merry christmas to all!

in the wacky tradition in which my family does the untraditional, for christmas eve, jenny, jenny's friend sarah, chris, james, wendy, and i caught a movie...two weeks notice, which was funny - because sandra bullock is funny and hugh grant is funny. so, with the two of them together in one movie, makes for a very funny and enjoyable movie. hooray for romantic comedies that feed us more preposterous notions about relationships. one of these days, i'm really going to wake up and enter the real world - but not quite yet.

after the two hours of the fantasyland that is the movie-world, we ate random foods - which included iver's clam chowder and leftover noodles. this has the strong potential to sound sad, but it actually isn't - not so much anyway. every christmas eve for at least the last 7/8 years has been spent in random ways. when we were kids in youth group, a bunch of friends - the ol' jibc crew and friends - would congregate at chris and wendy's and just goof off until it was time to go home. we were the kids whose parents were working at the restaurant, or busy with church events, or busy hosting way too many people at their own house. it was actually tons of fun. the last couple of years have involved movie watching and then scrounging for food. but it's all good, because christmas day dinner is the big thing. the whole extended fam goes out to chinatown and we grub - i think maybe one year we did a potluck...oh wait...i think that was one thanksgiving 3 years ago...nevermind. anyway, anytime the extended family gets together for dinner it's fun, well, mostly fun, especially if the uncles and stuff get a bit sloshed...but it's more funny just because they're usually so proper. :)

and my little brother andy gets back from florida tomorrow - he went with his wrestling team - which i've been banned from making comments about. he doesn't appreciate when i make totally innocent comments about his little outfit...er...spandex uniform. but come on...he couldn't pick a different sport? one where there isn't a fear of getting ringworm and other weird fungi diseases? eh, i hope he got me a present from the magic kingdom :)