I hope everybody’s Christmas was festive as festive can be. I had my usual busy holiday, with three church services on Christmas Eve, followed by late night partying, and then two straight days of eating and drinking and opening presents. Totally righteous.
Friday I had off, so I spent most of the day wrapping presents and doing some light cleaning and making a massive standing rib roast (which ended up being delicious, as is to be expected since I’m awesome). Brian came over at about 2 of the clock so that we could repair his brakes, which almost ended tragicomically.
In order to get the heavily-rusted lugnuts off of his left front wheel, I had to stand on the spare-tire-changing-wrench in hopes that my massive weight would loosen things up. What happened instead was that the lug bolt simply sheared off the wheel. I had to send Brian in my car to Pep Boys (I didn’t want to leave my roasting meat) to get more lug nuts and bolts. He returned with what appeared to be identical bolts, but vastly more massive actual nuts, so now on each front wheel he has three old brown-and-rust-color nuts, and one massive silver nut that sticks out about an inch further than the others. Totally classy.
Anyway, we finally got everything apart, and managed to get the brakes changed in just a few hours, and I don’t think that Brian has driven into anything, so they must work okay.
Saturday I was able to sleep in (I was on call and got a bunch of annoying pages), and then did church-related things from about 3pm until about 12:30am, followed by drinks and snacks at Dana’s, followed by sleep.
Sunday morning we got up, did our own presents at home (I got official Napoleon Dynamite chapstick, ’cause my lips hurt real bad), then went to Sarah’s parents, where we exchanged gifts and had brunch and hung out for several hours. Then to my parents for dinner and companionship.
Monday I didn’t have to work, so we drove to my parents to do our fambly gift exchange, and then had dinner there with my grandmother and my aunts and uncles and whatnot. ‘Twas all GOOD TIMES, I tell you.
Nobody got me a new hat for Christmas, but I forgive them, since I didn’t ask for one.
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