About Christmas. It was great. My whole family was there except for my older brother who couldn't get two consecutive days off of work. But we were all there and every one of us got what we wanted for Christmas. I got some bike stuff that I've wanted for awhile. Tools mostly so I could take stuff apart and see how they worked. It's been fun since Christmas. My next brother down the line got snowboarding stuff like a nice wax iron he's been wanting. My next brother got a nice crash cymbal for his drum set. My sister got a nice longboard, nicer than mine...different, but more in what I would want; it has a fin on it one side that's just padding. It's pretty cool. And my baby brother got a bunch of toys, a little bit of everything. Christmas still isn't a big deal for him. I doubt he understands it. And did you know that he's so spoiled that every Sunday when we're in church my grandfather gives him new toys and a bunch of candy as soon as we sit down? Well...it's cleary not fair. Didn't mean that. But I do think that it makes getting gifts less special.
I just looked at the tree in this photo and I must apologize for it. We usually take time to make the tree look nice for Christmas but for some reason this year no one seemed to care. We've been busy with other things and never got around to putting more work into it.
Oh, my grandfather's wife should be coming here from the Philippines late next month or early February. I took way to long to get her visa. But when she comes he'll be moving out. He married her like a year and half ago, more, I think, and all the paper work and examinations and other bs has taken too long. I think his new wife is a little older than my mom. It's creepy.
Let me tell you a story about a couch. I thought it would be nice to replace an old futon couch that was in our tv room in the basement. It would be a Christmas present for my family so I wouldn't have to get them all individual gifts (I got them other stuff too). So I head over to Ikea with me mum to have a look see. We found one we (I) liked, went over the self-help area, and asked to get this sofa. So over at Ikea they sell their couches as a canvas and the buyer will usually pick out a cover they like to go with their decor. We'll come back to this. So we ask for help and a guy helps us get what we need to bring this couch home. This guy sucks at his job. He finds the place where people get the packaged furniture and tell us to take only one box when I thought it was in two total boxes, which I mentioned to the guy, but he reassured us that it was only one. We get home and I was right. We went back the next day to get the other box. No problem. We get home and we find that one of the major pieces has a rip in it. We take it back and git it replaced. No hassle. There is the matter of the cove,r though. It didn't come with a cover and they were out of the one we wanted. When we where there to get the ripped piece replaced we asked about it and a customer serviced guy, who also didn't know his job very well, told us to come back two days later and if they didn't have the one we wanted they would sell us the one in their showroom at a discounted price. We go back again and tell them what we were told. They didn't do what they said. I had my brother, Greg, with me on this trip and he sort of yelled at one of the young associates but those guys wouldn't budge. They told us that they were expecting more shipments of the cover want next week, which means that we need to call them up during the week, ask for the cover, and go over there again to get it. Do you see how long this paragraph is? Just to get a couch. We'll have to take a total of 5 trips to get couch all put together. It's actually put together now and it sits in our tv room, but without a cover. It's still comfortable but the cushions slide out because that's something the cover will handle. I'm so sick of this stupid couch.
Here's something else. I'm not sure if you remember how much I was looking forward to the game Rock Band, but they sent me the wrong one and after many emails they still haven't gotten back to me. But one day whilst I was waltzing around a Target store I came across an isle end where they had a big stack of game bundle for the ps3 and xbox. I was literally stopped in my tracks. I had been asking around for that game for a long time at many places and here it was at Target, just casually at the isle end. I had to buy it and it was sooo worth it. The game is all that I imagined and more. It so much more fun than guitar hero that words don't describe it. Come over some time and try it. It's awesome.
This is a terrible photo of my sibling playing it. If you look at the white couch you will be looking at an Ikea couch without a cover on it.
There are other stories but I don't feel like typing anymore. And I'll add more pictures later to show ya'll what I'm talking about.
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