I forgot to mention something from Christmas Eve….
We went out to drop off presents at our friends’ houses. We do this every year, and have done so for the last, oh, 3 years or so.
Some friends whom we don’t often see are Al and Alison. They have a new baby (born April of last year), who requires a lot of extra care (she was very preemie and has an underdeveloped immune system, I guess).
Anyway, we do see them at Christmas because we go by there on Dec. 24 to drop off their presents. This year, they told us that, when 4:30 rolled around and they hadn’t heard from us, they started to worry. They had the baby out (last year she was too young for company and hadn’t left the house much yet, despite being 8 months old), and she was crawling and walking around and poking at stuff and being, well, a twenty-month old baby, I suppose.
But I was touched by the fact they wondered if we were coming. I thought it showed that we’ve now established a holiday tradition with our friends– a tradition that, maybe, they count on, from us. I like that. It makes me feel good and happy about things.
A suggestion from that I’m taking:
Between now and the end of the year, if you want to defriend me, you can do so without any drama on my part. If you want me to defriend you, you can post a comment here and I will do so– again, without any drama.
Now, this is not to say that I typically have any drama or angst over friending/defriending. In fact, there’s been only one person I really wanted to re-friend me cause I kept wanting to comment to her, but never could.
But if you ever worried that dropping would make me feel bad, you can do so right now, before the end of the year, and you can be sure that I won’t feel bad about it; I won’t be upset if you ask me to defriend you, either.
Consider it a winter airing out of your Friends list.
Another bit of not-really-spoilerish fun from John:
“The big, total surprise in the movie was that Sam is straight!”
Just listed a bunch of PC Games on EBay tonight. Finally getting rid of the whole Baldur’s Gate series (I recently bought BG for Mac anyway). Three of the games are brand new– I never even got to play them. In some ways, I think that was a kind of addiction for me– buying the games, even if I could never play them.
I’m also watching an auction for the MP3 adapter for the Sony Clie– I’m hoping it sells well; I’m planning on listing mine after its auction closes, so I know what to ask for it.
In loosely-related news: I cannot beat Jecht in FFX. I thought I was doing well today, but then he wiped out everyone with two sword hits, and nobody really had a chance (for some reason, Auron– who wasn’t petrified– wasn’t moving). Ah, well. I’ll try more tomorrow, after the root canal. I suspect I will be uninterested in doing much after that. What a bummer.
FFX-2 is kind of cool, though I have to re-orient my thinking for it. It’s definitely a girl’s game– a girlpower game, really. Think FFX meets Charlie’s Angels meets Barbie’s Dress-Up Adventure, meets getting together with your girlfriends and singing to pop music. Yes, a major component of this game is what outfit are the characters wearing. I think it’s neat and fun… but it’s definitely a more feminine style of play.
Also, I am sure the cosplayers are very excited and happy about the Garment Grid.
But…. Tidus makes an appearance early, and the emotional impact of it is important. I know– sort of– how things end in FFX. I haven’t finished it, but I’ve read one (just one) mention of a scene that sounded poignant. If FFX-2 continues the storyline between Yuna and Tidus… well, that would just rock.
Which reminds me to make a FFX/FFX-2 userpic or three, now that I have the space. 