Sunday, December 26, 2004

CHRISTMAS: The Day After :O!!!
Well, only 364 days until Christmas; better get ready! Something tells me that it’ll be here again before I know it, lol, though I’m quite content with everything that I have right now. Eh.. maybe not completely, lol.

Shin: I can’t believe it took me so long to notice the second update, lol.
Annie: It was more like.. shampoo, hair gel and.. some kind of fragrance (I’m assuming it’s for men, but still). They might have been telling me that I run out of the stuff too fast, if anything, because I take a shower nearly every day. XD
Azure: I updated late, yes.. but still no one has commented! >:O
Shy: Yeah, I think when it comes down to it, I liked the second better. I don’t need a box set, though, unless they’d give a MASSIVE amount of extras.
Arc: ‘Tis the season for getting socks, eh?
Japan: My brother got a puppies calendar. Same as last year. -.-
Karmi: And here I was thinking it was Christmas. :/

I’m not awake enough to provide a real update, but I’ll try my best to tell you guys about my day, none the less.

Like I said in my last post, we ended up unwrapping gifts at around 6-ish, though I woke up at around 4:45. If you think that’s bad, though, my brother had been awake over an hour earlier, even though he knows that my dad waits until at least 5 to.. *ahem* “sleep in”. He just sorted gifts as usual while he waited, and we all ended up kind of going in a circle opening gifts. Last year, I decided to be really modest and wait until everyone else had completely opened their presents before I started opening mine. This year, I prepared myself with paper and pencil, and it came in handy for writing down my gifts.

I played a little Metroid Prime 2 after that, while my brother went back to Counter Strike which he had been off for (shock!) probably a couple hours. He did take a few minutes to try Half Life 2, and it turns out that it works on our shitty computer. Go figure. After testing out the multiplayer Metroid a bit, I suddenly got really tired and took a nap on the couch until around 10. We were leaving to visit my grandparents at 11, so I had to go around and pack various video games and such in the car to keep us occupied.

Usually, everyone always comes over to our house to celebrate the holiday, having that weird large lunch/dinner meal and opening presents from each other and such. However, lately my grandmother has been feeling really weak, and it’s too much work for her to leave the house for anything but to go to the doctor. I really hate to see her like this, too.. she’s always been so lively, and her mind is still sharp and active as ever. She’s one of those really nice grandmothers who you can feel really comfortable around, and slips you money whenever you see her, lol. So anyway, we visited her and my grandfather at their house for Christmas “dinner”, and that was really nice. We were watching Lord of the Rings: Return of the King extended edition the entire time we were there and didn’t even finish it. >_o But what can you expect? It’s over four hours long!

It was around 5:30 or so that we got home, and I decided to go to the basement and play a little more Metroid Prime 2, which I played for about an hour and a half at the least and only made it to the third save point. I guess I’m not too surprised, though. lol I scan just about everything humanly possible, and in this game it’s mandatory for the story line and to actually continue with the game. It’s a lot easier, too, since things that you’ve scanned actually change completely to green so that it’s simple to spot. ^_^ I started a Twin Snakes file as well.. on Normal mode. I’ve gotten basically no where, but I’m slowly finding that it’s actually a pretty tough game. I mean.. I played through Metal Gear Solid 2 twice, myself, but that was years ago and on pretty easy difficulty, heh. Should be fun when I really get into it, though, and then I’ll play… Snake Eater! :D

Other than that, though, I’ve just been listening to Harry Potter book 1 on tape lately, lol. Ever since I found out that the new book is coming out in July, I’ve realized that I hardly remember anything from reading the books however long ago, and I’m too lazy to actually read them again, haha. Luckily, my family has all of the books on cassette tapes. XD Thank God for my illiterate brother. >:O

Tomorrow, I plan to go to Best Buy and pick out some gifts that I wanted but didn’t get for Christmas. I know how greedy that must sound, but I’ll be using some money that I got for the holiday, first of all, and I have plenty extra to spend on whatever anyway. My plan is to buy Mario Power Tennis, Red Faction, Kill Bill Volume 1, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Monty Python and the Life of Brian. And when they’re released, I want to get Harold and Kumar go to White Castle and the first DVD of Samurai Champloo that comes with a bandana.

So much freaking money, but I haven’t bought anything in ages and there’s so much good stuff out!

..hmmm, this seems like much more of an update than what I was planning.

Syk3-out
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