM NATE!!!
g-pa: i had a buddy at work named nathan. he was a colored but he was still a good guy.
*hand slaps forehead*
since none of the friends i have now have met my grandparents it's really hard to grasp quite how...frustrating...it is sometimes to deal with them. but it makes for good stories at times...later grandpa decided to tell me the state of americans this day and age. and i might be offended by it, but we're war mongerers... LOL. yeah cuz that offended me so much....anyway...
off to marianne and gary's around 3:30, her sons and families came over. got to see my 2 little cousins (2nd cousins i guess)...they're cute, for kids. lol. i can sorta see how it might be nice to have one or two once your married and settled down...but still...i don't want to touch them. warren is 3 and a half, and brenna (stupid name) is 15 months i guess. so they were tolerable. spent the whole night in their furnished basement cuz that's where the bar is. nothing really eventful happens with that family...we forgot to do the annual shot of jager...OOH i do have a story from that night though. so every year my aunt makes this gross german cake that i don't know how to spell the name of...binenstitch or something. anyway...she was cutting it and my uncle comments something about how we don't want to know the origin of the knife she was using. of course, i wanted to know, since he is an ex-cop. turns out the knife used to be evidence cuz it was used to stab someone like 50 times LOL. he brought it home to show her one day, and she liked it so much (cuz it was a good knife if it cut through human) and it hasn't left the house since. i don't know how long ago this happened, but i thought it was a good story. but i'm weird like that...

today...left grandparents real early, 9 am, to come home for work...so nothing happened. grandpa was still sleeping.

soo...this year was the year of pajamas...got another pair from grandma bringing the total up to 5, and a pair of pj pants from marianne...i guess the plan is to completely dump out my entire 2 drawers of pjs i have now, and just have these. at least winter pjs, i will keep my boxers and stuff that i wear in the summer...carol had this mirror specially made for me...some local artisan kind of deal. it's nice...it's a round mirror with these decorations on it and it says "fairest of them all"...it's nice. but i don't know what to do with it. i'm not hanging it in my room. when i have a place of my own it'll be a nice decoration but until then??...it'll stay in the box i guess. got some clothes from target...yes my grandma actually shopped at target this year (grandpa forbids it, he's a k-mart man)...so it's decent clothes that might have to be taken back cuz they won't fit, not because they're hideous. umm...that's basically it. christmas has scaled down since i was a kid. we used to pack the car to go home full of all the toys i got, and i would have to sit on packages. not so much anymore LOL. that is all on my cousins now. the 2 kids got so many gifts...i never got that many gifts when i was a kid.

overall it wasn't that bad...wasn't exactly fun and exciting either. the whole being upset about nate thing was under control most of the time. no one really knew much about it except carol, since i cried on the phone the day nate left when she called. so she said something about she was so happy for me about the casino job, but sad for me about nate. yeah almost cried there...i got a few of the "if it was meant to be..." comments...esp from marianne, which led into the whole aunt trudy/uncle kirk spiel and their 5 year long distance relationship...and mom feels the need to tell everyone that i'm really bummed about nate being gone. as if that wasn't a logical conclusion. i didn't get asked anything that i didn't want to talk about tho, so that was good. i got asked about the job alot. and both my parents felt the need to tell everyone i'm going to get a job with immigration...but whatever.

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