This also means continuously writing 2014 on everything and then damning yourself for remembering your error 2 seconds after lifting your pen off the paper.
For me it means absolutely nothing, except maybe a new piercing.
However, the Holidays meant seeing family again, and revisiting the lands in the east-- where traffic laws are respected and there's jack shit to do so it's always quiet and really chill; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Despite the assumed warm and generous undertones of the holidays, it's definitely not my favorite time of the year. It used to be... when I was little and had zero understanding of budgeting finances and bills. If I wanted that veterinary Barbie playset... it'd magically happen. If I wanted my dad to have that neat tool set (gender roles and expectations, heyo!), no problem. He'd get it, magically. But.. that magic has been diminished by a swift roundhouse reality kick. Also, adhering to society's expectations of what is acceptable as "generous" during that time of the year completely grosses me out.
BUT... sometimes you love people or something and it clouds your judgement and then you find yourself getting them things in spite of your cynicism.
SO BEFORE I LEFT TO GO SEE THE FAAAAAM.....
Fett and I got together at his place and exchanged gifts. :B
He couldn't go without the Frozen wrapping paper...
Here's one of the things I got him.
Fett is someone who buys himself anything he needs, which makes him hard to shop for because anything practical is out the window. Thankfully, he enjoys impractical things by nature, lol
like this;
It's, as you can see, The Bounty Hunter Code. Basically a really cool book, encased in a fancy case that opens electronically when you insert your credit card into the slot, or anything similarly shaped. It makes cool Star Wars-y noises. Comes w/ a dart replica, other 'documents' and another book written by another bounty hunter. Inside the code are notes written by Boba, Han, Greedo, and other characters in the trade. It's neat. He really liked it.
His other gifts were a leather bound book with papyrus pages for him to doodle and write in, and a Halo keychain of Cortana's hologram chip. Aaaaaalll of the impractical things! lol
And here are some of the things he got me!
I love my geeky... and I also love my horror-y... Best plushies ever.
The turrent has a sensor and says things from the game! And the Alien plushie sticks its tongue out when you push it's belly ^_^ so cyyyooooot
Nailed it.
Like, look at it.
Look.
are you seeing that?
YEAH.
and finally... he got me VS panties.
THE MYTH IS REAL.
Cynthia, you mean you've never gotten VS stuff from your mans?
That's right, person! In fact, it never even occured to me until I unfortunately saw a tweet about girls just wanting VS stuff and UGGs for xmas from their "bae"
It was a pleasant surprise. I didn't know how to react, because really... is it for me, or him? ha
Either way.. it's nice ^_^
Following gift exchange, we went to go watch Big Hero 6, since I hadn't seen it.
It was pretty cute. I cried 3 times.
The following evening I was to depart from LAX to my home town over night. There were two layovers, both over an hours time, but the airports were dead, and I had material to keep me busy.
:B
Before I left, I impulse bought BOI: Rebirth because reasons.
No regrets. It's easier than the original, I feel. but they added lots of cool stuff that the other one didn't, which I'm totes enjoying. AND MORE CUTE GROSS THINGS YAY :D
My mom, Pamela and her daughters Alisha and Ingrid all came to come get me at the airport.
We went to lunch, where Ingrid attempted to teach Alisha how to properly utilize chopsticks.
It was really cute to watch.
When I got home I saw my dad, and he immediately brought me over to the shed where all the puppies are. Which is where I met T-Rex.. you'll meet her soon.
aaaaaand later we went to go see Dumb and Dumber To.
(the second one, for those of you who take phonetics literally)
T-Rex, one of 4, was named as such because she hops around on her back legs due to her two front legs never having developed fully. She has two little stubs, and she's so cute. and no part of me will deny that she is the favorite. It's the truest truth there ever was. She's absolutely the favorite.
The other 3 are Oso (bear in Spanish), Oreo for her pattern, and Chikis (CHEE•keyz). They were all adopted off this dude who couldn't care for them anymore. My dad coddles them like you wouldn't believe.
We spent Christmas eve at Pamela's. I passed out for an hour and a half... felt horrible for it buuuuuttt... I hadn't slept since the previous night before my flight aaaaaaand.... I was dying.
Was cool though. There was food, and food. And hot chocolate. and Panettone.
mmmmmmmmm panettone.
For Xmas I received mostly money, which was great because that meant rent was paid.
:D
The following day I spent mostly in my old attic, foraging through old crates full of my old shit.
The memories were crazy.
guys.
REMEMBER THESE?
Not sure what happened to the ears buuuutt...
:DD
5 crates full of my old stuff.
Prepare yourself for photos of some of the crap I found in them.
I made this doll when I was in like... 7th grade, lol. I remember watching Mulan, and when the Hans stormed the village and killed everyone, there was a doll left behind that was the cutest doll ever, and I wanted her so bad. So I made this, lol.
Dolls and beanie babies galore.
and Pokemon.
and old drawings.
When I saw the trailer to The Fellowship I became obsessed with Gollum.
This was one of John Jude Palencar's art off of one of Lovecrafts' books. I thought it was so cool, and tried to draw it from memory
ahhh freshman year.
Mhm.
I was a hxc Orgy fan girl. It was disgusting. Fan girls are insane.
I know this. Thankfully, Orgy is NOTHING like what it used to be back in early 2k, and broke my heart, and ... I got over them. Also, Jay Gordon wears those ugly oversized baseball caps and makes dubstep now.
ew.
Miss Panda :)
I had one party in high school.
This was back when Hot Topic sold shit that mattered, like collars, cool platforms, vinyl, bondage pants, bondage cuffs and everything ultra goth and punk.
And my (real) friends were cool in the weirdest ways.
going through the albums was kinda emotional.
OH HI, T-REX :D
her little stubbbbiiiieeeeessss
Even though my trip was short lived it was nice being home again. Mom's food was delicious...
this is the part where I say do not take your parents' cooking for granted. If you still live with them... enjoy and savor every moment of it, because it's all over when you live on your own. Nothing will come close to mom's cooking, and you'll miss it terribly.
(that is unless you date someone whos' moms' nationality is similar to yours and she cooks similarly to how your mom cooks)
Thanks to Josh, I got home safe and sound :)
A few days later, my housemates were hosting a Yule Feast thingie. I'm dumb and never check my facebook invites, so when I got home from work there were a billion people in the kitchen with tons of food being warmed up and everyone in armor taking stuff to the back yard.
It was a huge potlock celebratey thing.
Guys, it's Trent and his hair.
Hay Trent's hair.
I tried to get a good shot of Thor but he kept laughing, ugh.
STAHP
DAT
LAUGHIN'
KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YA
CAN'T
STAHP
LAUGHIN'
okay, sorry.
(you totally read it in his voice, didn't you?)
There was a fire pit and it made me happy because yay burning things and warmth and eeeeee ^_^
Fire mage.
At the end of the night, I don't remember exactly what I did. Probably went to bed and got up for work the next day.
Either way, Christmas was good times.
OH and I got my space heater in the mail last week. Probably the greatest thing I've purchased for myself, but sadly... it's not cold in the house anymore. I swear Southern California had like... 4 days of winter. ugh -_-
Anyway... atm things have been a little stressful. There's stuff going on at work that's been on my mind and am at my wits end over. It's got me down. I'm scared to go to work anymore for fear of making a single mistake. I don't know. We'll see what happens I guess.
Buffy's stunt double had huge boobs.