The holidays where a blur as always. I don't even know if i can remember everything. SO let's recap what i've done since i stopped bloggin a few weeks ago.
First, the little client finally got ahold of me and FINALLY PAID ME. Just in time for XMAS. Thanks.
My 10 year high school reunion was a few days back, just before xmas. I heard about it, but never got an invite. So Jen and I were gonna crash it. We went to dinner at a place right next door and took a look from there. Everybody was VERY VERY VERY over dresses. I was in Jeans and a tshirt, so i decided to bail on it. Brian Chang took some pictures. I didn't really have much to talk about with the people there. I doubt many of them would have remembered me.
Dennis and Andrea had a little party to show off their house. GOD DAMN!!! They did a unfuckinebelievable job on it. It does not look like the same place the Dennis grew up in. It's a brand new house literally.
Ok, then for the normal part of XMAS. My family usually gets in a fight about who's going where for XMAS so i thought i would just piss everybody off this year and ask to go to the Lakers Game. My mom says NO!, Jen says NO!, but i keep workin on em. Finally Jen's dad gets 4 tickets for the XMAS day game against the Kings. So Christmas eve we spend at my Parents house. My mom almost kills herself cooking the best food i could imagine. And you're expecting turkey etc. Nope. All mexican food. She drove down to east la in the morning and waited 2 hours in a line to get tamales. so we all hang out there and drink way too much. Steve and vera were there with all three of vera's kids (justin, jenna, and johnathan) Brian (from down the street) showed up with his wife. all in all it was a great night. (we finished a bottle of tequila that Will had given me a year before)
Jen and i drove home that night and crashed hard. Then we got up XMAS morning to go to Jen's parents house for breakfast and to hang out. Jen's parents have just rebuilt half of their house and it's ALL kitchen. So when i get there Jen's Dad has every item of breakfast cooking on the stove ALL AT ONCE. fuckin huge stove. We hang out there for a few hours and open presents etc. Then Carry comes over from across the street and we see them for awhile. After we're all done there we go back to my parents house to do the presents thing all over again. We hang out there for a while to just relax, then run back to Jen's parents house to pick up Jens brother. We drive back to our house just in time to have Will pulling up in front. Then off to the Lakers at the Staples Center. Well it was a depressing game. The Lakers had the game going ok until the 4th, then they just fell apart. It was still a packed game. And a lot of fun to be there.
After the game we came back and went to Vera's house for her XMAS party. Things were still going on there to the wee hours of the night.
Ok, then i finally got some sleep for a few days.
Jen's dad got us more tickets for the lakers on the 29th. They played the raptors this time and finally had a real blow out score. Jen and I invited Steve and Vera this time, but when Vera couldn't come, steve pulled Rich Monson. So that was a real fun game to watch. Not quite as packed at the Kings game, but still it was a lot of fun.
ok, a few more days of sleep
Then new years. We all went over to Will's house to hang out with a view of LA. Jen and I cooked all day long (well i did help this time) and made two chicken caserols that we took up there. it was a fun night for everybody to just sit around. Jen and i cut out right after midnight cause we had to drag our asses out of bed in the morning to see the fuckin parade. (jen's brother was in it AGAIN). Hilight of that was seeing the stealth bomber and two f117's. Then seeing David march by with the Arcadia high school band. As always we went to the Sclancers after the parade and had to partake of the famous chili. Then back to sleep.
We didn't do much until Saturday. Jen decided that we needed to go to the beach. So that's what we did. We went down and parked on balboa island and then walked all the way to the ferry, took it over to the peninsula and then walked out on the pier. On the ferry trip back Jen said that she thought she has seen Suzi Stebbins. (unknowingly, Jen had not seen my PARENTS sitting right next to Suzi on the ferry going the other way) So then we headed south to crecent beach cove and hung out there for sunset. Then further south to dana point to go to dinner at Cannon's overlooking the harbor.
That brings us to yesterday. We got up and cleaned the house, took down the xmas tree and just caught uo on shit we needed to do. Then Will came over at about 4 with all his new toys for his computer. He left at about 2 AM after i had installed a new CDR and Hard Drive and installed OS X and then pulled one video board and installed another. Oh, and i had to do the OS install 3 times to get the fuckin thing right. YAWN. that was long. I gots pictures of it all. And i'll post em all in the next entry.
