Post by Sylverwolfe on Dec 14, 2014 13:21:40 GMT -7
So it begs the question. Are you guys up to any special plans for Christmas / Hanukkah / Kwanzaa / Yule / *Name your favorite holiday in or around December 21st*?
I have had a hard time getting in to the mood as it were. A great deal has happened in my world in the last year, and very little of it is good. I can fill anyone in on private messages later if they wish to ask, but let's just say things have not gone the way I had hoped and I have been forced to move back with my parents for the time being. My mother loves Christmas, lives for Christmas, can't wait for Christmas. My Late grandmother was the same way, rest her soul. And for three weeks we have been pulling down stuff, decorating the house, moving this and that to get the house all decorated for the big day.
In mid October until the first weekend of November My father and mother took a vacation this year. They went to California, through the Sequoia National forest, Lone Pine, Alabama Hills and so forth, Then to parts of Nevada, driving the whole way. After we were groped at individual points at the airport for various flights; we put our feet down about flying. There is no sense in paying the enormous amounts of money to fly and then get treated like a convicted criminal going to prison to begin his incarceration! We can drive there and sightsee more anyway. As a pup our family vacations were like real-life Griswold family vacations. My mother was Clark Griswold though. She was the one to arrange all the stops, plan all the things and make the reservations. Dad was along for the ride.
But I digress. On the way back home from California, my parents stopped to see my half brother and his family. (He and I have the same mother.) It has easily been 15 years since we last saw them. That is another long story for another day as well. It came up that my half brother wanted to try and get to our house for Christmas. They have a two year old daughter. She was pretty much an unplanned blessing because their other two daughters are 21 and 18 respectively and My brother's wife's father will be with them. I think he lives with them so she can care for him.
I have already had the pleasure of getting one of my niece's bigger presents. The other night, my half brother ordered her a Power Wheels BMW i8 car from Toys 'R' Us. Gosh! That box was huge! I had trouble getting it into the house. And I am impressed at the stuff on that thing. When I was a pup they weren't nearly as decked out. This car can play iTunes over the little radio inside. It has a cup-holder and working headlights!!! I can't wait to see her reaction on Christmas morning!!! It is going to fill up the living room next to the Christmas tree.
But my Older sister found out that our Half brother is coming for Christmas so she and her companion wish to come as well. The last time the four of us were altogether I was still in my teens. At that time, Mom had arranged with Olan Mills photographers to get a family portrait with the four of us together. I must have been 14 or 15. I am 35 this year, so it has been some time with all four of us together.
It has also been some time since we have had a good old fashioned family Christmas. When my grandmother died in 2003, we had one more in her former house before my grand-dad sold it and found a new lady to be my step grandma. My step-grandma is a great lady, we love her very much, so that isn't what is going on. It is just that my step-grandma doesn't care for Christmas in the same way as my previous grandma. We had one at her house and decided we would just celebrate with the immediate family. We had planned one more with my grand-dad before he passed, after Christmas, between Christmas and New Year's of 2011, but he passed away on the 28th of December that year. New Year's eve was a rough day that year. We buried him on New Year's Eve of 2011.
Since 2006, I have either entertained friends at my house or I have just gone to my ex-girlfriend's parents' for Christmas or popped in on my parents. This year is going to be special. Mom's house is "Grandma's House" this Christmas. As of today we finally finished with all the decorating and fixing up the lights 'n' stuff. It will be good.
Do you guys have any special plans?
What did you ask for?
I asked for a Ceramic Christmas Tree which has a light in it and you put these colored plugs in it which light up outside. Anyone who has anyone in their family who is artsy probably knows what I am talking about. My mother had one that an aunt gave her which I always loved to set up when I was a pup. It was when I felt like Christmas was on the way. I would get twitter-pated (excited) about Christmas every year.
Instead of being given one, my mother, who has for the past 10 years, tried to get me one, sent me to a ceramics shop to make my own. I have it and told her to consider it an early present this year. I got to make that over Thanksgiving weekend. It sits on my bookshelf and is going to become my fondest decoration to put out every year.
I asked for some DVD's and World of Warcraft time cards. Among the DVD's is The Guardians of the Galaxy I will see if Santa brings them!
Whee! 100th post!
I have had a hard time getting in to the mood as it were. A great deal has happened in my world in the last year, and very little of it is good. I can fill anyone in on private messages later if they wish to ask, but let's just say things have not gone the way I had hoped and I have been forced to move back with my parents for the time being. My mother loves Christmas, lives for Christmas, can't wait for Christmas. My Late grandmother was the same way, rest her soul. And for three weeks we have been pulling down stuff, decorating the house, moving this and that to get the house all decorated for the big day.
In mid October until the first weekend of November My father and mother took a vacation this year. They went to California, through the Sequoia National forest, Lone Pine, Alabama Hills and so forth, Then to parts of Nevada, driving the whole way. After we were groped at individual points at the airport for various flights; we put our feet down about flying. There is no sense in paying the enormous amounts of money to fly and then get treated like a convicted criminal going to prison to begin his incarceration! We can drive there and sightsee more anyway. As a pup our family vacations were like real-life Griswold family vacations. My mother was Clark Griswold though. She was the one to arrange all the stops, plan all the things and make the reservations. Dad was along for the ride.
But I digress. On the way back home from California, my parents stopped to see my half brother and his family. (He and I have the same mother.) It has easily been 15 years since we last saw them. That is another long story for another day as well. It came up that my half brother wanted to try and get to our house for Christmas. They have a two year old daughter. She was pretty much an unplanned blessing because their other two daughters are 21 and 18 respectively and My brother's wife's father will be with them. I think he lives with them so she can care for him.
I have already had the pleasure of getting one of my niece's bigger presents. The other night, my half brother ordered her a Power Wheels BMW i8 car from Toys 'R' Us. Gosh! That box was huge! I had trouble getting it into the house. And I am impressed at the stuff on that thing. When I was a pup they weren't nearly as decked out. This car can play iTunes over the little radio inside. It has a cup-holder and working headlights!!! I can't wait to see her reaction on Christmas morning!!! It is going to fill up the living room next to the Christmas tree.
But my Older sister found out that our Half brother is coming for Christmas so she and her companion wish to come as well. The last time the four of us were altogether I was still in my teens. At that time, Mom had arranged with Olan Mills photographers to get a family portrait with the four of us together. I must have been 14 or 15. I am 35 this year, so it has been some time with all four of us together.
It has also been some time since we have had a good old fashioned family Christmas. When my grandmother died in 2003, we had one more in her former house before my grand-dad sold it and found a new lady to be my step grandma. My step-grandma is a great lady, we love her very much, so that isn't what is going on. It is just that my step-grandma doesn't care for Christmas in the same way as my previous grandma. We had one at her house and decided we would just celebrate with the immediate family. We had planned one more with my grand-dad before he passed, after Christmas, between Christmas and New Year's of 2011, but he passed away on the 28th of December that year. New Year's eve was a rough day that year. We buried him on New Year's Eve of 2011.
Since 2006, I have either entertained friends at my house or I have just gone to my ex-girlfriend's parents' for Christmas or popped in on my parents. This year is going to be special. Mom's house is "Grandma's House" this Christmas. As of today we finally finished with all the decorating and fixing up the lights 'n' stuff. It will be good.
Do you guys have any special plans?
What did you ask for?
I asked for a Ceramic Christmas Tree which has a light in it and you put these colored plugs in it which light up outside. Anyone who has anyone in their family who is artsy probably knows what I am talking about. My mother had one that an aunt gave her which I always loved to set up when I was a pup. It was when I felt like Christmas was on the way. I would get twitter-pated (excited) about Christmas every year.
Instead of being given one, my mother, who has for the past 10 years, tried to get me one, sent me to a ceramics shop to make my own. I have it and told her to consider it an early present this year. I got to make that over Thanksgiving weekend. It sits on my bookshelf and is going to become my fondest decoration to put out every year.
I asked for some DVD's and World of Warcraft time cards. Among the DVD's is The Guardians of the Galaxy I will see if Santa brings them!
Whee! 100th post!