i realize i have not posted for a few days and i know you guys are all so worried about me. and none of you are on AIM when i sign on!! i don't know why that is. is it a holiday thing? talk about an early frost.
sunday::: well it would seem we drove. and we only stopped twice and that's really really great and we made wondrous time meaning we got here in like. 10 and a half hours. ok not much happened. we arrived and everybody got hugs. why are southerners so emotional. oh and we didn't really do much except for luke tape recorded morgan and i disco dancing (she knew what she was doing, and i did not. it was choreographed dances from the show and i was clueless.) and then luke told me to talk about cheese and i tried and it was fucking hilarious. there is not a lot to say about cheese. oh and it was also discovered that phyllis has a fetish for filming food. (say THAT five times fast, good lord)
monday::: christmas eve. god i can't really remember much about that day. what happened. oh oh ok. *just asked luke and he was no help but i remembered anyway* right so we (luke, rachel, morgan, and i) had spent the night here (rachel and luke's house, which is across the pond from grandma's house, where the rest of my family is staying) right so we woke up and... i dont know i guess we just hung out a while. point: we then went outside and rode around in the golf cart and then we decided to attach the tarp but then we remembered the tarp was broken so we broke the trampoline and used the mat from there instead. and we used this cord wire thingie and attached the mat/tarp/thingie to the back of the golfcart. and then morgan and luke sat upon it and rachel drove round and i had a world of fun just sitting there and being slung round the seat. this practice is what we so fondly call "redneck bobsledding" or even "riding around on the tarp" so anyway that went on a good long while and it was discovered that morgan is very very sturdy and she hardly ever falls off, though luke 'falls off' intentionally even though its more like sitting off when the thing is going really slowly. so then rachel wanted to ride and so i pulled the three of them around while i drove but the thing was running down on powerness and it was puttering along slowly and tehy were like X_X and i was trying to be a responsible driver anyway, as i will most likely get my learner's permit thingie in a month or so. anyway they were like 'YOURE NOT EVEN TRYING TO SLING US OFF!' and of course the last time someone had been brutally thrown from the thingie (morgan, i do believe), jenny (rachel and luke's mother) freaked out because apparently she didnt want mom and dad to kill her. anyway. then they got really annoyed at me and luke took over the wheel and i didnt want to get on the tarp still anyway (i didnt have anything to change into and besides it was a cool emily shirt and my silkie pj pant thingies.) and luke managed to flip em around a good bit even thought he poor old cart was going to slow, until he nearly ran them into a tree and stopped juuuuust in time. (rachel had actually done that to morgan earlier, and while morgan tried to roll off the tarp, moving ever closer towards a big tree, i screamed and screamed until rachel screeched to a halt about half a foot away from morgan being abolished.) anyway we decided it was too cold and too slow to go on any longer and we started to charge the thingie up in the garage. yeah and morgan and luke and rachel were SOOOOOOO dirty i cannot even explain. and they had all kinds of little cuts and bruises and scrapes and wounds and the infamous 'battle scars'. after they got cleaned up i think we just hung out inside for a while before going to grandma's. anyway i think at some point amelia and chanda showed up. and we hung out with them for a bit but they had to go home because amelia said she wasn't allowed to spend the night at grandma's and they had to spend christmas morning with their parents (and sister and her husband and their kiddies) so that was goodbye. and uhm. i remember something about watching a movie or something with my parents and phyllis and ken and then i had cramps and made mom bring me some motrin and my back was itchy and morgan and i each fell asleep on some couches. and it was ok because we'd already made up the couches with the blankets grandma brought us, as we had to sleep there, as there was 'no where else to sleep' even though she didn't even MENTION that the reading room fold-out couch bed thing wasn't taken. but mom and dad were upstairs on this homemade king-size bed (we think they should've taken the reading room though because, on other nights anyway, there are more of us, kids that is, and you can fit more people on some huge home-made king-size bed than on that horrible little fold-out reading room couch bed potato thingie.) and phyllis and ken and nani (my mom's sister, her husband, their cat) had the blue room. anyway we went to bed.
tuesday::: i woke up far too early. mom and grandma are the LOUDEST people i know. ok it's really just the whole damn loud family. is that a southern thing? a south georgian thing? this is very interesting to me. well not just the loudness. but i always seem to find myself thinking of southern things and then i'm like 'oh wait memphis is southern in its way, isnt it' so then i have to think 'is it just a georgia thing? south georgia? bacon county? alma?' and so on and so forth. like that people are more emotional! ok i will talk about that later on the thursday bit. anyway. moving on.
the point is mom and grandma woke me up when they were screeching to each other from lke three feet away about 'HERES DEXTER AT THE DOOR' dexter being the cat who went 'missing' the night before. so i woke up but i was lying there for the longest time (as it seems i usually am.) so then dad came downstairs and phyllis got up and ken and everyone was waking up and morgan even woke up and aghagha then phyllis starting filming me 'asleep' (she has this new obsession with her video camera) and mom said 'morgan, go wake alanna up' and so morgan came over and i was smiling because i was awake, you know, a smile that could look like an asleep smile, not huge and grinning, but morgan leaned over me and i smiled big big big and laughed and laughed. i don't know why i'm talking about this, the post is going to be long enough anyways, what with it being christmas and all. anyway.
most people got some food. i think we were having. salmon and coffee cake, so of course i had a bagel with cream cheese. and so we opened our stocking presents. oh oh this would be the time to tell you that at grandma's house. generally everyone plays a little santa. this year we had real santa gifts (parentals) at grandma's and then we ALWAYS have presents from grandma that she labels 'from santa' and santa grandma is the best and she always buys wayyyy too much for us, poor thing. and then chanda usually sticks a few little things in everybody's stocking. but you can always tell about these things of course. and after that we opened our tree santa gifts. and mom felt guilty about getting so much from dad and we gave him three DVDs 'and no toys' so we gave him toys. we gave him the little buddy christ dashboard thing and a little gandalf figure and a sandman morpheus action figure. from 'santa'. and then we opened presents from each other (the people who give the present to you must ALWAYS be present, of course! that's a law!!!) and the present people included aunt ella, phyllis, ken, grandma, papa, dad, mom, morgan, and me. and we had to wait for curtis's (my mom's brother) bit of the family (jenny, rachel, luke) and danny's (my mom's other brother) bit of the family (sherry, chanda, amelia. no one was expecting rita, craig, gabrielle, and cassandra to show up. rita doesnt like us. meaning my mom, really. and our little bit of the family) so anyway. curtis and all of them were with jenny's family and eating lunch and opening presents there and i dont know where danny and all them were. probably still opening things and turning deer into bacon and such things. so we sat around for a few hours and morgan fell asleep and then curtis and rachel and jenny and luke AND chanda came riiiight was we were sitting down to lunch and of course they'd just had it, so they opened presents while we ate and watched them. oh it was like a festival. even though i probably just had a roll, i can't remember. so then we opened presnts and everyone opened presnts and it was a joyous occasion except for that chanda gave me no doubt's 'rock steady' and i died at that but i think she mentioned returning it anyway even though i didnt say a thing about not liking it. anyway i think this would be the time to discuss what i recieved. bly has already asked me to post my christmas list wahaha.
from santa: night before christmas watch with the mayor on it (i always loved the mayor. morgan says he reminds her of me. perfect, eh?)
adobe photoshop essentials or something. lol i dont think thats what its called. anyway its supposd to be like the big special adobe thing except it's the kinds of things that regular people would use and they took out a bunch of the fancy stuff. dad is probably more excited about that than i am.
'burning down the house' which is a book including poetry by the five winners of the national slam contest thing in like.... 99, i think? from the nuyorican poets cafe. wondrous! i haven't really gotten to start it. i tried to, but i just got halfway through the introduction.
madame alexander doll. it's a princess and quite cute. sort of sulkie, dont you know. morgan got one as well but hers is victorian.
'born blue' by han nolan. no idea what it's about but i needed a new book. and the author is supposed to be good, i do believe.
ani difranco's "living in clip" -- dad actually told me that he bought this RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE when i was at borders with laylee and brittany. and the poor sweet man ran out to the car to hide it in the pouring rain -- do you guys remember that night?! it was like a fucking flood!! he also said that borders had a few other things from my wish list such as 'dig me out' by sleater-kinney but he remembered my comment thing on 'living in clip' was that i could never keep enough money to buy the damn thing. and it had that 'jesus vs. buddha' thing at the very end and i laughed and laughed all night long OH AND BRITTANY!! WAS THE GUY'S NAME LARRY BERGER?!?!?! HE'S THE ONE WHO CAME UP WITH THE TITLE FOR 'LIVING IN CLIP' AND HE'S PART OF THE PA TECH AND THERES A PICTURE OF HIM IN HTE LITTLE BOOKLET WEARING A DRESS AND TERRIFYING ME but morgan said our larry was bald.
in my stocking there was a tiny little note (in my mother's wondrous handwriting. quite appropriate) with a little poem she'd obviously written and it basically informed me that my big main christmas present thing is a cello and lessons. i am quite excited but i hope it works... apparently mom wanted to actually have a cello there but you have to get measured and it wouldnt be a surprise and anyway i would have noticed it in the car.
from phyllis and ken: 'spiritual machines' by our lady peace. phyllis is really great, especially about music. she listened to a lot of stuff on my wish list and she says she liked their sound. and plus she said there were so many women she thought by giving me this it could be something different. she likes to be different. i love phyllis.
'electric honey' by luscious jackson. i don't know how i'm going to feel about this. i havent listened to it yet. but i'm kinda excited because phyllis used to live in the same neighborhood as the bassist from luscious jackson and they met and talked and stuff and she gave phyllis tapes and everything!!! oh wow i thought it was the coolest thing. plus,
she gave me a tape she'd made of one of luscious jackson's earlier albums, the juliana hatfield album she has (which turns out to be 'become what you are' which is one i have anyway) and a couple songs off this 'early 90s' compilation cd type creature she had. one is the smashing pumpkins and maybe sarah mclachlan, i dont remember.
from aunt ella: $50 inside a skary jesus card.
'this way' by jewel. poor thing said she didn't know what to get me so she asked chanda to pick something out. and chanda later said this was THE only thing she could find from my wish list. one of the songs is called 'jesus loves you' and i went X_X..... and read the thank yous to see if she had thanked god or something skary. but then i listened to it and it was like 'they say jesus loves you... what about me?' so it wasnt terrifying.
from danny, sherry, amelia, and chanda: 'rock steady' by no doubt. x_x chanda mentioned returning it but we kind of didnt. probably because she kind of disappeared one day and never came back.

gwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha -Amelia the mad drunk

*posted to the wrong blog on christmas, late late at night*

amelia just took that quiz and she is a lemon. she is my very best friend. ever.. EVER. shhh stop laughing whore

*also posted to the wrong blog on late-night christmas*

Strawberry: 0/100 Pear: 20/100 Banana: 60/100 Tomato: 20/100 Lemon: 25/100

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greetings from georgia!!! yes because that is where i am. and it is christmas eve so have a lovely one, if you happen to celebrate it. aunt jenny just gave me some cookie monster bedroom slipper thingies and theyre hilarious and luke is here. and i am going to finish now because nothing else is happening.
aunt phyllis likes to film food.