on the worst day of christmas, my true love gave to me: blowing chunks in a bowl in the van.

Yep, this may qualify as the worst Christmas ever. Not because it was necessarily awful or something, or I hate the new house, and uncle Steve didn't even get in a fight with anyone; no, I just got fever chills after Christmas dinner (about 3 pm), tried to sleep it off for two hours, and then puked in the car on the way home. Awesome. I felt good for about ten minutes after that, and then you feel like shit again, and my back was killing me, and my mouth has this awful taste in it though the pain's gone away, and there really isn't anything I want to eat. Bleeeeh.

Also, this totally means I have to figure out how long my last record of not-puking is. I have a pretty solid gag reflex and I can't for the life of me remember the last time I vomited. It's been at least three years. Bleh. (And now I would trot out my list of synonyms for puke, a la 2095, but I really don't feel like it.)

I'm kind of excited about some of the stuff I got, though. Laura's bf, James, got me this really sweet lamp, and then she got me some other decoration-type stuff for my room. Mom got me galoshes (yaaaaay) so now I have shoes to wear on The Campus of Many Puddles. PLUS she and dad got me Pushing Daisies season 1 and Diagnosis Murder seasons 1-3! ROCK ON.

And, since I didn't really do a special Christmas post, I think I'm going to do the twelve days thing again. That was fun.

So, on the first day of Christmas, LJ gave to me: Darlene Love singing "Christmas (Baby)" "...(please come home)"

On the second day of Christmas, LJ gave to me: a very mod-art Christmas and Darlene Love singing "Christmas (Baby)".

on the worst day of christmas, my true love gave to me: blowing chunks in a bowl in the van.

Yep, this may qualify as the worst Christmas ever. Not because it was necessarily awful or something, or I hate the new house, and uncle Steve didn't even get in a fight with anyone; no, I just got fever chills after Christmas dinner (about 3 pm), tried to sleep it off for two hours, and then puked in the car on the way home. Awesome. I felt good for about ten minutes after that, and then you feel like shit again, and my back was killing me, and my mouth has this awful taste in it though the pain's gone away, and there really isn't anything I want to eat. Bleeeeh.

Also, this totally means I have to figure out how long my last record of not-puking is. I have a pretty solid gag reflex and I can't for the life of me remember the last time I vomited. It's been at least three years. Bleh. (And now I would trot out my list of synonyms for puke, a la 2095, but I really don't feel like it.)

I'm kind of excited about some of the stuff I got, though. Laura's bf, James, got me this really sweet lamp, and then she got me some other decoration-type stuff for my room. Mom got me galoshes (yaaaaay) so now I have shoes to wear on The Campus of Many Puddles. PLUS she and dad got me Pushing Daisies season 1 and Diagnosis Murder seasons 1-3! ROCK ON.

And, since I didn't really do a special Christmas post, I think I'm going to do the twelve days thing again. That was fun.

So, on the first day of Christmas, LJ gave to me: Darlene Love singing "Christmas (Baby)" "...(please come home)"

On the second day of Christmas, LJ gave to me: a very mod-art Christmas and Darlene Love singing "Christmas (Baby)".

the list

Dad had me run out to the store to get supplies for chex mix, and ugghhhh I feel like crap again. I was hungry and grabbed a cookie on my way out, and now I'm not really interested in eating. Everything ends up tasting like stomach acid. :C Although I am really craving shrimp or sushi or something equally delish at the moment... (And by "at the moment" I mean "since I came home from Hawaii".)

Anyway, the list of things under the tree for me... My parents said they were going to keep it small since we decided to MOVE all of a sudden this year (seriously... still weird) and that our gifts would mostly be the house and new furniture and those sort of things. Buuuut I guess they had a little too much fun buying stuff.

Both mom and dad got Laura dvds of "A Christmas Story"... greaaaat. Now she can watch it all the time. That movie really annoys me, for some reason.

Probably one of my favorite gifts was a lamp and lampshade that James got for me... it's so flipping awesome. The shade is this burnt-orange-silk looking material with a brown damask pattern on it. Laura picked it out but seriously James whatthehellit'ssocool. Laura also got me this antique wooden stamp that used to be used for printing wallpapers, and an tibetan-looking chime, and a set of tibetan prayer flags.

I made Laura a scarlet-and-gray pillow, and now I feel bad that it was kind of cheap because she and James' gifts are so awesome... =/ But otherwise I didn't really know what to get her and I know she likes to spend. So, I dunno.

Otherwise:
--Pushing Daisies Season 1 (!!!!!! I didn't put this on my wishlist because I was going to buy it myself, but YAY! Also, I need to remember to buy mom The Big Bang Theory for her birthday gift.)
--DIAGNOSIS MURDER SEASONS 1-3 OMG YAY. I DID NOT EVEN KNOW THEY MADE THEM PAST THE FIRST SEASON, WOO-WOO
--Galoshes! Unexpected but particularly useful on UD's puddle of a campus.
--underwear... you can never have enough.
--"dark blue" Lindt truffles (milk chocolate outside with dark chocolate inside)
--waffle house moneys!
--a "one minute organizer" book... strangely the only book
--SpongeBob Christmas Special DVD
--seat covers for my car
--a fuzzy and warm Dayton beanie
--chapstick
--advil
--UD socks
--gloves
--orange tictacs
--my sister's old athletic iPod nano strap... stained blue by a backpack-highlighter leak, I am sure. I am also worried I will be sweating blue or stained blue myself. (I also had to restrain from making "I BLUE MYSELF!" jokes, as no one in my family watches Arrested Development.)
--TWO OF MY DAD'S ANTIQUE CAMERAS OMG THEY ARE SO COOL. One I think is maybe just a pin-hole, but the other one is the type where you flip the front out and it has this accordion-type thing behind the lens... SO COOL.
--a really wicked tin-covered wooden side-table for my room. It's made out of recovered Indian furniture... It's wicked. Not as cool as the velvet-and-polished-tin-stool from Europe that I wanted, buuuut significantly cheaper. And probably looks more well-traveled because it is older, and it looks a little grungier (read: oxidized).

I got a piece of pizza down, no trouble, but I still can't get rid of this taste in my mouth... And my head kind of hurts. I'm not as tired, though, which is excellent. I mean, I got at least 12 hours of sleep last night, that's rather excessive.

the list

Dad had me run out to the store to get supplies for chex mix, and ugghhhh I feel like crap again. I was hungry and grabbed a cookie on my way out, and now I'm not really interested in eating. Everything ends up tasting like stomach acid. :C Although I am really craving shrimp or sushi or something equally delish at the moment... (And by "at the moment" I mean "since I came home from Hawaii".)

Anyway, the list of things under the tree for me... My parents said they were going to keep it small since we decided to MOVE all of a sudden this year (seriously... still weird) and that our gifts would mostly be the house and new furniture and those sort of things. Buuuut I guess they had a little too much fun buying stuff.

Both mom and dad got Laura dvds of "A Christmas Story"... greaaaat. Now she can watch it all the time. That movie really annoys me, for some reason.

Probably one of my favorite gifts was a lamp and lampshade that James got for me... it's so flipping awesome. The shade is this burnt-orange-silk looking material with a brown damask pattern on it. Laura picked it out but seriously James whatthehellit'ssocool. Laura also got me this antique wooden stamp that used to be used for printing wallpapers, and an tibetan-looking chime, and a set of tibetan prayer flags.

I made Laura a scarlet-and-gray pillow, and now I feel bad that it was kind of cheap because she and James' gifts are so awesome... =/ But otherwise I didn't really know what to get her and I know she likes to spend. So, I dunno.

Otherwise:
--Pushing Daisies Season 1 (!!!!!! I didn't put this on my wishlist because I was going to buy it myself, but YAY! Also, I need to remember to buy mom The Big Bang Theory for her birthday gift.)
--DIAGNOSIS MURDER SEASONS 1-3 OMG YAY. I DID NOT EVEN KNOW THEY MADE THEM PAST THE FIRST SEASON, WOO-WOO
--Galoshes! Unexpected but particularly useful on UD's puddle of a campus.
--underwear... you can never have enough.
--"dark blue" Lindt truffles (milk chocolate outside with dark chocolate inside)
--waffle house moneys!
--a "one minute organizer" book... strangely the only book
--SpongeBob Christmas Special DVD
--seat covers for my car
--a fuzzy and warm Dayton beanie
--chapstick
--advil
--UD socks
--gloves
--orange tictacs
--my sister's old athletic iPod nano strap... stained blue by a backpack-highlighter leak, I am sure. I am also worried I will be sweating blue or stained blue myself. (I also had to restrain from making "I BLUE MYSELF!" jokes, as no one in my family watches Arrested Development.)
--TWO OF MY DAD'S ANTIQUE CAMERAS OMG THEY ARE SO COOL. One I think is maybe just a pin-hole, but the other one is the type where you flip the front out and it has this accordion-type thing behind the lens... SO COOL.
--a really wicked tin-covered wooden side-table for my room. It's made out of recovered Indian furniture... It's wicked. Not as cool as the velvet-and-polished-tin-stool from Europe that I wanted, buuuut significantly cheaper. And probably looks more well-traveled because it is older, and it looks a little grungier (read: oxidized).

I got a piece of pizza down, no trouble, but I still can't get rid of this taste in my mouth... And my head kind of hurts. I'm not as tired, though, which is excellent. I mean, I got at least 12 hours of sleep last night, that's rather excessive.