Nothing That Important to Say...

Hey all! To be honest, I'm really just posting something for the sake of posting something. I hadn't put anything new up in ages so I thought I might as well...

In my family, Christmas is always about being with family. All the time. *sigh* My Uncle Steve and Aunt Laura were going to spend Christmas with his family this year so they came down from San Jose the weekend before Christmas. My aunts seemingly can't live without having every moment planned out (love you guys!!) so, while all the "big boys" got to go play paintball, the women and children were left to the ballet. The six year old son of one of my grandmother's co-workers is in a ballet troupe and so we went to support him. They preformed the Nutcracker (of course) at the Fine Arts Center at Victoria Gardens Mall. The most entertaining part of the day was probably the fact that there was a life-size Shakespeare sitting on a bench outside the theatre. All of my cousins proceeded to climb atop him and pose for pictures. Sacrilege!



From left to right: Erin, Nora, Jessica, Coalson, and Egan (Zach was causing trouble elsewhere)

The Tuesday before Christmas Eve, Mandy held a Christmas Party at her home. It was interesting, to say the least. Fortunately, we were FINALLY able to get a decent picture of everyone looking at the camera with a straight face!

 

From left to right: Ryan, Kaitlyn, Greg, Maggie, Robert, Jami, Daniel, Mandy, Meaghan

So... yeah. Aside from all of the incredibly long rants I have about the craziness of Christmas in general, particularly in my family, (which I will not bore you with at present) that's all folks.

And, of course, another lame youtube video:

A Few Quick Videos

Hey all! Just thought you might want some lame videos to take up your abundance of time over Christmas Break! :)Enjoy the pure annoyance...









And... just in case you've never been exposed to Achmed THE Dead Terrorist, here you go (disclaimer: please excuse the brief language!):



And Jingle Bombs:

Reading Log Rant

Alright, just to let everyone know, I positively ABHOR reading logs!!! They are a complete waste of time and serve no other purpose other than to pester and annoy. Do these teachers really expect us to log a book WHILE we're reading?! Honestly, you'd think that they would encourage us to "get into the book" and read as much as possible, not be hindered by stopping every 20-25 pages to find a quote and write about how very important to the plot it is!! hmph. As you've probably already guessed, I'm being forced to complete reading logs. -.- For English we have to read and log a best seller and then write a timed essay about the theme or character develpoment or another silly thing that anyone with a brain can generally understand just from reading the book sleeve. Oh yeah, did I mention that I have to read Eragon? The never-ever-ever-readitagain type of book that happens to be 550 pages and one of the only best sellers on my shelf. (The other option was Angels & Demons by Dan Brown) I've read them both before which makes LOGGING them every 20 pages interminable. And this timed essay/due date for logs is this Friday. I haven't even started to re-read either. *sigh* Alright so, the entire point of this post was to a) keep me from throwing a rather large hard-covered book at someone's head, b) help me procrastinate even more, and c) get a post out there so that I'll have posted in the last 2 weeks. *another sigh* Curses be upon all reading logs!