Christmas Eve Shenanigans

I'll start off with a statement of undeniable truth: I love spending time with my crazy family.

True, I might have my laptop out while our evening activities are winding down, but I did just show my father how to use facebook, so I can't say I'm not being social.

Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I came over to my cousin Lisa's place for Christmas eve food and fun. We always arrive pretty early (compared to other relatives of ours) so I got to enjoy the first pick of the h'orderves. My mother makes the best spinach dip ever and puts it into a scooped-out loaf of pumpernickel bread. It's absolutely amazing. Then there's also the stuffed mushrooms, yummy meatballs, christmas cookies, and of course the "mixed drinks". I can't wait until next year, when I can enjoy the alcoholic beverages my family always offers, without worrying that my family thinks I'm obsessed with alcohol. (I've only ever had alcoholic beverages here and one other place.)

Often when we have little family gatherings over here, we play left-right-center with quarters. At Christmas eve we play LRC with presents! Everyone supposedly brings a $5 gift or something wrapped up to use for the game, and we go around the circle 3 times, everyone ends up with a present. This year I almost ended up with an emergency light (which I was going to use the flashing red emergency light for a makeshift rave XD). It plugged into a cigarette lighter so I had to find something else :( Buuuut! From the leftover presents that no one won/wanted I found an awesome magnetic sculpture. It's one of those things you put on your desk with a big magnetic base and little metal pieces that you can move about on top. It's freaking awesome! If I can get my initials spelled out, I'll upload a picture.

An old Christmas eve tradition we used to partake in, when myself and my other cousins were a bit smaller, was going over to one of my aunts house. She has 3 kids, a girl about my age, and two boys, one about 2 years older and one about 2 years younger than me. There'd be this "Santa sleigh" that came around and Santa gave out presents to each kid [The parents gave the gifts to them ahead of time]. This is how I got most of my pokemon games, most notably Crystal. That was the best game ever. I still love that best out of any Pokemon game I ever played. But we don't do it anymore because me and my cousins are older now.

So I just told my father about how much fun the Chanukah party was. We ate tons of delicious Jewish food. Watched How I Met Your Mother, the Sarah Silverman show. Played Pictionary, Life, and Dreidel with chocolate coins. It was a pretty fun evening. I felt bad though that it ran a lot later than expected and I think I disappointed some people.

Well, I'm going back to enjoying the Christmas eve shenanigans. Merry Christmas to the empty interwebs, or perhaps the very few people that actually read this. XD

Edit: Oh my god, we're playing Catchprase. Things are getting exciting now XD