Monday, December 26, 2005
Merry Christmas to you. Merry Christmas to you. Merry Christmas dear Jesus, Merry Christmas to you.
I’ve been in Juneau for a few days now, and it’s been a nice little vacation, all around. Here, we will document the highlights.
My first day here was pretty short, I got in around noon, saw the family, did lots of hugging and some catching up, and settled in to the house.
Second day was more exciting, I pretty much just played a lot video games all day (Hey, it’s *my* vacation) but in the evening, I went out with one of my good high school friends and his brother. We played some at his house, and then picked up another high school buddy and hit the bars. Now the neat thing about Juneau, for those of you that don’t live here, is that there is only one high school. Just one, everyone goes to it. So barring some ‘move outs’ and ‘move ins’, there’s a good chance that you know everyone within a certain age group. Everyone. Plus, there’s only a few real bars to hang out in, and there all within spitting distance of each other.
We hit up the first bar, the Imperial, instantly saw some people I recognized, chatted it up for a while, and then strolled off to the next one, where we saw more people we knew and listened to a pretty awful guy play the guitar while his buddy hit a bucket with some sticks. That’s classy stuff, for you non-Alaskans out there. But yeah, great time catching up with old friends and seeing people and having a durn good time all around.
Next night was Christmas eeeeeve, so we got some things ready, ate some food (I made Krub again), and then hit up midnight mass. A nice service, punctuated by some excellent choir directing by…MY MOM…and excellent singing by…MY DAD…and…MY SISTER. Saw some more people I knew, shook some hands, came home, sat around the tree and chatted for a little while, and then wonked out something fierce.
Next day…was…CHRISTMAS! Woooo! Got some awesome things, including a food processor, for my budding food-preparation hobby, and this really cool game with magnets called polarity. I’ll throw up some pictures of it later, but it’s a lot of fun to play with. Also some interesting books, games…stuff…things, you know. Christmas stuff! A lot of it has been eaten already. Heh.
J(5) and I previously exchanged gifts, and she wins the prize this year for BEST WRAPPING JOB EVER. She gave me a knife set, but she wrapped them all individually and hid them all over the house, and each of them had a note telling me where the next one was hidden. One would be ‘this is my favorite place in the house’, and I’d go to the shower, and then it would say, ‘the most comfortable thing I own’, and the next one would be in her robe, and on and on and on. It was a ton of fun to do.
My favorite given gift this year is that I got myself photographed by a professional photography troupe at my Tae Kwon Do school doing various action kicks, punches, and the like. I’ve scanned the pictures, so I can post them in a second (once I work on putting this up on the web) and we’ll see how they look, but some of you, especially family members, can look forward to receiving some of them in the mail, once I figure out what your snail mail addresses are, and how to send these things without them getting all wonked up in the mail.
After the bonanza of the present opening, we did another of our little Christmas traditions and did up a puzzle. We just finished it today, it was a pretty tricky one. But at any given time, there’s usually a couple people working on it, so the progress is pretty steady. It’s a fun little tradition.
Today, less excitement. I cleaned out my dad’s car (that was my present to him. His vehicle is a bloody mess. *Was* a bloody mess, rather) and played some games. It’s a low-key, low energy time. Just fine by me.
Upcoming stuff? Not much. Just planning to do some of my favorite hobbies, rest up for my nice little vacation week, and then enjoy a life completely free of any traces of school. That, my friends, is my Christmas present to myself.
-N
I’ve been in Juneau for a few days now, and it’s been a nice little vacation, all around. Here, we will document the highlights.
My first day here was pretty short, I got in around noon, saw the family, did lots of hugging and some catching up, and settled in to the house.
Second day was more exciting, I pretty much just played a lot video games all day (Hey, it’s *my* vacation) but in the evening, I went out with one of my good high school friends and his brother. We played some at his house, and then picked up another high school buddy and hit the bars. Now the neat thing about Juneau, for those of you that don’t live here, is that there is only one high school. Just one, everyone goes to it. So barring some ‘move outs’ and ‘move ins’, there’s a good chance that you know everyone within a certain age group. Everyone. Plus, there’s only a few real bars to hang out in, and there all within spitting distance of each other.
We hit up the first bar, the Imperial, instantly saw some people I recognized, chatted it up for a while, and then strolled off to the next one, where we saw more people we knew and listened to a pretty awful guy play the guitar while his buddy hit a bucket with some sticks. That’s classy stuff, for you non-Alaskans out there. But yeah, great time catching up with old friends and seeing people and having a durn good time all around.
Next night was Christmas eeeeeve, so we got some things ready, ate some food (I made Krub again), and then hit up midnight mass. A nice service, punctuated by some excellent choir directing by…MY MOM…and excellent singing by…MY DAD…and…MY SISTER. Saw some more people I knew, shook some hands, came home, sat around the tree and chatted for a little while, and then wonked out something fierce.
Next day…was…CHRISTMAS! Woooo! Got some awesome things, including a food processor, for my budding food-preparation hobby, and this really cool game with magnets called polarity. I’ll throw up some pictures of it later, but it’s a lot of fun to play with. Also some interesting books, games…stuff…things, you know. Christmas stuff! A lot of it has been eaten already. Heh.
J(5) and I previously exchanged gifts, and she wins the prize this year for BEST WRAPPING JOB EVER. She gave me a knife set, but she wrapped them all individually and hid them all over the house, and each of them had a note telling me where the next one was hidden. One would be ‘this is my favorite place in the house’, and I’d go to the shower, and then it would say, ‘the most comfortable thing I own’, and the next one would be in her robe, and on and on and on. It was a ton of fun to do.
My favorite given gift this year is that I got myself photographed by a professional photography troupe at my Tae Kwon Do school doing various action kicks, punches, and the like. I’ve scanned the pictures, so I can post them in a second (once I work on putting this up on the web) and we’ll see how they look, but some of you, especially family members, can look forward to receiving some of them in the mail, once I figure out what your snail mail addresses are, and how to send these things without them getting all wonked up in the mail.
After the bonanza of the present opening, we did another of our little Christmas traditions and did up a puzzle. We just finished it today, it was a pretty tricky one. But at any given time, there’s usually a couple people working on it, so the progress is pretty steady. It’s a fun little tradition.
Today, less excitement. I cleaned out my dad’s car (that was my present to him. His vehicle is a bloody mess. *Was* a bloody mess, rather) and played some games. It’s a low-key, low energy time. Just fine by me.
Upcoming stuff? Not much. Just planning to do some of my favorite hobbies, rest up for my nice little vacation week, and then enjoy a life completely free of any traces of school. That, my friends, is my Christmas present to myself.
-N
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