***stardust

wheeee I have issues! *laughs* ..in case anyone was still undecided on that. *g*
Was dead friggin' tired at like, 9pm, and could've fallen asleep then...but instead stayed up poking about random blogs and doing silly things, finally starting in on painting ornaments for gifts for mom and the grandparents at like midnight.
And I need to get up at like 10am tomorrow.
Brilliance, ne?

Anyway, yeah. Though it i--err, was *laughs* Christmas Eve, and though we'd been up 'til like 3am the night before, Erik and I decided to go see The Last Samurai in the afternoon. I was mad impressed, I'd heard the movie was good but I hadn't expected it to be *that* good. Wow.
But yeah, had fun, chatted, joked around, picked at their translation of Japanese dialogue (though I highly doubt either of us could ever pull off an actual conversation in Japanese ourselves--! *laughs*), it was good. ^_^
Came back, they'd already eaten dinner without me - though I'd *said* I'd be back between 5.30 and 6, and it wasn't quite 6 when I got in..meh. whatever. was Chinese take-out anyway *giggles* no big deal.
Went to the candlelight service at chuch at 7.30, somehow managed to *not* see Laurel, though she was there, same goes for Matt Duell, though I did see - and actually talk to - Dan. Whom I'd seen once in awhile over the summer, but hadn't really talked to since, y'know, last year's candlelight service. *laughs* He passed along word of Blake having a party New Year's Eve...which I *highly* doubt I'll go to, as it will undobutedly be populated by the Choir People, none of whom I was exactly buddy-buddy with, apart from Blake and Dan, whom I still don't count as *quite* being of them.
And am still a bit sad over Blake *finally* visiting Fredonia..to see the opera, which one of said choir people was in..and never dropping by to see me at all, not even calling to say anything one way or another, after saying on aim that he'd drop by if he had a chance. meh.

Aaaanyway, no being sad over what-ifs from friggin' high school. *laughs* Esp. not on Christmas.

Got back here, opened gifts.. merani really liked the stuff I got her, which made me very happy. ^___^ Got the Strawberry Shortcake lunchbox we'd found at the antique co-op from merani, then from Dad, a Two Towers calendar (which is one of the first bits of LotR merchandise I'm not particuarly impressed with..just, idk, the way the images were done-up? I could seriously have done myself in photoshop, it was a really basic layout and very basic sorts of things, and that irks me a little. but still pretty pictures so I like. yay. *g*), a box of Twinkies, will be getting a new - 80gb *droooool* - harddrive...
And each of us got one of those little spaceship toys that shoot out foam discs.
^_____________^
*Far* too much fun. In one of the first bits of real family-togetherness we've had in awhile, the three of us shot the things at each other on and off for like half an hour, happily battling away. ^_^ It was good.
But those buggers sting a bit when they hit bare skin..
..which I guess made it all the more fun cos then we really *were* trying to avoid being hit and whatever. *giggles* yay.

Around 11 or 12 tomorrow we're going to the grandparents for Christmas with them and Mom, not sure what time I'll be back but I'd guess sometime after dinner, probably 7ish or thereabouts.
And then I get to talk to Megs and we open our presents from each other. ^___^

Okso getting sleep now. *giggles*

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
May all the petty arguments and sundry troubles and worries fade away, for even just a day, and have a warm, safe, happy holiday. ^_^

and holy feck that *rhymed* like a mofo and sounds like a really bad commercial. my apologies. going to bed. *giggles*

*Ananda Daydream * 1:47 AM * *

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