Ah Christmas 2012.
An interesting adventure.
As previously mentioned I spent Christmas Eve with the boyfriend's family. Christmas Day I spent with his extended family.
But this was after our traditional Mom, Dad and myself Christmas. In which we got a bunch of snacks and random stuff.
Like ice melt.
And a furby.
It's purple and pretty and Carter will hate it.
I splurged on mom this year. Which she will realize after New Years but she says her favorite present was this massive book of sudoku's.
Is is sudoku or suduko?
I say suduko but I think it's actually supposed to be sudoku.
Oh well.
Anyway, so I got a lot for her and I got dad some music DVD's cause the ones he has he watches repeatedly and then makes other people watch them with him.
Meaning if he likes the Johnny Cash one I gave him or the other one he'll open next week it'll be my own fault.
Which I can't say about Moonshiners.
Swamp People perhaps, but not Moonshiners.
Never Moonshiners.
Run if you hear the word "Moonshiners".
Mom and I attempted but didn't get far.
Yet another one of his boondock reality shows.
I should keep a tally.
First there was Swamp People, then Big Shrimping, now there's Ax Men and Duck Dynasty...
I'm sure by the time I come home this weekend there will be more.
Anyway, so there were some small gifts and a VACUUM, woohoo! - shutup, it was on my list - and some spiced tea and then they were off to church and I was off to the boyfriend's to head out to see the extended family.
Every year they do something similar to ours where all the extended family gets together, eats a lot of food, does a gift exchange and then play cards.
It was an interesting adventure. He has even more family than me which is saying something cause I've got 20 cousins on one side and 11 on the other. But both of his parents have 7 siblings so at this one gathering there were 44 people all together in a room.
And of course the second I walk through the door everyone stops talking and goes, ummm.... introductions?
So I'm his girlfriend.
Which I'm aware of.
But it's nice to hear every once in a while.
He said some names but there are a lot of them and really we just jammed with his brother and sister-in-law.
Whom I love, they're fantastic. His sister and future brother-in-law were with the B-I-L's family, otherwise we would have jammed with them as well.
I was nervous but it wasn't that bad. I walked away with a bottle of Rumchata and he ended up with a cooler filled with redneck beer.
Courtesy of his brother.
We didn't stay for the cards. Our original plan was to head back to the farmhouse for a while to see my parents and then go see Les Mis at 10 but ended up crashing instead.
Not the car.
Crashing from exhaustion.
We did make it to the farm cause I had to get my stuff. Dad forced some reality TV on him and we took a tour of the shop - he has a building in his building.
He's painting a building in his building.
Cause the shop is heated.
He's cannibalizing an old building. They moved it from my brother's place - aka my grandpa's old place - to Dad's shop to be painted and then moved to yet another location.
I'm guessing behind the quonset.
Anyway, after the TV and the tour we packed up my stuff and headed back to the apartment to drop stuff off and the thoughts of Les Mis disappeared and we konked out instead.
Since I had to work this morning and left at 8 he slept in and brought me my keys around noon.
I know, now he's been in both the home branch and the work branch.
Shocking.
Queen of Awesome has met him twice and I'm gonna get so much crap tomorrow from Queen of the Known Universe cause she wasn't around when he came in.
But neither was Slim Shady.
She's ditching me.
I can say that now as it is official.
Which is a total bummer.
First Fearless Leader now Slim Shady.
What's going on with the youth of the library?
Who's next, the New Guy?
Even the chick that got hired the same day I did quit. And we were like the same age.
Anyway, I'm bummed but it's bittersweet for her.
It was nice to see the new AD in action today taking tours and all that. She was my professor I bonded with this semester joking about Koha and all that. The one that let us out early every session?
Anyway hired by the Library Goddess is awesome.
I say as she is my boss.
See how that works?
Anyway, she's great and she'll do great things as AD.
There was a lot going on today since we were closed for two days.
Some interesting stuff but mostly just a single incident was interesting.
An interesting encounter with a patron who claimed I said she could do stuff when I said she wasn't in fact allowed to do so and thankfully I had people there as witnesses, it was a mess.
But whatever, it's over.
The rest of the day flew by. Literally I looked at the clock and it was 5PM.
I think I got about 15 calls in an hour to renew books.
That was fun.
And I stopped by the home branch after work at the work branch cause I checked out a DVD at the home branch when I was there and then proceeded to leave it there.
Woops.
Game of Thrones.
Checking it out previously but never got around to watching it.
Will make more of an effort this time around.
And then after that Oldest Sister talked me into downloading Snapchat.
Which is like text messaging except it's with pictures.
She and Squirt were having far too much fun with it.
But I don't take pictures of myself, I mostly take stuff of stuff around me and since Carter is at the farmhouse - I know I'm super sad he's not here to sleep on my stomach but he likes the farm - it's Richard Castle or random stuff I write down.
Speaking of Castle, I read over last year's Day 12, interestingly enough Mom and I watched Castle again this year. Though last year it was season three, this year it was season four.
Alright, that's enough rambling. On to day 12 of the 12 days of non-sucking Christmas music.
Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck: Day Twelve
So I'm breaking all of my rules about consecutive postings and giving you the exact songs from last year because they're my favorites.
And get used to it cause you'll get the same next year.
If you were around last year it's no surprise that day twelve is The Twelve Days of Christmas.
It's the only song I can say is my favorite even though I hate the original.
Literally, if it weren't for Relient K I wouldn't be able to tell you the actual items given to me by my true love.
Cause I grew up on parodies.
So, here are my favorite parodies along with the Relient K cover.
Indian 12 Days of Christmas by boymongoose
and a totally insufficient dowry
Mashup version by Straight No Chaser
thanks Sensei.
Redneck Christmas by Jeff Foxworthy
classic
Rock version by Relient K
this one plays on my ipod no matter the season
and my personal favorite
Janice Dickinson's modeling version
yep, 1:02 is still my favorite. followed closely by 1:13
The problem with multiple parodies is that whenever I hear an actual version I'll sing a mix of the parodies that goes a little something like this.
12 Pack of Bud
11 Charges pending
10 Minute yoga
9 Years probation
8 Table Dancers
7-11 Workers
6 Cans of Spam
5 Flannel Shirts
4 Italian Suits
3 Former Husbands
2 Giant Breasts
and a totally insufficient dowry.
For last year's day twelve go here: And a totally insufficient dowry.
I do have one more Christmas song to post but I'm saving it for after our family Christmas on the 1st.
Alright, that's enough out of me.
Hope you all had an awesome holiday.
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