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onefixedstar) wrote2003-12-28 01:38 pm
onefixedstar) wrote2003-12-28 01:38 pm
Holidays
The holidays are winding down. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
semiotic_trader and a_just_society have departed for home and other family visits respectively, steninja is leaving tomorrow morning to visit her boyfriend's family for a couple of days, and I'm getting ready to return to my apartment to make sure it's still standing and to tackle my pile of work before heading to Ottawa for New Year's Eve.
Christmas this year was the typical warm and uneventful affair: family, food, gifts, and games (poker and Scattergories). Christmas morning was the usual free-for-all. One would think that having reached a point where the youngest person in the household is now eighteen and legally adult, Christmas morning would be a somewhat more sedate and civilized affair than when we were children. It's not. We were all woken at the ridiculous hour of 7:00 whether we wanted to be or not (the blame for this rests squarely on my grandparents, who came over to join us for Christmas morning), and then we all tramped down to the living room where we tore open our presents as quickly as my mother could hand them out. The only different between now and when we were children is that when we were children, we were sent to bed early on Christmas Eve and thus were fairly well rested when 7:00 rolled around. Now that we're older, that's no longer the case. This year it was about 2:00am before we got to sleep, thanks in large part to a particular sister of mine who couldn't sleep and consequently decided that the rest of us shouldn't sleep either. It was actually all quite amusing until 7:00 came.
I actually braved the Boxing Day sales the next morning with two of my siblings in search of a DVD player. Our early morning excursion was all for naught--the line up was out the door and we refused to wait--but by evening things had calmed down and I was able to snag a player at FutureShop, which miraculously still had some in stock. So now I'll be able to watch DVDs on my television rather than my tiny (but very thin) LCD monitor, and hold that Buffy marathon that I promised to a friend of mine.
semiotic_trader and a_just_society have departed for home and other family visits respectively, steninja is leaving tomorrow morning to visit her boyfriend's family for a couple of days, and I'm getting ready to return to my apartment to make sure it's still standing and to tackle my pile of work before heading to Ottawa for New Year's Eve.Christmas this year was the typical warm and uneventful affair: family, food, gifts, and games (poker and Scattergories). Christmas morning was the usual free-for-all. One would think that having reached a point where the youngest person in the household is now eighteen and legally adult, Christmas morning would be a somewhat more sedate and civilized affair than when we were children. It's not. We were all woken at the ridiculous hour of 7:00 whether we wanted to be or not (the blame for this rests squarely on my grandparents, who came over to join us for Christmas morning), and then we all tramped down to the living room where we tore open our presents as quickly as my mother could hand them out. The only different between now and when we were children is that when we were children, we were sent to bed early on Christmas Eve and thus were fairly well rested when 7:00 rolled around. Now that we're older, that's no longer the case. This year it was about 2:00am before we got to sleep, thanks in large part to a particular sister of mine who couldn't sleep and consequently decided that the rest of us shouldn't sleep either. It was actually all quite amusing until 7:00 came.
I actually braved the Boxing Day sales the next morning with two of my siblings in search of a DVD player. Our early morning excursion was all for naught--the line up was out the door and we refused to wait--but by evening things had calmed down and I was able to snag a player at FutureShop, which miraculously still had some in stock. So now I'll be able to watch DVDs on my television rather than my tiny (but very thin) LCD monitor, and hold that Buffy marathon that I promised to a friend of mine.
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Glad you found a DVD player that fit your budget... more movies ahoy!