The Holidays Recapped

Well, here's the dish on the real excitement around my house during the holidays...heh heh.

We had a bunch of friends and family over on Christmas Eve and had a present exchange, ate lots of food, and goofed around. Mom, Dad, Steve then came over on Christmas Morning and we opened family presents. I cooked a HUGE breakfast, which we didn't have until about noon, so we skipped Christmas dinner this year. That was kind of weird but very good for all of us who eat way too much during the holidays. Then I had the following week off on vacation, which was nice but I had nothing planned so I kind of just lazed around the house watching TV. It was actually pretty fun, but I didn't do all the things I had sort of wanted to do - like clean out closets and stuff.

New Years Eve was very quiet - my cousin Rose came over. She and I went to the liquor store, bought tequila and margaurita mix and had ooh-la-la margauritas (mine were strawberry, mmmmm). Then she, Ken and I went to the video poker place we like to go to and we played poker with the "regulars" and toasted midnight with champagne they provided. I felt like a dork because I forgot to take some candy we'd set out to take with us, and everyone else had brought food, but...oh, well... I was not going to play because we kind of sprung this on Rosie and she didn't have any money, but greed got the better of me and I decided to just play a $20. Then, imagine my surprise when, about three hands into Joker Poker, it DEALT me FIVE QUEENS! That's $600.00, guys. Dealt it to me! I was surprised but collected my money and kept playing. Lightning didn't strike twice, darn, but it was fun. I gave Rosie some $$ to play with and we played the machines for awhile. I brought home only half of my winnings, but I didn't mind because it gave us a good cushion for playing the rest of the night, so I'm sure glad I won it. Then we came home, she spent the night, we had breakfast the next morning, and hung around the house. Overall, in respect to many other New Year's Eves, it was pretty darn quiet.