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Merry Christmas!
Santa stopped by (the tree is actually in focus in real life, despite what the camera would have you believe) again this year, and I must have been a pretty good kid, because I got a lot of awesome gifts. Perhaps making some chocolate dessert Christmas Eve for "Mr. and Mrs. Claus" had something to do with it. The highlights include:
Star Wars Trilogy on DVD
DDDR Max 2
An apron from my roommate that says "What part of 'It's not ready yet' don't you understand?"
Dave Berry 365 Day Calender
"Pure Vanilla Extract Alcohol" from the Caribbean. Alcohol? "Special" cookies indeed
Some wooden brain teaser puzzles
Wayne Gretsky's 3D Hocky '98 (old skool)
And a bunch of other kitchen stuff
All the kitchen stuff is because I've really been cooking a lot this year now that I have an apartment with its own kitchen. And then I get home and all my parents want me to do is show them what I've been up to the last few months and cook dinner for them. Which it's a little easier at home since I don't have to pay for the ingredients (meat can get expensive when buying pork ribs compared to ground beef for hamburger helper, which is why hamburger helper usually wins), I actually have time to let stuff cook for 3 hours, and I don't have to worry about leftovers like when you're cooking for one.
That dessert by the way was Eskimo Snowballs (which is at appropriately christmas-cookies.com), the only snow Florida will ever be seeing. Can't say the same about Houston though, as it somehow managed to snow there last night. Some kid's Christmas wish came true. Meanwhile it was snowing in Tampa today, but it melted by the time it got to ground level so that it just appeared to be a regular Florida rain shower. Or at least that's what I like to tell myself.
To pass the time while at home, since there's nothing else really going on, I've been watching a LOT of movies. Blockbuster has a movie pass deal for $15 that lets you rent as much as you want, but only 2 movies at a time. But since Blockbuster is really close by, we end getting about 4 movies a day. So I've been seeing a bunch of stuff that there is no way I'd pay $6 to see (cough*Princess Diaries Dos*cough) but for free I'd check it out. Also all those movies I really did mean to see but just didn't have the time. There's still a bunch that I need to see, so hopefully I'll get a chance before going back up to Gainesville.
NORAD's been tracking Santa for 50 years now. I'm surprised they haven't spruced up the graphics on the video's, but then again as a kid I really wouldn't care. Also Santa granted an interview with questions from 1st graders. My personal favorite response: "Didn't you see that documentary, 'Elf,' with Will Ferrell? Just because you haven't seen an elf doesn't mean they don't exist. Have you ever seen Canada?". It's a good point, I'm not sure Canada really exists though, I think it's a great northern conspiracy.
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