holidays are over

Here’s the pitch slow and straight all I have to swing and I’m a hero.

Anyways! It’s been a while I know- and there’s good reason- the holidays.

Matt and I went down to Texas to hang out with my parents. It was great. We decorated the tree and ate a bunch of really good food. We also saw this cool ice thing at the Gaylord Texan where like 50 Chinese ice sculptors put together an exhibit that they had to keep at 9 degrees Fahrenheit. So they gave everybody these big gold jackets it was a hoot- plus they had giant ice slides you could go down. I will say however that most of the people around us in line and just going through the exhibit made me want to shoot them. They were the rich stupid and beautiful type- ick. I prefer the poor ugly and smart any day. If you don’t know what I mean then I’ll take you to north Dallas and you can see what I mean. Anyways! In Texas we did something that was also kick ass. They sell fireworks starting on the 20th of December so we got a bunch of fireworks and set them off the end of my parent’s dock over the lake at the lake house. It was beautiful and fun to do. One even chased Matt it was pretty funny. Well then later Matt left to go to his home and that left just me and the fam, which was great. Christmas was a great time and I just love Christmas day. Giving gifts and receiving silly things. Like a oversized badminton set that my dad, mom, and brother and I all played with around the pool. Anyways! Then after a couple of days I flew up to Matt’s home of Quincy, IL. We figured that if he had to stay with my family that I would just have to spend time with his family. So Quincy had so many things to offer- late night truck stop eateries, and avenue of lights, the awesome mall, and we went to a brewery restaurant, which was great. It was a lot of fun. And oh we went to the casino close to town- I started with 10 bucks and ended with 10.18. Sweet! After the charms of small town Illinois we came back to Urbana.

And then it was time for Festivus. All old friends came into town and it was great! We exchanged gifts and drank (heavily). It was new years eve and we drank champagne at midnight out of plastic cups and measuring cups ( I didn’t want to use to glass incase someone was particularly cheery). It was so great and between three cameras I think we covered the party. Haha maybe I’ll have pictures up on facebook or something soon.

And so by now most everybody from the party has left town to go back to their cities and jobs. So it’s quiet and boring now. But that’s okay. It’s nice to have our apartment back to ourselves.

I’ve been thinking of joining a fitness center because I need more exercise but I’m so tired after work that I don’t know if I’d use it… I’m going to continue to think about it.

Singing ahhhhhhh ahhhhhh ahhhhh ahhhhhhhhh ahhhh aaaaaaaaah.