Happenings

Today was the Christmas party for my mom's side. Nothing fancy. Just sandwiches and chips. And about 850 no bake cookies. We had a white elephant gift exchange where everyone passes their gift to the right every time the word "and" is said during a recitation of Twas the Night Before Christmas. It's fun. This year gifts included a pair of emergency underpants, in a little tin. A giant plastic loaf of bread and the present  my brother brought:

An autographed photo of himself.  Winner winner chicken dinner.  My mom brought some sort of iron fish skeleton thing.  One end looks like it might hold a candle, but it won't stand on end.  The end, to me, sort of looked like a trumpet mouthpiece.  I told her I'd buy her Dairy Queen if she could get anyone at the party to blow into it like a trumpet.  She won.  My uncle did it and it was as funny as I thought it would be.  She fed him sort of bull about it being an Aztec flute.  "If you play it you'll have good luck!!!"  We have literally no idea what that thing is, which is what makes it such a great white elephant gift.  So tomorrow I'll have to buy DQ.  Totally worth it. 

 

We broke Grandma out of the hoosegow for the day and she really seemed to enjoy herself.   When she first got to the house we put on the Rockettes, some sort of Christmas special.  She loved it. She said she's actually seen the Rockette's, in person, I think she said at an Andy Williams show.   She thought she was in Port Huron, MI.  She thought my mom and I were in the hospital, even though we were standing right next to her and she put a Band-Aid on her forehead for no reason.  When they took her back to the nursing home she thought they were taking her to the Casino Royale.  She was pretty impressed with that, because she said she knows how expensive those rooms are....She did enjoy herself, though, and I couldn't be happier because next year will most likely be a different story. 

 

Last night we drove around to look at Christmas lights.  A girl from work and I judged the city Christmas Lights Competition.  We had a list of ten houses or so and had to judge them.  It was hard to not give them all a "10", just for effort.  A lot of work went into those displays.  Afterwards, we went out to the park to see it all pimped out, and it was pretty.  Local businesses set up Christmas displays, and some were really clever.  The little train was running and Santa was there, so there were a ton of people out.  It was nice to see so many families out looking at the lights and taking train rides. 

  I have NONE of my Christmas wrapped.  Not one present.  I work tomorrow night 9p-5a, so I figure I'll do it then.  Probably after midnight.  Something to keep me busy. 

 

The boys had turkey and giblets for dinner tonight.  They get that every Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner.  I get a big dinner, so I figure they should, too.  They love it.  Ate it like they were being paid to do it.