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december 24th, 9pm, eastern standard time, from here on in i shoot without a script
Today included the excitement of taking the d-o-g for a w-a-l-k, and um... going to church for Christmas Eve. Well, it also included the excitement of more family arriving: first Josh and Brooke off the redeye, before we were really awake, and then Grammy Jane, with a car full of food and presents.
Eli's family has this tradition of wrapping presents in biohazard bags, which is sort of cool because it cuts down on wrapping paper messes, but sort of bad because I don't know what to wrap the presents I have for Ben and Tara and Laurel and Jason in. I hope I can scrounge up some wrapping paper in the house somewhere.
I finished reading Fellowship of the Ring this afternoon in the midst of helping decorate the monster tree, and was surprised at where the boundary of the book was as opposed to the movie. Shrug. Now I am about 50 pages into The Two Towers. We have to get Return of the King before I finish this one...
Going to church was of course weird for me, but, whatever. I mostly just sat there and every now and then I sight-read harmony lines to the songs (since I really dunno most of them except "adeste fidelis" and "silent night" from my years and years of choir christmas concerts). I thought the most interesting part was that a lot of the readings sounded familiar to me because I know Handel's Messiah so well... so I would hear all of the words and start getting songs in my head. (At least I didn't start humming them out loud. That would have gotten interesting with, say, the tenor line of Glory to God, which goes up to high A...) Eli's mom really wanted us to go though, and to meet all of her friends. I guess I get confused over the whole Christmas issue; it's so much easier to say I'm celebrating that than to try to give people presents for Chanukah or whatever. And I mean, the message of it all is the right idea (peace on earth, good will towards men, etc). I just feel confused because I have to remember to say Chanukah around my family, but also feel strange celebrating Christmas, as it were. I don't know.
I got Eli to play Bust-a-Move with me again. Eventually I will be such a bad influence on him that he will enjoy video games. Ha...
I hope we get to go see LOTR again with Eli's family and stop by the DDR machine in Hampshire mall, sucky though it might be. It's better than nothing. Oh, and tomorrow will also be exciting because there is more family and because there is a huge stack of presents for us to open! I don't think I've had a huge stack of presents at holiday time in a while. Probably not since I was a little kid. My dad doesn't do huge-stacks-of-presents and my mom would always buy more for my brother and a few random things like underwear for me, because I didn't live with her and all. I guess I've had small stacks of presents at birthdays occasionally (thanks!) but... sigh. I like presents. I'd make a good hobbit. (Or kender, hi Mike.)
Well, um, merry christmas, or whatever holiday, or happy december 25th, or something.
Eli's family has this tradition of wrapping presents in biohazard bags, which is sort of cool because it cuts down on wrapping paper messes, but sort of bad because I don't know what to wrap the presents I have for Ben and Tara and Laurel and Jason in. I hope I can scrounge up some wrapping paper in the house somewhere.
I finished reading Fellowship of the Ring this afternoon in the midst of helping decorate the monster tree, and was surprised at where the boundary of the book was as opposed to the movie. Shrug. Now I am about 50 pages into The Two Towers. We have to get Return of the King before I finish this one...
Going to church was of course weird for me, but, whatever. I mostly just sat there and every now and then I sight-read harmony lines to the songs (since I really dunno most of them except "adeste fidelis" and "silent night" from my years and years of choir christmas concerts). I thought the most interesting part was that a lot of the readings sounded familiar to me because I know Handel's Messiah so well... so I would hear all of the words and start getting songs in my head. (At least I didn't start humming them out loud. That would have gotten interesting with, say, the tenor line of Glory to God, which goes up to high A...) Eli's mom really wanted us to go though, and to meet all of her friends. I guess I get confused over the whole Christmas issue; it's so much easier to say I'm celebrating that than to try to give people presents for Chanukah or whatever. And I mean, the message of it all is the right idea (peace on earth, good will towards men, etc). I just feel confused because I have to remember to say Chanukah around my family, but also feel strange celebrating Christmas, as it were. I don't know.
I got Eli to play Bust-a-Move with me again. Eventually I will be such a bad influence on him that he will enjoy video games. Ha...
I hope we get to go see LOTR again with Eli's family and stop by the DDR machine in Hampshire mall, sucky though it might be. It's better than nothing. Oh, and tomorrow will also be exciting because there is more family and because there is a huge stack of presents for us to open! I don't think I've had a huge stack of presents at holiday time in a while. Probably not since I was a little kid. My dad doesn't do huge-stacks-of-presents and my mom would always buy more for my brother and a few random things like underwear for me, because I didn't live with her and all. I guess I've had small stacks of presents at birthdays occasionally (thanks!) but... sigh. I like presents. I'd make a good hobbit. (Or kender, hi Mike.)
Well, um, merry christmas, or whatever holiday, or happy december 25th, or something.