December 26, 2006

• Saturday morning was Christmas Eve breakfast, this time at a place in Bolingbrook called Escapades. Much to my surprise, I was not the first one to arrive, Scooty was just pulling up and Jt and Amy were already there. If I was forced to say one good thing about Amy its that she seems to have made Jt be on time. Seems like he is not only on time to places now, but actually early. Anyhwho, breakfast could not have gone any smoother, especially since we had a record 26 people. This was the 10th year of Christmas Eve breakfast and it all started back in 1996 when it was just Jt and myself. Not much to talk about the actual breakfast except to say that the waitress was nice enough to spray whipped cream not only in my hot chocolate, but also in my mouth when I jokingly requested it.

  Sunday night, we went to my cousin's house. As usual, I wound up playing Santa for all the kids that were there. Most of them were young and therefore afraid of me. Even though I would have my kids believe in Santa as well, I still can't understand why parents put there kids through the whole Santa Claus myth. I mean, most kids are frightened of Santa until they are 3 or even 4, and to top it off, Santa aint even real. Still, it was a lot of fun. My cousin's 4 year old son, who is always very hyper, was bugging the hell out of me for gifts, even after I gave him a gift.

  The whole night was pretty cool. I got to see my cousin's son from Florida for the first time in like 10 years. Honestly, it was over 48 hours ago so I can't be excpected to remember anymore. Yesterday, however, I woke up and made breakfast for all of my siblings (well, not Carmen, she is in Colorado) along with my niece. Later in the evening, we went to Mark's in laws house for dinner and playing games. We played a home version of one of those quiz games that they have in bars. Again, I don't remember if we won. Stupid fucking short term memory. I do, however, remember playing Win, Lose, or Draw and getting our asses kicked (it was guys vs girls). The cool part was that you hook it up to the tv and draw on a pad that allows everybody to see what you are drawing on the tv. Pretty cool.

  Really, that's all I can remember for now. And its not like I had drank anything, I was sober the whole weekend. Stupid short term memory, I should have smoked pot, at least I would have an excuse for not remembering.

  James Brown is no longer "Living in America".

  Shit, I almost forgot. Ok, I did forget, I'm posting this like 2 hours after I wrote the rest of this. During Christmas Eve breakfast, I got Dave to wager with me as to who would get their food last, out of everybody in our 26 person group. I said Kelli and Dave said Rene. I figured they would be the last 2 to get their meals because for some reason, they usually get screwed with meals. Sure enough, Rene was the second to last to get her meal and Kelli was the last to get her's. I just don't understand it, Kelli always orders something easy like pancakes or oatmeal and it always takes the longest.

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