Christmas Blog 2012

Hey everyone, Merry Kanishmas. Kanish Kringle loved our Smingerbread House and left great presents. That was a Chowder reference if you didn't know. It's Christmas which means it's time for family, fun, and presents. In our family, we start the festivities the day before, so lets start there, on Christmas Eve.

It started out with lots of cleaning up. Since I don't have that much stuff here since most of it's at college, I didn't have to do that much. After the cleaning we went over to my grandparents were we exchange gifts there first, or last depending on the year. We met at McDonald's, like we do every year. When we were little, it was so Santa could get set up while we were away. We're older now so we know some things we didn't before, but we still go over there because it's fun. I got some cool things. Got money, Blu-Rays, (continue list afterwards.) Here's a picture

Tin Tin not shown. I got a nice model of the Monkee Mobile, lots of detail, a set of American coins from my birth year, the hat that I'm wearing that will be really warm, the bag of money that's hanging from the hat, X-Men Origins Wolverine and Wonder Woman on Blu-Ray, Planet of the Apes, Amazing Spider man, and Big Bang Season 5 on DVD, and the new lounge Pants. The Fedora I've had and wear regularly, aka; not a gift.

After their house, we went to Christmas Eve mass. Good service like always. But the big thing was when we left mass we had an inch or 2 of snow. It was a Christmas miracle for all the little kids who wished for a white Christmas. We didn't have any snow before mass, so this was cool. We watched part of the first airing of A Christmas Story on TBS. Now time for bed and await the fun tomorrow.

Now time for Christmas Day. I went to bed earlier than normal the previous night. I went to bed at 11 instead of 12. I was about to wake up. I was. It was 8 AM and I realized I had my 9 hours, but I had to let my body catch up to my mind. Well then my brother came in and flashed the lights saying wake up. Actually it was "I'm the spirit of St. Nicholas and you've been a bad boy." I caught up quickly and corrected him with "actually the other guy punished the bad kids." He knew but couldn't remember his name, and neither could I. I get downstairs and we had our gifts around the tree like always. Here's a picture of it all.

 

Top Picture: Tool set and bag, new video camera, Yellow shirt; short sleeve, long sleeve, and hoodie, headlamp, whoppers, Hershey Cookies and Cream Bar, Captain America Blu-Ray, Amazon $25 gift card, light up pen, Pokemon Stickers, and a chocolate bar.

Bottom Picture: My brothers and mine new PS3, a second Dual Shock controller, Inception, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes both Blu-Ray

There's a story to the pen. Dad was at a seminar thing and the speaker had pens. He gave them out and said they made great presents for the kids. Dad the jokester. I also really like the digital video camera. I can do travel vlogs now. That's something I've wanted to do but didn't really have the tech nor the money to do that. Now my joke of "I have a webcam" when my video club asks what we have tech wise is dead. I actually have a camera. I'm still gonna say "I have a webcam" but also going to add "and a digital video camera with 4X digital zoom." It's no where on par with the DSLR cameras some of our members have but oh well.

Now for a fun thing. Because my aunt moved away we now have Christmas at our house. Prety sure I've said this in previous blogs but this is for you new guys. This is where the cleaning comes into place. We cleaned up and hosted a party. We had my grandparents, second cousins, grandparents good friends and their son, and one of my mom's friends. This is my cousin whom I share many interests with. It was fun talking with her, however short it was. She's not very talkative. We ended up watching Captain America on Blu-Ray our new PS3. It was cool even though we only got about a third of the way through. After a third we had our fun with our family sing along. My grandparents friend plays the accordion and she brings it to most every party. We sang our songs and I recorded some of the evidence on my new video camera. It's amazing what an accordion, a packet of sheet music, and maybe a couple of drinks can do. I won't upload the video because I don't have their OK and I don't think they'd want it out there.

After singing fun time it was time for dinner. We had the entire dining set, the chairs from the dinning set in the basement, the card table set, and an extra folding chair, all for us. That's 13 chairs and 2 tables in total. The "adults" sat at our dinning room table with the leaf in it and the "kids" sat at the card table in the living room right next to it so we are part of the dinner to an extent. We kind of just overheard our elders conversation and then add our own commentary on it or just go off on our own conversation. We had beef, smoked and roasted. We also had potatoes, green bean casserole, broccoli, and rolls. I had rolls and broccoli. I love cooked broccoli with salt. Afterwards we had dessert, homemade chocolate cake and pumpkin pie and store bought ice cream. I had cake and ice cream. It was good. The party didn't last long after that. I did get to show my cousin my latest set-up and additions to my nerd cave in the basement. She's a gamer, I'm a gamer, I put all the standard def games on our old standard def TVs in the basement.

Now I have one more party to host tomorrow. I'll post that tomorrow as an add on to this entry. So if you're reading this tonight, you are awesome so a shout out to you now. Well this has been Pokematic signing off and bu-bye, until tomorrow.

The next day.

Hi I'm back. Today I didn't do much for the day. At about 4, Mom's best friend and her kids came over. We went to our local comic book/trading card/video game/other nerd stuff store and looked around. I found they had Pokemon tapestries, and I'd buy them if I had the room. Things like that I would hang with pride, but I don't have the room. Got to many Naruto posters. Anyways, after that, we played super smash bros in my nerd cave. It's been a while since I used all my controllers on my N64. It was fun, and we almost got Ness unlocked, but then the game froze on me. First time that happened. We exchanged gifts and that was fun.

After they left, Mom's college friends came over for our Christmas party. Her friends have kids that are around the age of my brother and I. We hung out, played Risk, and enjoyed each other's company. Risk was fun, even though I lost. I got Asia for the most part, even though I was never able to get the 7 man bonus. Oh well. We had Pizza and enjoyed more fun time. We exchanged oranges and Chocolate bars. Now I can say this has been Pokematic signing off and bu-bye.

Thanksgiving and Black Friday 2012

Hey everyone, hope you had a happy Thanksgiving. I know I did. Since my grandpa isn't able to travel like he used to, we've spent Thanksgiving at my aunts who's about halfway. It was great to see them again. We talked about how my year was going, and how they were doing. It was good fun. Since I don't like turkey, previous years I'd just eat rolls and stuff and then eat later, but because I'm in college and my dorm food is survivable, I had my grandma's beef. It is so great. It's hard to describe how amazing it is.

We left at about 6 because it was getting a little late for my grandpa. We went to black Friday after that. Now I know what people say, "black Friday is outrageous. People are crazy there. Try to avoid the stores if you can. ect." To that I say, "but that's the best part." Yeah, I love the crazy fun of black Friday at Wal-Mart, best buy, and GameStop. At Wal-Mart, I wanted some blu-rays and tried to get big bang theory season 5. I did get the blu-rays but wasn't able to acquire big bang. I tried reaching for BBT at 8 when the wrapping came off but missed out. My brother and I are just looking at other blu-rays, and not to much craziness on those. We got to enjoy the crazy from a safe distance. People were fighting each other for 50% off Black Ops 2 and such. They were rabid and fighting and such. There were some blu-rays that I wanted that were right by the games, so I'm just reaching down, trying to grab them, while people are fighting right next to me. Quite fun. I met up with my mom to give her our finds.

After checking out, here's the best part of the night. As you probably already know, I wear a safety vest for fun all the time. Well Wal-Mart employees wore similar vests so people would know that they work there. I was asked to remove it, and then I was radioed over the walkie talkies as a suspicious character. The employee said "alright I got him to take it off. He's also wearing a green striped shirt and a hat. It's not everyday that you're a suspicious character at Wal-Mart. Hehe, that was funny.

After Wal-Mart my brother and I went to GameStop to get a PS3 with their great deal. It came with 4 or 5 games, and they were uncharted and infamous, so it's not like they're crappy games. That's like a $100 value for free, also with a couple months of PlayStation plus, so $20 value free as well. It's quite a deal on the PS3 since we payed like $80 for it if you take away the games and plus. That's pretty cool. What added to the fun was that my friend Max joined us. He's always fun to hang out with. My brother and I were already camped out there, and it was like 10:30 when we got there, and he got there at about 11. GameStop opened at 12, and we were the first ones in line.

After GameStop we went to Best Buy. The line wasn't nearly as long as it was last year. It makes sense since we got there 30 minutes after they opened and all the door busters were gone. All that was left was our vulture scraps. I went there primarily for the deals they were having on blu-rays, but when I got there they didn't have as many that I wanted as I thought they would have. I did get a couple and it was just fun hanging out with Max. It was fun either way. Also remember how I said I wasn't able to get Big Bang Theory at Wal-Mart? Well they had it at Best Buy for cheaper. So I got mine there.

Now for a little rant. I think it takes away from the whole "black Friday" thing when stores open before midnight. I mean, it's technically Thursday, not Friday. It was only Wal-Mart for me that had deals before Friday, but still. Well this has been Pokematic signing off and bu-bye.