Oh, and the other Christmas Goodness!
26-Dec-04
Other gifties under or in the general vicinity of the tree this year:
A popcorn kernel sampler from my friends Ken and Jill (also a large plate which I think might have been mis-delivered….)
A gift certificate from my mommy (my mommy is great!)
A promisary note for a 4-hour video of my neices and nephews from my sister
A gift certificate to Barnes & Noble from my dad
A flamingo watering can….. from grandma, in case you couldn’t tell (we have a flamingo thing going on)
A sausage and cheese gift pack from my brother Mike and his family
A bottle of wine from John’s friends Al and Alison
A mystery gift (we haven’t picked it up yet) from and his lady
John and I went geocaching this morning and found 3 caches. Hammer’s sore on his leg broke open, which was a bummer and required attention (and cleaning of my car’s backseat….)
And I spent the rest of day playing Final Fantasy X, which was great fun. Obviously when people were telling me “oh, yeah– it’s really easy to defeat the Big Bad Guy from where you are right now– you must be dumb for not having beaten him yet!” what they meant was “you need to spend another 20 hours of game time to get the special secret weapon for one character, or you haven’t got a chance. Oh, and no, there’s no possible way you would have found it without looking for cheats and secrets online. Too bad.” For over a year I’ve been *this close* to defeating the Big Bad, but I just kept *dying* in one round at the worst possible moment. Well, now I know better. Hah. I’m not dumb, just unprepared. I guess it’s just not possible to beat video games without having the secret knowledge of the Internet.
Anyway, Merry Christmas to all my friends out there in LJ-land. I hope you’ve had a lovely day. I know I have, and tomorrow is special post-Christmas Sunday (which is to say– absolutely meaningless except it’s another non-work-day, which is yay!)