Christmas

I always feel at Christmas, "Wow, it's already come and gone." It usually seems anti-climatic for all the hype.

It was so hot in my grandparents' living room between the electric fireplace and a space heater. My dad started to doze off in the massage chair (without the massage going). I later took a short nap in it after using the massage; it was nice.

I wasn't expecting much in way of presents and didn't want unnecessary stuff, but like usual, I'm disappointed when I get few things. My mom didn't buy me anything. She's said to me and my sis for years now, "I need to take you shopping because I don't know what you like." But I am 24 now and earning money. I don't pay much at all for rent, so I should be grateful for that. She gave me money a few weeks ago before I went out shopping, and I came back with a nice, new brown weather-proof winter coat.

I gave my dad men's vitamins (which he doesn't usually take), "Holmes" brand sardines in mustard sauce and a nice dark choc bar. Gave my mom Sesame-covered cashews and also a nice dark choc bar. Couldn't think of anything else to give her (how sad is it that she's harder to buy for than my dad?), so my sis and I together gave them a gift certif to a nice restaurant for a date. Giving foodstuffs to each other is not uncommon for us; we give practical, cheap things! I gave my sis a Burt's Bees peppermint body products set (which I bought cheaper than at Target; score) and pineapple-scented lotion I figured she'd like. She felt bad she hadn't bought anything for us, esp. me, and said she wants to get me something later. I don't mind, and it's not her fault because she can't drive herself, our mom rarely takes her shopping, and when we went shopping this week, she couldn't well hide something from me.

It's raining a lot.. the snow will melt away. My sis drove the first 45 min home from grandparents,' and was good my dad took over when he did because it started to rain harder, with puddles on the side of the route that my mom feared would make us hydroplane. Then bad fog.

Tomorrow, per my suggestion, we will see 'up in the air," the new, highly-acclaimed film with George Clooney. 1/2 price tickets with Visa Signature, whose offer with Fandango ends this month, I think. We have a coupon to the diner near my work, so can have lunch there after. Then I work.. in turns of going out, though, I haven't been in touch with the peeps who I usually go out with; we don't have much in common.

Need to get off this damn schedule and live closer to downtown, then I can meet more similar people. My grandma said jokingly, in a way, that she needed to find me a boy because I'm wasting away! I used to be offended by comments like that, that I'm still unattached, but I definitely have an excuse with my schedule (and it sucks). Guten nacht!