Christmas Memories 2008

- Chimpanzee riding on a Segway!

- Discovering that the DVDs I'd ordered for my parents had arrived at 5:30 PM on Christmas Eve, and I somehow missed the parcel hanging dead center from the door in the front of our house and left it out there overnight.

- My father purchasing new hooks for the Christmas ornaments because he couldn't remember where he packed the hooks away from last year. They're “somewhere” in our basement.

- Unwrapping a box of Rogaine. Trying to tell me something, Ma?

- Discovering that I'd ordered the 1993 version of Heidi when my mom actually wanted the 1937 version because she “relates to Shirley Temple.”

- Asking my dad what he was doing sitting in front of the television watching the Yule Log: “I don't know; your mother put this on!”

- Getting my dad Sands of Iwo Jima, which was a movie he actually wanted, as opposed to last year when I bought him Letters from Iwo Jima by mistake. I make a lot of mistakes where movies from my folks' generation are concerned.

- Hearing my mom yelling at her brother on the phone to turn his phone right side up so she could hear him.

- Finally having time to watch Kabluey, a quirky indy sleeper that was among the 22 DVDs B13 has loaned me over the course of the year. It was the strange tale of a loser who moves in with his sister-in-law to help take care of his nephews while his brother is fighting in Iraq, and ends up with a part-time job as a bizarre pharmaceutical mascot. I'd like to see writer/director/lead actor Scott Prendergast make more movies.

- Taking a nap and dreaming I was at work. So not right.

- Don’t forget Chimpanzee riding on a Segway!

- So much pasta and chicken! So much hot apple pie and fudge ripple ice cream! So much for the gym!

- The way our little tree sparkles:


- Our cat finding a warm spot on the stove nestled between the dishes of pasta and chicken.

- The thin layer of snow that still coated everything even after rain and warmer temperatures, enough to be beautiful without being a messy obstacle. I'm actually glad I was wrong about my White Christmas prediction, although it's more likely that I shifted probability by making that prediction in the first place. I need to learn how to control that ability of mine. Let's see...I predict that I'll buy a house and get a girlfriend in 2009!

- Chimpanzee riding on a Segway!!! I can't stop watching that thing. Or...sort of...dancing...to it.
::hangs head in shame::

Hope everyone had a great holiday and is enjoying this long weekend!