Christmas blah blah New Year blah

[cosmic_celery]

It seems like I've not made a proper journal entry in forever.

Christmas went nicely and I managed not to make my mother angry about something or other, which is nice. It didn't seem to become the big deal that it could have...though at times it nearly got there. We did Christmas dinner at Grandmas and my Dad was there. Dad pushing himself last minute into holidays always pisses Mom off to no end, but things moved peaceably along.

I didn't really have much money at all this year, so she got a book and journal with the first page filled with nice things I think about her. ...I also wrapped up some tangerines and a banana, which made for fun unwrapping, and hopefully she thought it was as amusing as I thought it was.

For my dad the hit gift seems to be a book on beautiful experiments done in the history of science. He called me up and told me how much he likes it (no word of the other two books). When I was in the bookstore so much in the science section looked interesting, so maybe I'll head back later when I have more money and buy up a whole shelf's worth for myself.

I knitted my grandma a nice, warm scarf. I think that she liked it, and even if she doesn't she can still wear it while she's watching TV or something.

As for myself, I received some lovely things, including some awesome gloves from mertondingle a couple Past Doctor Adventures from shinnyjenni, as well as a bunch of wonderful cards.

Thanks, everyone!
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On New Years I watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with mom. She hadn't seen it before. I drank a rum and Coke because mom bought rum....but I don't really like rum. Or at least that rum. Ah well. I'd like to figure out more what sort of drinks I like. How's that for a New Year's resolution? Drink more.

Maybe I'm missing the self-improvement angle.

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Oh, and now I'm sick.

Comments

[faience.livejournal.com]

Almost entirely off-topic, but: Malibu & Coke = delicious. Malibu is coconut rum, and makes a rum & coke taste much less boozy and much more tropicaly. That last bit is not a real word, but perhaps the point is made nevertheless.

Way to go new years resolutions!

Oh, and feel better. Drinking probably won't help with that.

[cosmic-celery.livejournal.com]

Yeah...putting off the drinking till I'm sure that a hangover wouldn't actually kill me.

Tropicaly. Hm. Don't know about that, but I'll put in on the (imaginary) list.