Caught In The Whirlwind
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Thanksgiving Summary
Nov 27th 2009
Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone and it was definitely an enjoyable one this year.
As per usual, I woke up bright and early to head over to my parents house for our traditional putting up of the christmas tree and such. This year, I helped with thanksgiving dinner again (assembling the lasagna and making the lemon meringue pie were my tasks). Unlike last year though, we didn’t do turkey. But that was perfectly fine with me.
My mom had a migrane headache the day before so she was running a little bit late with preparations so we ended up starting doing the tree after the Macy’s parade started. But it seems like everyone was running late (since they changed the parade route this year) so it worked out. The christmas tree has seen better days. Some branches are a bit droopy this year and some parts of the top are being held on by zip ties. The thought was that it’s going to have to be replaced soon. Dah. Especially since all the trees out there are pre-lit which seem to break more often.
The afternoon lead to some Madden with my Dad. I finally broke my horrific losing streak and we *almost* got our franchise mode game up to the playoffs. One more play and we’ll be there, but it’s harder to organize now that I live further away than I used to.
Dinner time arrived and with it came my roommates (along with the Strawberry Shortcake Cake that Wassy made to bring over. Mmmm) and my sister and her husband. The rest of the evening was thoroughly enjoyable, I thought. Dinner was tasty and fun and after we broke out Apples to Apples and played a game which ended up being a really really fun time.
As per usual, I know I left out a bunch of stuff, but the most important bit was that it was a great start to vacation. Lots of fun hanging out with my friends and family.
New Years Eve (Really, Really Late)
Jan 2nd 2008
I should probably note the goings on of New Years Eve since it was an out of the ordinary event. I guess the summary post yesterday took a lot out of me.
I got out of work early and headed home to play a little Xenogears before the festivities started. Every year my parents have always had a little new years eve gathering at their house for dinner and then some games after. This year I got there around 3 and we played some Mario Party on the Wii. After dinner my dad and I played some NBA Live 08 on the Wii as well. We're still trying to figure out how to play defense.
After that, we did the traditional game of Pokeno (for pennies) and then we switched over to a really cool game my sister got called Apples to Apples. It's extremely fun. One player is the judge, flips over a card with a word on it. Other players play one of their cards that have various words, people or things on them and the point is to play a card that's related to the word flipped over. The judge decides which word wins and the person who played it gets the green card. It's much more fun if you've got a bunch of people who have a strange sense of humor.
After that my sister had to take off to another party, so we watched a movie on the discovery channel HD about a super volcano in yellowstone which was interesting in a strange morbid sort of way. After my mom went to bed, my dad and I played some more NBA Live and finally sorta figured out how to play defense. At least…people were stealing the ball this time around. We rang in the new year playing that, and then I went home, excited to get to be able to do the first fold in my Origami page-a-day calendar.
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