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Christmas Day
Dec. 25th, 2012 10:23 pmYes, it is Christmas! Christmas night, to be exact, but, all good. I have enjoyed wearing pajamas all day, sleeping in, and taking a 4-hour nap this afternoon.
First, the bad stuff... Mom's sister, Carol, called. Not bad in itself, but, the fact that somehow, Bob and Ginny, Mom's aunt and uncle, who are butthurt over not being invited to Mandie's and Scott's wedding, and who also couldn't be bothered to go to Mandie's senior recital or come to any of our graduation parties... Anyway, they got mentioned again, and it again came up that if Mom apologized or invited them to her and Rich's wedding, everything would be fine.
My response on Facebook is comprehensive and, I think, eloquent enough to copy here...
( Cut because I want this to be mostly a positive entry )
Anyway... I'm a little...overwhelmed...with what Mom got me. In addition to two new pairs of work jeans and assorted other stuff, she also got me a new faux leather jacket with pockets and such. It's...nice. Really nice. And she got me a new watch. A Citizen eco-drive. I still need to figure out how to use it and such. I might use the cheapie but functional Timex I have as a stopwatch for keeping track of my daily walking quotas and such. Rich and Mom both got me Amazon gift cards, which will be more than enough for me to get a new printer/scanner/copier. And maybe an e-book or two.
Yeah, the current printer is slowly dying. The rollers don't grab paper, so, I have to shove paper into the mechanism, or else it reads as empty. And it's persnickety about that, too.
As for what I gave... I got Scott a blue tie, since the list I had said something about blue and green ties. But I didn't get him any old tie, but rather a Ravenclaw tie from ThinkGeek. I got my sister two more Dresden Files books - Proven Guilty and White Knight. For Rich, I got him a copy of John Scalzi's Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades. For Mom, I got her the latest Castle novel, along with 2 gigabytes of RAM for her computer. At least, I hope they're the right RAM. I called up her system information, got the make and model of her motherboard, then punched it into Goggle for compatible RAM assemblies, and found the resultant RAM on Amazon. It should be good to go. And RAM's fairly easy to install. Basically plug-n-play. She's got a 1.2 or 1.3 GHz Pentium chip in there, so, I'm hoping the RAM upgrade (she currently has, I think, just a half a gig, if that) will noticeably improve system performance for her and allow her to surf the web at something approaching a normal speed.
Mandie also gave us all home-knit scarves.
Brigid and Brandon are a bit overwhelmed with all their toys. The cats and birds...are still unwrapping their stuff. I gave Rocky his Santa bag, which had a knit mousie, a ball, and a teddy bear. He loves all three. He had the mousie in his mouth, with a paw on the ball and the other paw on the bear, completely unsure what he wanted to play with first.
Rich...was a bit overwhelmed with everything he got. It's all good. I think he knows we like and want him around here. And that Mom loves him.
( Comics )
Posted at LiveJournal and Dreamwidth
First, the bad stuff... Mom's sister, Carol, called. Not bad in itself, but, the fact that somehow, Bob and Ginny, Mom's aunt and uncle, who are butthurt over not being invited to Mandie's and Scott's wedding, and who also couldn't be bothered to go to Mandie's senior recital or come to any of our graduation parties... Anyway, they got mentioned again, and it again came up that if Mom apologized or invited them to her and Rich's wedding, everything would be fine.
My response on Facebook is comprehensive and, I think, eloquent enough to copy here...
( Cut because I want this to be mostly a positive entry )
Anyway... I'm a little...overwhelmed...with what Mom got me. In addition to two new pairs of work jeans and assorted other stuff, she also got me a new faux leather jacket with pockets and such. It's...nice. Really nice. And she got me a new watch. A Citizen eco-drive. I still need to figure out how to use it and such. I might use the cheapie but functional Timex I have as a stopwatch for keeping track of my daily walking quotas and such. Rich and Mom both got me Amazon gift cards, which will be more than enough for me to get a new printer/scanner/copier. And maybe an e-book or two.
Yeah, the current printer is slowly dying. The rollers don't grab paper, so, I have to shove paper into the mechanism, or else it reads as empty. And it's persnickety about that, too.
As for what I gave... I got Scott a blue tie, since the list I had said something about blue and green ties. But I didn't get him any old tie, but rather a Ravenclaw tie from ThinkGeek. I got my sister two more Dresden Files books - Proven Guilty and White Knight. For Rich, I got him a copy of John Scalzi's Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades. For Mom, I got her the latest Castle novel, along with 2 gigabytes of RAM for her computer. At least, I hope they're the right RAM. I called up her system information, got the make and model of her motherboard, then punched it into Goggle for compatible RAM assemblies, and found the resultant RAM on Amazon. It should be good to go. And RAM's fairly easy to install. Basically plug-n-play. She's got a 1.2 or 1.3 GHz Pentium chip in there, so, I'm hoping the RAM upgrade (she currently has, I think, just a half a gig, if that) will noticeably improve system performance for her and allow her to surf the web at something approaching a normal speed.
Mandie also gave us all home-knit scarves.
Brigid and Brandon are a bit overwhelmed with all their toys. The cats and birds...are still unwrapping their stuff. I gave Rocky his Santa bag, which had a knit mousie, a ball, and a teddy bear. He loves all three. He had the mousie in his mouth, with a paw on the ball and the other paw on the bear, completely unsure what he wanted to play with first.
Rich...was a bit overwhelmed with everything he got. It's all good. I think he knows we like and want him around here. And that Mom loves him.
( Comics )
Posted at LiveJournal and Dreamwidth
