The Family Day.

Well lets see, I should probably give a short overview of the last view days lest I feel guilty.

Dad has taken off the last two days, so that’s been a bit weird. It kind of throws our whole ‘mental schedule’ for a loop. ‘Dads home at night, and during the day on weekends…so why the heck is it Thursday and Dads home?’ Ha, we hate the middle of the week feeling like the weekend.

But we are spoiled brats after all.

So Dads been home, and we’ve been doing ‘Christmas’ things non stop.

Today is the actual ‘Family Christmas’, which means this is the day that Mum and Dad give out their gifts. We’ve already opened a few presents, but Mom never lets us poen all of them at once so we’ve got more to go. She likes to ‘spread’ them out as I’ve mentioned before, that’s what she says at least. I don’t know though, she might just enjoy torturing us, I’m not sure.

Heh.

So far my favorite thing I’ve gotten is a Fossil watch with a smashing apple green band. Seriously, its so classy that when I tried it on I thought ‘Yeah Grace Kelly had nothing on me.’ Ha, yes. I’ve gotten really weird/random stuff this year though…but fun things I must say. Example: Grapefruit tea, pillows for my room (They’re NICE pillows, NICE pillows. I’m drooling over them as I type.), a watch, two small jeweled boxes, gift cards for Clinque, a collection of short stories by Leo Tolstoy (I wonder who would have gotten me that. HA.), a couple of Childrens books I loved when I was a kid, my own copies that is, the movie ‘Bandits’(Ha! That little Emily…) geez, I can’t remember what else…just a bunch of completely random things. And like I said we’re not even done yet, and I haven’t exchanged gifts with friends yet either.

Weird Weird Weird.

Yup, so it’s the family Christmas…and right now I’m on the computer writing nonsense! Well Mum, Dad, and Seth have abandoned us though, so I should feel to guilty. They’re up town buying Seth some ‘shoes’. What kind of shoes I have no idea, but he needs some I guess. Why did they wait so long? I don’t know the answer to that one either.

Seths can’t come with us to the lakes this year though, because of his stupid job. *sigh* So he works on Christmas eve and then would have to be alone all day if his friend Jerry hadn’t invited him to come have Christmas with him and his family. The thought of Seth being alone all day on Christmas makes me so sad…thank you Jerry.

We’re going to be up at ‘The Lakes’ like I said. We go every year…

…Ha! Niles ranting in the living room next to me right now, he wants them to get home so badly heres what he just said: “What are the stuck in traffic? Geez!”.

Poor kid, he just wants to open the rest of his damn presents.

Anyways, like I was saying every year we go up to Okaboji. It’s a lake city, and its where my Moms family used to all have summer homes at. We stay at a resort, swim in the pool, talk, open gifts, drink, play cards, go bowling, play racket ball, eat out…all that fun stuff. My Mom’s family is cool, she has five older brothers so we kids get to enjoy five uncles who are all pretty fun guys. I’m pretty fond of most of my cousins as well, except for Maddie and Susan. They are girls who are exactly my age and even though we used to have GREAT times together and I used to adore them, we’re now completely different from each other and I feel pressured to talk to them the whole time and it bothers me. Ah well. We’ll still have a good time.

Then on Sunday we head over to Britt to spend the afternoon with my dad’s family and get their Christmas out of the way. How do I think that will go? *cough* No comment.

Oh, and two other random facts. Lake Okaboji (AKA ‘Spirit Lake) is the place of my birth. So every Christmas I get to drive by the ‘Sprit Lake Hospital ‘ and think ‘So this is where it started for me eh? Hmmmm.’

Second fact, they have tennis courts at the resort. The girls, and myself to some extent…we’re beside ourselves with pleasure. Lets just say the girls are freaking out and I’m excited too.