i had a pretty nice christmas. my family’s christmas was on the 29th, which was a little weird. i’m fairly sure they picked that day just so they can take advantage of all the clearance sales after christmas.
and marques and i had a nice christmas. he bought me a new ipod, which was very unexpected and slightly embarrassing. it’s very thin and pretty and colorful (it’s weird to see an ipod in color — my last ipod was old and not colorful at all) and unfortunately, i have not used it to its full potential yet. but i have plans for it.
other things marques bought me include the complete david sedaris box set (because i love david sedaris and i love him more when he reads his stories aloud), a huge bottle of dkny be delicious perfume (my favorite!), mac pigment, “are you afraid of the dark?” dvds and lots of books! best christmas ever — it was great.
my family threw me a christmas wedding shower, or so it felt like. my big present was my dining room table and chairs, which i am amazingly excited to have in my house. the table is gorgeous — my mom has the best taste, seriously. and then the chairs she picked out are amazing too — dark cherry with little squares on the back… man, i cannot tell you how excited i am about this table. i want it in my house like, yesterday. but i have to wait until my uncle can come down with his truck to deliver it. oh, the curse of owning two mid-size sedans. especially when one can’t even make it to charleston to begin with.
other things that my family bought me included all sorts of kitchen stuff (i swear, you tell people you like to cook and then they buy you kitchen-everything) which was actually really nice. my grandma bought me these two nice vintage-y looking red metal mixing bowls, and my mom bought me a very nice knife set (expect a “and then i had to go to the hospital for stitches” type entry soon). i got a huge wooden pastry board, which will work out well for the only kind of pastry i make, which is dumplings (and even then, i use dixie’s recipe). my uncle bought us season 4 of the west wing, so there will be much rejoicing now that i finally get to see josh lyman again (josh lyman = hot).
my grandma also bought me a really awesome messenger bag which will be used for the next 10 years. and surprisingly, my mom bought me a sewing machine, which i was definitely not expecting. do you see why it felt like a wedding shower? i’ve now decided that if marques and i ever get married, we’re going to register for dvds and cds and books because we won’t need anything else.
and unfortunately, i was deathly ill for the past week. it started on tuesday, when my nose started running. it was not a good time for me. i was sitting at my desk at work with a gimondo headache, my nose was leaking, i had already used up 10 tissues (and i am a very conservative tissue-user)… i was not a happy girl. i came home on tuesday and then my throat started hurting.
on wednesday, i woke up to a throat that felt like it was about 400 degrees hotter than the rest of me. i had a fever. my nose was still running. my head hurt. i looked gross and pathetic. i called off work and stayed home, curled under a blanket on the couch, drinking endless amounts of lipton diet green tea (my new addiction). luckily, bravo was showing a top chef season 1 marathon, so i watched that until marques came home from work and liberated me from the spell.
also, on wednesday, we got a wii. so when marques came home, he set it up and started playing with it. it’s probably the coolest thing in the entire world, and i would like to find the japanese people that created this and kiss them. marques bought the new zelda game last night, so uh, there goes my boyfriend.
anyway, i’m much better than i was on wednesday and thursday. and tonight is new year’s eve! ruth ann invited me to her house to celebrate, but i think i might just want to be boring and stay home and watch the sopranos. i’m still a little sick-tired and marques is sick now too, bless his heart.
and tomorrow, it’s the first day of 2007, and also the start of birthday weeks for me. i’m going to make my famous potato soup and also some meatballs. because i like potato soup, and i like meatballs. and when birthday week starts, i get what i like.
so to recap:
yay for christmas and awesome boyfriends!
yay for wedding shower christmases!
yay for my new table!
yay for the new wii!
boooo to being sick!
yay for potato soup and meatballs!
yay for the start of birthday week!
