fighting in our hearts

To paraphrase my sister, "Christmas has become a social holiday, like Canada Day, everyone celebrates it. Except maybe Jews." So. Yes. Family giftmas has gone and done. Dad, brother and sister all loved what I got them. Not so sure with mom. (Doesn't help that she got 4 puzzles this year, including mine.)

( the down-low on what I was given )

In some ways, it depresses me. So much materialism, but I'm not really happier with it. It was nice to get things I needed, but the gifts that really stood out to me were the ones that really showed the people had thought about me, and cared. (My sister, $ka, Laura... and the fact that my dad actually bought me the manga I was showing him o.o;) The rest kind of... eh. Like, with the cookbooks. One of them is for Italian food. I hate Italian food. Like... I eat cheese raviolli or vegetarian lasagne and that's about it. And I was about ready to smack my brother. I had shown him like 8 different things I would have liked (which all would have been cheaper than the DVD-RWs) but he has no creativity at all with gifts, so he just got the first thing he saw that he thought might be useful to me. -_-;; I picked out all his gifts for the rest of the family. (If I hadn't, he would have spent $20 total between all of us this year.)

I suppose I really shouldn't complain, though. I mean, I got gifts and we're going to be having a huge Christmas dinner. We're lucky. People I care for won't be getting that, and that really breaks my heart.




<EDIT>( stolen from kia, trying to cheer myself up )

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Finally got my school schedule, and there is much yayness. I have fridays off again and my earliest starting time is 10 am. One "boo" though is that I don't finish until 8pm on thursdays. ._. So late.

Trying to decide whether I want to go shopping tomorrow or not. Good = sales, bad = crowds. ...I'll probably just end up staying home. I usually do.


Too many fatty and sugary foods with xxx-mas. Feel gross. May need more alcohol soon.