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Well, Christmas is over and while I actually enjoyed the holiday season this year, I’m kind of glad it’s over. I don’t feel obligated to do anything or be anywhere outside of the ordinary anymore. Not like I could be anyway. I’m stuck at home without my car. I needed to clean the house anyway.

We spent half of Christmas day at my grammas house, eating too much delicious ham and making fun of family members. As my younger cousins get older, they become so much more tolerable. Most of them, at least. My uncles just grow more and more obnoxious with age. I can’t even stand to be around them anymore. They’re nothing alike, but still completely intolerable. They’re also hell bent on making my grandmother feel like shit, which pisses me off to no end. Everything she does for them and they have no respect nor appreciation for it.

The second half of Christmas was spent driving to and hanging out in Ocean Springs, MS at Gary’s mom’s house. We had a bonfire and drank some. I woke up the next day feeling like crap. I made it through the ride home, a visit at grammas with her and my uncle (see above), and a trip to Wal-Mart to exchange gifts we got from there. Goodbye, tacky Navajo-looking flannel sheets, hello new shiny carafe coffee pot. Hey, I warned her. I asked her to borrow some flannel sheets until I bought some since it’s fucking cold in my house and my cotton ones hurt when I get into bed. She said “Hey, that’s what I’ll get you for Christmas.” I said, “Please PLEASE don’t buy me sheets. I like to pick my own.” Guess what she picked out for me? Yeah, really. Sheets. Ugly ones. Her redeeming factor is that she got me a sweet cake plate/punch bowl combo. I really needed a cake plate. Not so much a punch bowl, but Gary’s excited to be making Jello in it. >_<

For New Year’s Eve, I think we will be going back to Gary’s mom’s for another bonfire. This time we will be more prepared and it will be more fun times. I think it won’t be below freezing that night either. Though, it would be nice for it to snow. It’s been five years. Also, this is the first year I think Seth is actually going to remember the holiday season, so it would be nice if it was super memorable. That may sound silly, but it just DOESN’T snow here. We are freezing our asses off when it’s 50 degrees. Snow is a special event. To you it may be icky nastiness that traps you in your house, but here it’s a magical blanket that falls from the sky and sticks in our mind forever.

I need to take more photos. I feel like I’m slacking. Also, why would anyone not like Martha Stewart?!

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Today was the downtown Christmas Parade. Only Gary, Seth and I were going to go, but I talked to Tiffy online right before I was about to get off and dry my hair to leave. So I got to go kidnap her and bring her with us. Seth seemed to have more fun than he has at other parades. He used to just sit there and stare with a blank look on his face. This time he seemed at least slightly excited. It was crazy how many parade cups he got, though.

There weren’t as many floats as there have been before. Less marching bands, too. I could seriously watch marching bands for hours and hours and hours. I’ll attach some photos of the parade at the end of this post. That will include a band director in a tight silver costume dancing right along with the band’s dance team. Hilarious. He was definitely the star of the parade.

it was good to actually get to spend more than a few minutes with Tiffy, too. Over the past few years, I’ve seen her a couple of times, but I don’t ever get to stay around long. Since it was a parade and Seth was there, we didn’t really get to hang out much, but it was still nice. She lives nearby, too, so that’s even better. It’s good timing because I’ve been feeling really lonely lately outside of Gary and Seth.

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Seth had to stay home from school again today because of coughing all night long. I took him to the doctor and this time, the doctor put him on allergy medicine. She says he’s probably allergic to our cats, since there’s not really any other things he could be allergic to in the house. She didn’t want to do an allergy test on him since he’s so young. I have no idea what an allergy test consists of that’s so terrible. That would suck so bad if he is allergic, but at least there is medicine for it. I’d die if I had to get rid of my cats. The way the doctor looked at me, you’d think it was a crime that my cats are *gasp* inside.

I talked to Jamie today and I think we have our Christmas Day plans halfway together. I have to go to grammas, it’s just a part of Christmas. I won’t be there for long because of my uncle’s bullshit. I don’t want to be surrounded by that for Christmas. Not to mention my other uncle, who lives in CA will be there, and he’s usually just a dick to everyone and makes people uncomfortable. Gary’s probably not going to go at all. He’s just going to go straight to his mom’s house. After visiting with my grandma, Jamie and I (at the very least; Haley may go. That’s a story for another day) will leave for Gary’s mom’s house. We’re hoping to have a bonfire there with some celebration, us-style.