Sena's DW :: Watermelon Life

Yesterday Mom, Lee and I had Christmas with my sister, Amy, and sister-in-law, Brittny, and their family, which included Cobin, Sarah, Heather and Brit's brother whose name I CANNOT remember. Literally last night was the first time I'd met him. He seemed nice enough, though. I was anticipating it being a really uncomfortable time, especially with Heather and Sarah there, but it turned out to not be so bad. I survived.

We did our gift exchange before dinner. Amy, Brit and Cobin got me Saw X on DVD and a funny alien-cat t-shirt. Sarah decided to go with shirts for everyone this year even though she doesn't know anyone's size, so she got me a really hilarious shirt that was two sizes too small. She also got me an Angry Cat calendar that's kind of cute and some toys for the cats. But she got Mom a cat plaque that says "spoiled cats live here along with their human slaves" which like... is ZERO DEGREES of anywhere CLOSE to what Mom likes?? And she got Mom and Lee a stuffed animal for some reason, too, so when we got home I ended up with both of those as well.

Everyone seemed to like their gifts from me, which was good. It was awkward watching Heather hand over HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS worth of gifts strictly to Amy, Brit and Cobin. She took like 45 minutes just on her own. One of her gifts was literally just a picture of herself in a nice frame, like?? She was also drinking and that always makes her even more unbearable. But then basically, Heather is unbearable on the best of days, so there's that.

Dinner was really good (the gravy was AMAZING) and for dessert Mom, Lee and I brought a sweet potato pie (on Amy's request which is CRAZY because Amy doesn't even LIKE pie, but for some reason she loves the sweet potato pie I make XD;;) and a strawberry-rhubarb pie. There were also a few cookies. I had a cookie, and we ended up bringing the remainder of the strawberry-rhubarb pie home. We left the sweet potato pie for Amy, though, lol.

There were three freaking dogs there, all small and yappy and jumping all over everything and everybody and I just really wish they hadn't been there. I SO MUCH PREFER CATS you have no idea. :|

Anyway, I got a good night's sleep last night after everything and the plan was originally to do the tear down and super deep clean out of the axolotl aquarium today but I woke up not feeling very well, so it's getting pushed until tomorrow. I feel bad because the 'lotls really need their tank cleaned but... yeah. I'll do a quick clean of it tonight with the suction thing just to give me a head start before tomorrow.

A bunch of stuff came in from Amazon today. A travel/cosmetics bag, a pair of mini binoculars, gauze pads, a bowie knife, a buck knife and a knife sharpener for my Bug-Out Bag, as well as a tablecloth for Mom and some carpet deodorizer for both my room and Jessie's room and a new case for DVDs because I'm running out of room in the ones I already had. I'm trying to decide if I should be buying a canteen for my Bug-Out Bag, too, but I already have a filtering water bottle in it, so that would be superfluous, right? Yeah.

I ordered a bunch of DVDs off Amazon, now that I know what all I got for Christmas, so tomorrow Abigail, It Lives Inside, Tarot, Sting, Thanksgiving and A Quiet Place Day One are going to come in. And I ordered Countdown, but it won't be in until at least January 3rd. I also ordered Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey 2 off ebay, since Amazon didn't have it. And I ordered the book "Sawkill Girls" by Claire Legrand, which will come in on Tuesday. There's still a bunch of stuff on my list that I'll have to pick up later, but that's a good start for now, I think.

I'm DYING for a Cadbury Creme Egg right now but it is NOT the season for them so I'm SOL and it's like. Boo.

Today I actually worked on Temper Tantrums a bit. Not much but more than I have in a while, so hopefully I can get into it and get it written. For some reason I'm struggling with this one, as well as with Hunting Souls, and it's frustrating. Then again I haven't worked on TKA in a while either. My ADHD has been playing up really badly lately, it's no good, no good. Definitely gotta talk to Dr. K about it when I see her at the end of January...