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I need a vacation from my holiday
Nov. 29th, 2010 12:24 pmHi, folks, I am back from Thanksgiving, which was more exhausting than anything else, lol.
OMG I ate sooo much food, and yet still managed to lose weight (having a malfunctioning digestive system does have its perks). But my parents definitely made me work for my food - as soon as I got home on Wednesday night, we started cooking. A cooking post with the full menu and possibly recipes is forthcoming. :) Of course we made FAR more than was necessary, since we only had to feed six people. It was kind of sad when I was setting the table and realized we didn't even need to bring extra chairs into the dining room. We're down two people now that my uncle's gone and my cousin's fiance is now an ex, and my dad's family have their own Thanksgiving so they never come.
Since it was only my two aunts and one cousin who came over, dinner was relatively uneventful, except for my cousin being her usual self and arguing with everything her mother said. I do get the feeling every time we see them that my mother appreciates me a lot more for being such a good daughter and not nearly as difficult as Devi, lol.
Friday was mostly spent shopping. We never used to bother with Black Friday until a few years ago, when we discovered we had a secret weapon. Thanks to my dad's off-kilter sleep pattern, he's usually up at 4am anyway, which gives him an advantage over all the normal people who have to drag their asses out of bed four hours earlier than normal. So for the last few years, we've been sending my dad out to buy whatever we want when the stores open, and then my mom and I go out at a much more leisurely 9 or 10 to do our own shopping. It works out pretty well.
I managed to make a decent dent in my Christmas shopping. I got three people completely done, ideas for a few more, so all that's left are the difficult family members (seriously, I do not know how to shop for 20-something year old boys) and my friends. You may see a request for gift ideas in the near future. :)
On Saturday, we put up my parents' Christmas tree and decorated the house. I decided I'm going to buy a tree - bigger than the one-foot-tall Charlie Brown one I have - for my apartment this year, so I spent some time pilfering ornaments from my parents. It's not like they can't spare a few. I think they've collected enough over the years to decorate three trees, lol. I suggested to my mom that she could probably do a whole tree just with ornaments from places we've gone on vacation.
We had a big project on our hands for Saturday night. My dad's Black Friday goal for this year was a new refrigerator, and he managed to get the one he wanted, but like the doofus he is, scheduled the delivery for the next day, when we have tons of leftovers in the fridge. They delivered the fridge at 7pm, and so we had to clean out the refrigerator in the kitchen AND the one in the garage, because we were getting rid of the old one and moving the kitchen one down to the garage. And then when the delivery guys left, we had to put everything back in, lol.
Before I left on Sunday, we went out to breakfast with my grandmother, who keeps getting weirder each time I see her. She's narcissistic, paranoid, and a hoarder, and it's only getting worse as she gets older and the senility kicks in. Crazy story of the day: she is convinced that the guy who came in to paint her kitchen stole two of my grandfather's hats. My grandfather has been dead for twenty years, and those hats were probably forty years old, so I don't know why anyone would want them, but she insists "that crook" stole the hats, apparently because he was going to Atlantic City that weekend (IDEK where she comes up with these things). Though my favorite story remains the "Chinese people on the internet" one. :) As we were getting in the car to take me to the bus, my mom said, "Last train leaving Crazytown. All aboard!"
OMG I ate sooo much food, and yet still managed to lose weight (having a malfunctioning digestive system does have its perks). But my parents definitely made me work for my food - as soon as I got home on Wednesday night, we started cooking. A cooking post with the full menu and possibly recipes is forthcoming. :) Of course we made FAR more than was necessary, since we only had to feed six people. It was kind of sad when I was setting the table and realized we didn't even need to bring extra chairs into the dining room. We're down two people now that my uncle's gone and my cousin's fiance is now an ex, and my dad's family have their own Thanksgiving so they never come.
Since it was only my two aunts and one cousin who came over, dinner was relatively uneventful, except for my cousin being her usual self and arguing with everything her mother said. I do get the feeling every time we see them that my mother appreciates me a lot more for being such a good daughter and not nearly as difficult as Devi, lol.
Friday was mostly spent shopping. We never used to bother with Black Friday until a few years ago, when we discovered we had a secret weapon. Thanks to my dad's off-kilter sleep pattern, he's usually up at 4am anyway, which gives him an advantage over all the normal people who have to drag their asses out of bed four hours earlier than normal. So for the last few years, we've been sending my dad out to buy whatever we want when the stores open, and then my mom and I go out at a much more leisurely 9 or 10 to do our own shopping. It works out pretty well.
I managed to make a decent dent in my Christmas shopping. I got three people completely done, ideas for a few more, so all that's left are the difficult family members (seriously, I do not know how to shop for 20-something year old boys) and my friends. You may see a request for gift ideas in the near future. :)
On Saturday, we put up my parents' Christmas tree and decorated the house. I decided I'm going to buy a tree - bigger than the one-foot-tall Charlie Brown one I have - for my apartment this year, so I spent some time pilfering ornaments from my parents. It's not like they can't spare a few. I think they've collected enough over the years to decorate three trees, lol. I suggested to my mom that she could probably do a whole tree just with ornaments from places we've gone on vacation.
We had a big project on our hands for Saturday night. My dad's Black Friday goal for this year was a new refrigerator, and he managed to get the one he wanted, but like the doofus he is, scheduled the delivery for the next day, when we have tons of leftovers in the fridge. They delivered the fridge at 7pm, and so we had to clean out the refrigerator in the kitchen AND the one in the garage, because we were getting rid of the old one and moving the kitchen one down to the garage. And then when the delivery guys left, we had to put everything back in, lol.
Before I left on Sunday, we went out to breakfast with my grandmother, who keeps getting weirder each time I see her. She's narcissistic, paranoid, and a hoarder, and it's only getting worse as she gets older and the senility kicks in. Crazy story of the day: she is convinced that the guy who came in to paint her kitchen stole two of my grandfather's hats. My grandfather has been dead for twenty years, and those hats were probably forty years old, so I don't know why anyone would want them, but she insists "that crook" stole the hats, apparently because he was going to Atlantic City that weekend (IDEK where she comes up with these things). Though my favorite story remains the "Chinese people on the internet" one. :) As we were getting in the car to take me to the bus, my mom said, "Last train leaving Crazytown. All aboard!"
