December 28, 2009 | Family Portrait,Life in General,Movie Queue,Music Queue,The 4-1-1 on Me,Weekend Wrap-Up
Click here for Christmas pics. My Dad took more pics so I’ll have to get them from him. Needless to say, it was hard taking pics while unwrapping presents
I hope you all had a fabulous holiday. It was our first Christmas without my sister and B-I-L here, but we got a chance to speak with them. And we’re visiting them for a week at the end of Feb, so I’m very excited. Mr. Maul and I went to my parents house for breakfast and my niece and nephew were already there. It was good to see them. I live closer to my niece than my nephew and I’ve seen him more in the past two months than I’ve seen him all year! He just lives so far away (over an hr), it’s like a road trip to see him. Anyhoo, let me expound on all the goodies I received.
From Mr. Maul – bought me an iPod nano. I love it. For the past few days, I’ve been downloading onesie-twosie songs—from artists like Papa Roach, Coolio, Blur, Michael Buble, Godsmack, Drowning Pool, Disturbed, Faith No More, Course of Nature, and Chris Cornell– as well as downloading certain CD’s from my huge collection. I don’t plan on downloading ALL my music, just the stuff I’ve been listening to lately and stuff I’d like to have on there (like all my Linkin Park and Live CD’s). When I got it, he had already downloaded songs from GLEE. Whoo-hoo! I also downloaded new Creed and plan to download new Gavin DeGraw and 30 Seconds to Mars. Needless to say, it takes longer for whole albums to download. Especially if there’s a lot of songs. One of the many things I love about this little gadget is that I can listen to my favorite radio station while I’m at work…and I can record video. I got some footage of my niece teaching her brother how to tango. LOL. Funny.
From my parents – a trip to Orlando for a week. We’re going to visit my sis. Thank God for timeshare. My parents and nephew are going too and my parents paid for lodging and airfare. The most expensive part! I’m looking forward to the mini-vacay. I’ve never been to Orlando, but it’s been on my list of Places to Visit.
From Elissa – Mr. Maul’s best friend’s wife bought me a lotto ticket, a little bottle of Sea Island Cotton body lotion from Bath and Body Works, a gift card to The Body Shop and a $25 AMC movie card. She took our Halloween pic and somehow put it on the AMC card so it looks like we’re on the big screen. Very cool. We spent nearly all of it when we saw AVATAR in 3D opening weekend.
From my nephew – ROLE MODELS DVD (unrated version), Slinky Jr and a little popcorn cup.
From my niece – Tther than a little container full of baked goodies, I’m not sure yet. She left my gift at home! *rolls eyes*. She remembered Mr. Maul’s gift, but not mine. Go figure.
From Lisa – my coworker got me a sweater to wear at work. It gets cold in my area and I wore my other one so much, I wore a hole in the elbow and had to throw it away. I was bummed.
While we were at my parents house, my niece decided to pull out some old photo albums. It was a walk down memory lane that was highly enjoyable. And entertaining. Thought I might share a few with you all:
I was in high school when I decided to be a Harlequin clown for Halloween one year. Mike, my BFF at the time, wasn’t diggin’ it because he had–still has, I think–a thing about clowns ever since he saw Stephen King‘s IT. LOL
This is me and my sister. I’m the baby. We’re two years and two days apart, in case you were wondering. Not sure when this was taken, but it looked like I was having a grand ol’ time, yeah?
This is my version of the naked-baby-on-a-bearskin-rug picture. LOL. That’s me. Shirtless. Hangin’ out in rollers. When my sister was a senior in high school, we got in a car accident together and totaled the LTD you see in the background there. We used to call it the S.S. Downs. LOL.
This is me, my Dad and my sister. The time frame must’ve been while I was going to ASU. I can tell because I’m wearing my ASU class ring (even though I never graduated from there).
And there you have it. A little peek into the family album. During the weekend we went to see SHERLOCK HOLMES, which, surprisingly, was quite good. Robert Downey, Jr. looked great during the fight scenes and it’s funny how his hair always seemed to have a just-shocked look to it. LOL. We also watched KNOWING and (500) DAYS OF SUMMER. I’d wanted to see KNOWING (with Nicholas Cage) in the movie theater, but never got a chance. It was an interesting take on the end-of-the-world themes.
So, that’s it for me. How was your holiday weekend? What’d you get?
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