Christmas 2006 Haul

So this weekend was very interesting. Me & Chase, and my three cousins Cath, Rach and David all went to Mema’s Thursday, and stayed with her until Christmas Eve, like we have since we were kids.
Thursday was spent shopping, and we rented some movies to watch that night. Unfortunately I had brought my Xbox, not my Playstation, so we didn’t have a DVD player to hook up to our TV upstairs. We set Rachel’s laptop on top of the tv and we all settled down on the big bed to watch… and about 10 minutes into the movie…
BAM!
Suddenly we were all laying at an angle!
Yep, the bed had broke. That was not the first time this had happened – last time was several years ago, when Ash was with us at Mema’s, so we blamed Ash. (So this time, we blamed Chase.)
That time before, we also tried to hide the fact we’d broken the bed, but it didn’t work, Mema found out. This time around I told her the next morning, because it wasn’t like it was our fault.
We moved the mattress off and put it on the floor next to the bed, so that’s where me and the girls slept that night.

So we’re sleeping on the floor. At 5am the next morning, I wake up to Mema calling my name. She’s standing in the door, telling me the alarm on my car is going off.
Luckily it’s still warm here, I went outside with her in my PJs (still dark out) and my car was fine – no alarm. I walked around it and looked at it, shrugged it off and went back to bed. I’d just settled back under the blankets when I heard Mema calling me again, saying it was going off again. Once again by the time I got downstairs, it had stopped again. I checked it again, messed with the locks… didn’t know what to do. I went back to bed. I laid there and got worried that someone was trying to break into it or something, so I went back down, and Mema and Daddy Bob both said it had gone off again. I sat in the little room facing the driveway to see if I could see it go off – I never did. Mema made me go back to bed.

By the time I got up in the morning, Mema said it had gone off several more times. We decided to put my car in the garage and move my grandparents’ in the driveway, so I could leave my car unlocked with the alarm off. When I did, I noticed the trunk light was on – though the trunk was shut. I went out and opened it and closed it again, made sure nothing was in the way of it, and the light still came on when I started the car.

It didn’t do it again the whole weekend, even though I went ahead and locked my car… so who knows! It was a very interesting night.

Next day was shopping, we saw the Pursuit of Happyness (good), Chase fixed the bed… then saturday we stayed in, mostly. Played board games, the usual.

Family came up christmas eve… i got lots of stuff…. clothes, a little camera, gift cards, a new set of His Dark Materials, “Fairest” by the same author as “Ella Enchanted” and a lot of other stuff I don’t remember…
Nana is doing a lot of my room for me, so I didn’t get much from her- she just brought one of the shelves they’d gotten me so I’d have something to open LOL

This morning my parents, Chase and I opened presents —


The tree…


The dogs opened their presents first! They got some treats, and each got a t-shirt and a coat. LOL.


Indy’s Skull and Crossbones t-shirt

The saga of Chase’s Sopwith Camel
He wanted this plane for christmas, for months he asked for this plane. It was not inexpensive, so if I got it for him it would be basically all he got from me.
I bought it over a month ago, and hid it in my parents closet. But, I didn’t want him to know everything he was getting for christmas, how boring! So I didn’t tell him I got it.
The next time he went into the hobbystore, he saw that the Sopwith Camel was gone. He asked the guys who worked there when they would get another in, they said next week, did Chase want them to put it on hold for them? So he put the dang thing on hold. I had my mum call – since that day Chase was with me and I couldn’t make the call – and tell them not to put it on hold (though the person she talked to didn’t know anything about it)
Then, last week, he went in again and saw the Sopwith Camel out on the shelf. The guy working there recognized Chase and said, “Oh, that’s yours, isn’t it!” and took it down and put it in the back with Chase’s name on it. I had to call over there from work and tell them to put it back out, I already had one! LOL
I kept up the ruse that I hadn’t gone to get it yet, and then we left for Jackson thursday morning… and he “knew” I still hadn’t bought it. That night I told him that I hadn’t been able to spend the money yet — I had to wait for my car payment to come out (comes out the 21st), plus with all the money I’d had to spend on my room, and buying Spamalot tickets a while back, I just didn’t have the extra cash. I asked him if he could wait til I got paid again, and apologised I wouldn’t have it for Christmas morning. He was very sweet and understanding.

I had bought a little $5 model of a Sopwith Camel off ebay – when I wrapped it, I put a little note in saying “Look in my parents’ room” – so when he opened that this morning, he saw the note and went and saw the big Camel! LOL It was funny, I had him completely fooled!


Chase and his plane

My gifts from my parents and chase:


Chase got me the Animated Leia statue! šŸ˜€ And the armpiece for my Hoth Leia costume.
He also got me a ceremonial Leia necklace, and a Beauty and the Beast statue, but both of those things haven’t come yet, so no pics yet šŸ™‚
More fun stuff I got: Disney princess stationary & calendar, a Belle pin, new (purple!) towels, Superman Returns, a book I’d really wanted by one of my fav authors, Belle ornament, Anakin and Obi-Wan ornament, Clone Wars ornaments, Python’s Autobiography of the Pythons, a Target gift card, a Home Depot gift card ($200!!!!!!!! I can get the ceiling light I wanted!), monkey socks (not pictured, because they were on my feet), Leia & my armpiece.

Chase got a bunch of stuff too, an XMradio for his car, the sopwith camel, multiple planes, new shoes, Duck Vader (a rubber duck dressed like Vader), and I also got him a new mandalorian codpiece LMAO

So now it’s time to get up and get dressed and go have lunch/christmas with my dad’s side of the family, then later tonight Ash & family will be coming over, and we’re going to go see Night at the Museum!

Then the rest of the week is wedding stuff. Tons, and tons, and tons of Melissa’s wedding stuff. Tuesday chase is going over with melissa to go over slideshow stuff… wednesday — bridesmaid luncheon, and that night, bridesmaids night on the town… thursday I couldn’t get off work, so I can’t go help decorate (darn), friday morning got my hair stuff, and then the actual wedding at six…
and then nothing for weeks… whoohoo! šŸ™‚

Merry Christmas!!!!!! šŸ™‚

eta: I forgot! I left out the velvet mum got for me! It’s the swirl velvet I wanted for funeral padme… that means I’ve got all my materials now! I can start working on it!! šŸ™‚