Christmas wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be. My sister surprised me by deciding that she was completely sick and tired of the whole bullshit between me and Dad, so she called him up, told him she was bringing me over whether he liked the idea or not, and told me we were leaving to go to Dad’s because he was expecting us over there. So I put some clothes on and told Eddie to put shoes on and we went over there for about 45 minutes and had a nice visit and exchanged phone numbers.

I also ended up getting a few new sets of comfy weekend clothes and some jammies, some bigass slippers that look like turtles, a glass paperweight (with a tiny turtle inside), and a new sewing machine (woot! An instruction manual that doesn’t start with “Dear Homemaker!”). Eddie’s parents and Nanny pitched in and bought us a new microwave to replace the one that I’ve had since my days at URI. Eddie got a bunch of Star Wars/M&M M-Pire figures and a Darth Tator and some assorted doo-dads that I can’t remember offhand. We brought Pickle over to Mom’s, and she enjoyed a fun-filled day of playing in the hallway the entire time. Even the fuzzy got a present - 20ft of dryer exhaust tube to climb through. We had it wrapped around the TV, but it wasn’t steady, isn’t sturdy, and it was making an assload of noise so we pulled it out and wrapped it around the coffee table.

Unfortunately, Eddie had to go to work tonight to move all the Christmas shit out of his department. He’ll be back sometime in the wee hours of the morning. Poor guy, he’s been up since about 7am and probably won’t get in until about 4am.

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