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Tuesday, 25 December 2007

Weekend Recap: 'Twas the Weekend before Christmas

and I fucking HATE Tila Tequila for coming up in my weekend recap and ended up at her Myspace page which proceeded to crash my browser and totally erase the big long Weekend Recap I had just written! I know, I'm not supposed to make posts directly in the browser but I was, whatever!

I can't recreate all this. Now what to do?

I have raging PMS, someone please put me out of my misery. What a fantastic Christmas present.

Friday night was a semi-dud. Never made last minute plans to hang out w/ the ladies before going out of town. Got home from work and realized I had left my wallet so had to go back to work after I walked and fed the dogs, good thing I live close, and decided to take Cleo w/ me on the T. She did very well! My roomies asked me to go to dinner before I skipped town which was weird because RR and I hadn’t talked in about a week. Decided to go w/ them and sat in silence at dinner for a very long time until finally the ice was broken I guess and we could have a semi-normal conversation.

Went home to pack and hang out until around 1am. Then to bed and up at 6am to get ready for Janet and Annie to pick me up at 7. I got done early so could start watching The Biggest Loser finale that I had recorded. Good thing they were late too so I could watch even more. Have to finish it when I get back to Boston. Biggest Loser Couples January 1st!

The ride to NY was pretty uneventful except Janet drives right up on cars' asses, kinda scary and their poor dog Lucinda (Lou for short) was panting the whole time. Janet had to meet family at this place in Cazenovia so my mom was meeting us there to get me. She was late and after picking me up said she was glad they weren’t just waiting there for her to pick me up, because they had to be there anyway and I said ‘What about me?’ and that made her mad I guess because I’m not allowed to be mad that she was late. She’s picking me up so that’s doing me a favor and I can’t complain. So we didn’t start out on a good note. After that went to lunch and the grocery to get stuff for all the Christmas Eve and Christmas stuff she had to bake.

Got home and I helped w/ a little baking, did some laundry, and hung out. Eventually went up in the attic and got some of my books down to read. When I moved from Boston to Kansas I left a bunch of books and stuff w/ my mom. After dinner we watched Blood Diamond but I had already seen it so went to bed early and read my book.

Sunday morning got up and went into Hamilton, NY to run w/ mom. I had to do 9 miles and she only had to do 5 so we did this race course loop backwards from a race we’d done in the summer w/ Dedra where we all placed in our age groups. The course backwards was actually hillier and though it was relatively warm out on Sunday it was windy. After 5 Mom went into a restaurant to wait for me and I did the loop another time. Even though it was a much hillier long run course than I do in Boston, I was surprised that my pace wasn’t so bad. Went home to warm up and spent the rest of the day reading and watching football w/ Gary while Mom baked and cooked. The Giants ended up beating the Bills in a great game though the Pats/Miami was a joke. I wish the Giants could beat the Pats this coming Saturday but since the Giants just clinched a playoff spot they will probably rest some of their starters.

Watched some more TV: 60 minutes, Amazing Race and then 2 episodes of Journeyman online. I always end up getting distracted when I watch it on TV and then have to rewatch it later online to remember what happened. Supposedly I just watched the last episode of it. I’ll have to find something to replace it like American Idol which starts soon.

Monday morning/afternoon spent hours on Gary’s computer trying to fix it. Apparently he lost all of his music. Good thing he doesn’t have that much. I don’t know what the hell happened to it but he said when he would click on a song it would ask him to find it. First I just thought that his path was screwed up but then I realized he had none of these songs anywhere on his computer. Somehow they got deleted. First I wanted to download the latest software for iTunes and his iPods. He hadn’t been doing it because he didn’t remember his Admin password so then I had to get his OS CD and put that in to reset his password and then download a ton of software and then find an application to get his songs from his iPods back onto his computer. iPodRip ended up working perfectly so that was good and Gary got all his songs back. Next time I hope he’ll be able to troubleshoot a little. All he has to do is try a Google search and go from there but he doesn’t seem that capable. I guess I’m glad I could help but I feel like he’s helpless to try and explain anything to or show how to figure things out on his own for next time.

That put us into late afternoon and now we all had to get ready to go to Aunt Winnie’s for the Xmas Eve party as usual every year. We had to make some stops first plus pick up Aunt Margaret from her rehab place. She’s a mess in diapers w/ a wheelchair ever since being diagnosed w/ ovarian cancer at the beginning of 2007, plus she’s 84 years old. It was a big project to get her to Aunt Winnie’s but she was very happy to get the hell out of that place. She hates it and thinks everyone is trying to kill her. What’s taking them so long?

So I spent the night mainly w/ my 34-35 year old cousin Brian serenading me w/ Rascal Flatts karaoke which was very strange until I could recruit more relatives for him to sing to. My 33 year old cousin Tammy w/ the 5 year old triplet boys from in vitro that isn’t supposed to be able to have children is 5 months pregnant and getting her tubes tied once they get the kid out. I listened to my mom and aunts tell my ~20 year old cousin that she could always go back to school later in life, like my mom did, since she didn’t like college and I guess working at the department store cosmetics counter is okay for her now. My 29 year old cousin Mark’s 9 year old daughter said to me ‘If there was a pole there I could slide down it…like a stripper,’ and in that pause I thought she was going to say fireman. She also simulated pole dancing w/ the banister and said she learned it from watching Tila Tequila w/ her mother. And I thought I was a bad influence on my niece. Tammy’s husband asked me if I was a member of PETA and wondered why I was wearing so much leather (leather coat and boats), I guess because I’m a vet, they have no idea what I do at work and it’s impossible to explain so I’m just glad I’m there for a night and can get back to Boston real soon where the people I’m around are more like me. It’s a good dose of birth control though!

Drove back to Mom’s w/ Alzheimer’s Grandma, she’s staying w/ us the next couple nights, good times. Sang xmas tunes in the car while she asked me the same thing over and over. Once home Mom and Gary got into a big fight, I rarely see them fight and this one was kinda bad, over him tracking in water and mud from outside onto the floor she just cleaned and he was denying that it was mud so she had to wipe it up and show him and I was adding my own commentary joking around not to worry about it because no one was coming over, when actually Gary’s whole family is coming tomorrow, and she said Good, I don’t want anyone to come over, and Gary thought that was dissing his family and he wanted an apology and she didn’t want to give one and Grandma and I were just sitting there silent until Mom took Grandma to bed and then she went to bed and Gary asked me another computer question.

I think I’ve gotten it all down on paper now. It was a struggle so I hope you appreciate it. Off to bed. Santa might come. Please! I know that’s a stretch.

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Rob Reed wrote at 2007-12-25 01:51:

Hilarious (because I didn't have to live through it)! Definitely worth the effort. Thanks for rewriting it.

Aren't you the little tech support guru. Who knew?

Oh yeah, don't write long posts in the browser, but then you already knew that huh?

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