Help me, I’m obsessed, deranged, and completely out of control. Someone needs to stop me from playing the Sims 2 before I jump into the game and become one. I’m sure I will grow tired of playing it the exact same day that I decide that I must spend all of my money on the ultimate Sims machine. I found some more memory when I was home during Turkey Day and it made the Sims VERY VERY happy! I would put more in but I’ve run out of slots.
Thanksgiving weekend was nice and relaxing, and I had lots of fun too! I traveled to FC on Wednesday night and did nothing which was actually nice. Thursday was Thanksgiving of course, and we went to my grandma’s house to have a feast. Everyone was drunk … except me. Even my brother was. My uncle eagerly fed him many cans of beer. I tried to drink some wine but it tasted like nail-polish remover (as usual). I am not too fond of Budweiser, and honestly I was just craving a good cup of coffee, which of course my grandmother provided for me.
I fixed their computer, which was the most messed up computer I have seen. It worked for about 3 minutes, then a bad error would come up and say the computer was shutting off in 30 seconds. I later found out it was a virus, but just to be safe I used their recovery CD and made the computer brand-new. My brother had installed Windows XP on it at some point and I don’t think the computer liked it very much. Its not an old computer, but its a crappy HP like mine, so changing from anything other than how it came is not a good idea. That is one reason that I’m afraid to format my computer. Hewlett Packard’s have some type of built in evil-gnome that comes out if you mess with it. Seriously! I’m not kidding.
Anyways, the turkey dinner was tasty, and I was satisfied. I like going to my grandma’s the best because my mom’s side of the family is so abnormal. But it is great because I fit right in and I can say whatever I want. I can talk about butts and gay sex if I want. Nobody would get offended. My dad’s side of the family is annoying, and they just constantly ask you how you are, what you are doing, where you live, how is your job, all those questions that I loathe answering even once, let alone the 100 times I actually have to answer each individual person. If I have to go to another family function again with them I think that I will suggest a “presentation style” get-together. Every person will get a turn to stand in front of the rest of the family and answer every possible embarrasing question that the audience can think of. That way, you only have to answer it once.
Anyways … on with the tales of Thanksgiving. On Friday my mom, dad, and I went to WalMart to check out the haps of their super day after Thanksgiving sale. We got there around 12, so we missed the 5 hour super-sale, but nothing good was on sale anyways. I was kind of looking for the sandwich maker that was on sale for $4.77 but I didn’t find it. After the WalMart escapade, we went to Big Lots and I did find a sandwich maker there that I liked.
Later that day, my mother and I began our Christmas Tree scheming. See, my dad HATES putting up the Christmas Tree and always waits until the last minute. This makes my mom sad because she wants the Christmas tree up right away (like me). My mom said that my dad would do it because I was home and I have powers that she does not have. So my mom and I proceeded to dig all of the Christmas decorations out of the basement and we began decorating the house. My dad was being a Scrooge-meister and was yelling at us. I found my very sad Christmas Tree in the basement and I could not revive it. It is about 3-feet tall and it sits in a pot. No matter what I did, the pot kept making my tree look like a shrub. So I went to WalMart and purchased styrofoam supplies to create a tree stand. When I got back my dad was putting garland on the bannister (hey, its a start!) I began to concoct a tree stand using my styrofoam, sticks, and a glue-gun. My dad gave me the most awesome kitty-wreath that has a motion detector which plays Christmas music with an overlay of “Meow Meow Meow”. I was very very happy. Anyways, my mom and I had finished decorating and I had finished my Christmas Tree, and my dad layed on the couch and played with the cat. Our scheming was not going as planned.
BUT, when I woke up on Saturday morning, the Christmas tree was in the process of being built! Success! Woola! I kind of sat around and drank coffee all morning and then my long lost friend Jamie called me. I was sort of bummed because I was coming back to my apartment that night, but we decided we could still go shopping at the dollar store, my ultimate goal, and hang out for a bit. She conned me once again (that con-artist), forcing me to go to Payless Shoes and visit my long time arch-enemy whom I haven’t spoken to in years. I don’t have much to say about it, except that um … I had a bad dream that she tried to kick me in the eyeballs with her slouch boots. Watch-out … if you have been avoiding Payless Shoes for the last few years … you had better start avoiding WalMart too. So anyways, we went to the dollar-store and we both went crazy and filled up carts with Christmas decorations. I spent $35 there! Keep in mind that every single item there is $1 … and I got a 10% discount. I think Jamie spent nearly $30 as well. After that, my tales of grandeur pretty much end. I came back to my cave … *cough* I mean apartment that night, decorated my apartment …. played the Sims all day on Sunday and went back to work today.
I am very excited about my Christmas decorations and I am going to post pictures of my revamped apartment as soon as I’m done. I think I should stop now. This entry is long enough, but I haven’t written in a while so I’m making up for it!