I had a pretty decent Christmas, aside from the drama at my parents’ house thanks to my loving sister who always seems to make my mother mad. It never fails. Combine both your parents born on Christmas, my mother always getting stressed out over the holdays, and my sister always stressing my mom out when she’s at home, and you have an explosion waiting to happen.
Holiday’s at Liz’s parents was much more relaxed; gift-giving was quick and simple, no drama at all throughout the day (aside from my car getting stuck driving up the long-ass hill known as their driveway, I don’t have snow tires and this is my first Winter with the Cobalt. Liz was stressed for about 10 minutes). Really made me realize how head-over-heels my family goes over Christmas. Lots of gifts, the tree had tons of presents wrapped under it, and it seriously takes like 2 hours to open everything.
I got away with a few gift cards, some clothes, ink for my printer, and a few other random things. I took one of my gift cards (Wal-Mart) and went there tonight, buying LED light bulbs to replace the regular ones around the apartment, along with a new lamp for the bedroom. Unfortunately all they had were the equivalent of 40-watt bulbs, and all the bulbs here are 60. Needless to say, the apartment looks a tad… darker. But the lighting is more natural, though. And there’s the apartment-furnished halogen lights which we can always use. We don’t really do anything that requires really bright lighting anyway, so it’s not all bad. If I can find 60-watt LEDs I’ll snatch them up.
Also saw The Spirit tonight. If anything made paying for the movie worth it, it was seeing Sam L dressed up in Nazi garb with a huge swastika and Hitler as the backdrop. I am not kidding you, this actually happened. The movie itself wasn’t that good but had enough “WTF” moments to definitely make it worth it.
Huge get-together on Liz’s side of the family tomorrow. Apparently they’re known having enough drama to warrant the police being called. My D40 will not be leaving my side, in hopes that I get to play paparazzi.
