Christmas Wrap Up (Har Har Har)

Woah buddy, Christmas has come and gone like a crafty gypsy. I guess this would be considered my first adult Christmas, where I gave more gifts than I received. It was fun. It was fun to shop for the perfect gift for someone. It was fun to not find said perfect gift and then to begin searching out of pure desperation, only to find myself in a 300-deep line on Christmas Eve at Best Buy, screaming "Why Santa, why?" And it was also fun to leave the store and collapse in tears on the hood of a station wagon in the parking lot. It was even more fun when the owner of the station wagon discovered me and tried to cajole me into moving, only to discover that out of Christmas frustration, I had renounced all wordly possessions and claimed the hood of his car as my new sovereign nation. It was also quite a bit of fun when he finally wised up and decided to offer me some goodies out of his car as bribes to get me to leave. The best part though was wrapping these gifts from Santa up, and seeing the looks on their faces when my mom found a half-eaten Egg McMuffin from 1987, my dad got one of those beaded seat covers, and my sister got an expired insurance card. It was pure Christmas magic.

But anyway, I had a good Christmas, and now I'm ready for New Year's. The odds of finding my bloated body on Jan 1, at the bottom of Lake Granbury with a bottle of paint thinner in one hand and a Sega Genesis controller in the other? Roughly even. Needless to say, I wait with breathless anticipation.

PS: New entry up on CarlosJacott.com! Note to all: My one true wish for Christmas, to go carolling with Carlos, did not come true. I will not hold this against Carlos if he asks to move in with me, though.