It's Christmas Time Pretty Baby
Less than a week now. Bridget and I are hurriedly moving into our new place and trying to shop for everyone at the same time. Which can be difficult with only one car. Or truck, as we have her dad's at the moment, and he is fixing our car. As I understand it, the only thing left now is fixing the rear quarter panel and putting in a new tail light. The trunk opens and closes, the bumper is reattached, all good stuff.
Back to Christmas. This is the first year that I have really, absolutely NO idea what I want for Christmas. Perhaps it's the onset of real adulthood, but in previous years there was always some THING I could point to and say "Yeah, that." It might have been a book, or books, or a video game, or... I don't know, SOMETHING.
This year... I almost feel like saying, and truly meaning, "Nothing."
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We went to two Christmas parties this weekend, one in Lafayette and one in Lake Charles. The Lafayette one was at my friend Amanda's house, and was a lot of fun. It had been a while since I'd seen or some of my other friends, and the people that I didn't know were really cool, as well. Lots of funny conversations, some great sillyness during the white elephant exchange... good times.
The Lake Charles party was, of course, at Daisy and Joe's. We hung around, talked, ate dinner, played Hot Death UNO, and did the white elephant thing.
Anyone remember a few years back for Chrostmas I got this little gun that shot foam discs and made noises? Or at least know the type of gun I'm talking about?
Daisy's gift in the exchange was two guns and 175 of the discs. And I got it. And then, 5 mintes later, somebody got ANOTHER one. Four guns, 350 rounds (literally).
We discussed random violence, but not that much really occurred. Mostly we tried shotting them into a gift bag from about 10 feet away. Each shot is unique, so it can be difficult to make any of them. I don't think anyone got more than 1 shot out of 12 into the bag.
And then we drove home so Bridget could go to work, leaving the other revelers to their... reveling.
A great weekend.
3 comments:
That sounds like lots of fun...Now what the heck's a white elephant exchange?
Yeah, what is a white elephant? Pink elephant I'm familiar with.
And those guns, if they're what I'm thinking of, are great cat toys.
Those guns are the best! I have two somewhere. We'll have to get together for an all-out battle sometime. We used to have classic fights with those at LSMSA.
I was sad to miss Joe and Daisy's, but it would have been a whirlwind trip, as Seth had to be back early Monday for a doctors appointment, and we had somewhere to be (I think) Saturday.
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