Christmas woes and wows...
On the 23rd, I finished wrapping the last of my gifts, and spent all night burning bianca's CD. Slept at 3 am for it!!! All because our stupid printer had to be installed thrice. And my computer decided it was proper to go have a LOT of hangs and errors and non-responsive programs. GAAAAAAAAAH!!! X_x I had to restart my computer in the middle of tyoing all 26 song titles. CRAP!!! Thank goodness for rescued files. >_<> On the 24th, we went to confession in the morning, where I spotted a kid who looked exactly like Kame of Kat-tun! Imagine! He had a semi-kal haircut, which only proves that he does look like Kame, features-wise and not because his hair reminded us of Kame. He even resembles Kame sideview! He was about 3 feet tall and rather Kawaii. Even Bianca noted the resemblance without my mentioning it. And Bianca hasn't seen Kat-tun for a while. So for her to actually think of Kame upon seeing the kid, he must resemble the guy a lot. And he looked like he was gonna burst into tears cause everyone had to wait in such a LOOOoooOOng line to confess. ^_______^; Poor kid. The Sartes went off to stay at their father's side's family, leaving us all alone in our house. Which was alright, cause we were busy planning our Noche Buena and Simbang Gabi... until dinner time came and my mom fell sick with flu and suddenly, we weren't hearing Mass anymore, nor will we have Noche Buena. ;_; Sad... Luckily, I called up my Grandma on my father's side and after making several inadequate (as my mom commented... ^_^;) preparations, we had a very tasty Noche Buena with mini ensaymadas with grated queso de bola on them, egg tart which tasted somewhat like croissant shells with leche flan inside, tasty dinner rolls, fiesta ham, really fudgy and delicious brownies, etc... Good meal. :D My aunt also updated us of the new developments in Subic. There's actually a live fire shooting range there! Perhaps my dad will allow me to shoot during Holy Week. ^_^; The irony... tsk, tsk... ok, maybe before holy week then? Afterwards, Bernice remembered that we didn't take a single picture that night, so in our pajamas, we took pictures of ourselves to remind us of our 2004 Christmas Eve. ^_____^ *narcistic*
On the 25th, we all woke up early and finally opened our presents. I wonder why Christmas morning is always the COLDEST morning of the season. *shrugs* Maybe its just me though... Cause I only wake up early on Christmas morning. ^^; While making some sly comments about 'Santa', we opened our presents, which I note with much pleasure did not include much clothing. ^_^ I wonder why parents love to give such things for Christmas. It's not like we don't have access to such things on regular days. Anyway, I recieved a miniature (as big in area(lxw) as a cd case?) wooden piano (kawaii!! ~doesn't work though ^^;) while my sisters recieved a model of their respective instruments, among a few other things. My sisters gave me a bracelet from SM north, the funny thing being that I came upon them while they were paying for it in the cashier. ^_____^; They had to pretend it was for France when I ignorantly examined it. ^__^ After gift opening, we had to take of to meet the family of my dad's brother. There we had a Christmas lunch reminiscent of a Thanksgiving dinner. They did always serve the most interesting food and give the most interesting gifts. ^_^ They gave our family a ton of gifts, including a chocolate brick (literally a brick!) and some photo paper to print our own pictures from the digi cam, among others. We had Turkey with gravy and cranberry sauce, corn on a cob, 3 kinds of pumpkin pie (sponge cake, cheese cake, and plain, applepie-like pie), mashed potato and sparkling champange for lunch. ^___^ Another aunt, Tita Olive, called from LA, cause she was informed that my grandma would come for lunch, and since my grandma stays in Subic, it was the only time to get hold of her. ^^; This aunt is coming home from the States you see, to attend the Clan's reunion, and we were to spend part of this get-together planning the reunion. *sleeps* Too bad I got sick on that day as well... Imagine! Sick on Christmas day!! I spent most of the get-together sitting (almost sleeping) in their couch. -__- Tsk, tsk... when we got home, I quickly fell asleep on my bed, UNTIL my mom shook me awake cause we kids had a call from the States!!! My cousins called!!! TuT It was nice to hear from them, and it's our first Christmas without them, so we were really thinking about them. Nice Christmas surprise neh? After talking for about an hour... and I wonder how anyone can afford to call from the US and make the call last for 30 minutes. ^^; *kuripot* I think they have prepaid, cause all calls had to extend for 30 minutes, but not exceed it. ^^;
On Christmas night, we went to De Guia, met up with the Sartes again, ate a richly satisfying steak, paella and kare-kare dinner. Our cousins called again, and the Sartes and my Gradma was finally able to talk to them. Touching. ^___^ We also made our Cousin's fanfic much more elaborate, involving innate powers, boundless wisdom of the ages, mixed blood lines, elementals, etc. Fun! ^_^
When we finally got home, complete with the Sartes kids and their car, ^_^ we let France open her mountains of presents in our house, which her brothers were shocked to see, cause they previously opened their mountain of gifts on Christmas eve... So France has 2 mountains, and officially the most gifts among all of us. ^_^ I don't mind. France is the most thoughtful anyway.
Me and my sisters were sort of sick by this time. ^_^; BTW...
Have you ever opened a gift only to see something you've always wanted but never expected to have? *Shrieks* France is SOO thoughtful!! I didn't expect she'd give me such a nice gift. *ties ribbons into newly erected france admiration shrine... JOKE! She's might kill me. ^_^;* I was unsuspectingly ripping apart the wrapper and when i saw a glimpse of what it contained, I almost hugged france. ^_^ Almost is good, cause I don't usually hug people unless my momentum causes an almost hug to be a real hug, as once happened with VIgile, or if the person hugs me and I'm supposed to hug back. ^_^; And serously, I've been wanting this mystery gift for some time now, to the point of almost agreeing to spend part of my birthday money on it. ^___^ And you guys know how stingy I am. You guys will probably think I'm being silly and frivolous if you find out what this is. *embarrassed* WHATEVER!!
So with this I end my blog entry:
Thank goodness I can rest today, tomorrow's aother reunion, and another on the 30th. ;_; BTw, Cara, sorry we got cut off during our chat today. We had a split-second brownout. ;_;
Wow... I really have this tendency to write long entries... O_o;
