Necessary Squeals

I will attempt to restrain myself from expressing my utter glee merely in somewhat utter gibberish, or even just pointless exit waves. This Christmas was epic. I got up at 7, after going to bed at around midnight looking at pictures with Grandma. I was the only one up, did the dishes and read The Tales of Beetle the Bard and that Foxtrot comic. I had received a decent amount of books and movies and even a letter from a very good friend, the slightly non-sequitor, singing, laughing flute player, Jenners. So as of late, I don't think I will hardly ever get bored. What with the Office (Season 4), Calvin and Hobbes (Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons), Foxtrot (Orlando Bloom Has Ruined Everything), The Tales of Beetle The Bard, Jumper, Goundhog Day, Year of the Dog, Leatherheads and Mr. Bean. And then of course, its December 25.

Getting up at 7 turned out to be somewhat pointless, as I waited for nearly 3 hours till my dad finally woke up. In my stocking, I got some stuff, one of them being the soundtrack for the motion picture Stranger Than Fiction. It's pretty awesome.

A breakfast of pancakes, after my mom, brother and grandma came 'round. I was quite impatient, and yet not really. But then of course we had to take pictures. Zach is known for not liking pictures with him in them, and getting him to actually smile in one is a pretty large feat. My dad likes to.. well, sort of "make fun of" his video game obsessions, so my dad tried a technique so dad-like it almost hurts (please disregard my phrases like that- its just a habit. No, they did not inflict pain).

My dad looks over at Zach, and says in his famous joking voice, "Just think about video games!" I glance back at Zach and he immediately starts to grin. Then we all start cracking up.

Good times.

I've had this almost obsesssion with CD's, and I sure wasn't disappointed. Probably the best thing was, however, me getting a cell phone and having a picture of Erez and Oren opening up the big Toblerone I gave 'em on the cellphone already. Yeah. That was awesome. I got some socks as well and Zach somehow got me an Itunes gift card. He got a ton of gaming stuff. Keyboard, mouse, etc.

We also got a bunch of (sigh) French books. But I mean, I'm not that annoyed or whatever. In fact, yeah its pretty cool. It's just.... just let me complain a tiny bit. Or yeah. And also, Omi gave me and my mom a copy of Twilight, so now maybe my mom will read that. She read the back and said it seemed "interesting" in a good way. So, whatever.

We took a short walk along Lake Geneva, and it was blusterly cold. The waves were epically crashing over the stone barrier, the wind almost giving you a headache. We got hot chocolate in this place and drove home again.

And then I remembered how my mom said the non-French speakers would be like.... good.... after Christmas. So now, when I go back to school I guess I should feel pretty confident. And yeah I am much better I think. At French. Than when I started. So.. yeah. But. Ugh. School. Eh... Whatever.

Yeah. Pretty frickin' awesome. Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. All that good stuff.