Merry Christmas

I love Christmas; it's my favourite time of year. The last two days I've had a great time despite my legs seizing up last night. I'm really tired now so this won't be a long or eventful post but I wanted to write something anyway.

I'm currently sitting in the loungroom at Lala and Cal's place, watching "You, Me and Dupree" on DVD while Roxie runs around playing with her new toys. My feet are killing me.

Yesterday we went to Grandma's for dinner with the family-at-large. It was a great night, full of fun and laughter and many moments of annoyance from Rick. Nobody made comment about my stick though, so I consider it a great night in that respect. When he first walked up the driveway he saw the Christmas lights that I had put up and goes:
Rick: Ummm, these lights aren't waterproof.
Me: Yes they are.
Rick: No they aren't.
Me: Yes, they are. It says on the box.
Rick: Well they don't look like it.
It's hard to convey the tone of voice he used. It dripped in arrogance. Just because he fixes coffee machines he is apparently qualified to tell what lights are waterproof.

AA bought him a television for Christmas. When he saw it the first thing out of his mouth was
Rick: I don't want that! I'm never going to use it!
AA: But it's a really good one.
Rick: I don't care I'm never going to use it; what do I want with that
AA: But it has a two year warranty.
Lala was seething at this point. It broke my heart to hear him speak to AA that way.

Ade was giving an ipod from his father and Grandma. All Rick could say was how crap they were, how they didn't work, how his girlfriend worked in the call centre and there was always problems. Cal said "Shut up Rick, every call centre only receives negative calls."

The girlfriend didn't end up coming although we suspect that Rick went out to see her at one point under the guise of going to the bottle shop. It took an hour and a half. Cal bet $50 he wouldn't come back but sadly he did. He said that he had a flat tyre. I don't think anyone believed him.

We all ate way too much food.

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Today we drove to the coast to have lunch at Cal's parents' place with his parents, his bro Nate, Tia, and Lala's siblings. It was a great day with way too much food yet again. It was blissfully free of annoying cousins. Nate is hot. Hotter than Cal. Really really hot. As you can see, he made an impression.

So that's that. Merry Christmas to all and hopefully I'll have the energy to write more soon.