by priest and people sungen

today i feel: awesome
today i'm hearing: venture aid 2006
today i'm thinking: sleep is lovely, but staying up is too

First thing's first! A gift from Jackson Publick for all of you who worship the House of Venture. It's pretty fantastic if you ask me. Happy Christmas to all of you who celebrate it!

I woke up this morning feeling utterly fantastic and I've no idea why. Maybe it's that I got an actual good night of sleep for the first time in days or that my back wasn't hurting like it usually does or I was wearing new trousers or that my room smelled slightly of boy. I don't know! The important thing is that it hasn't worn off yet and that's proving to be very useful. We had to have dinner with my racist grandparents today (even though we had dinner with them yesterday. ...And the day before that. ...And a few days before that...) and JPalm was being a bit of a douche about it. And that was frustrating me because I've done the whole grandparent thing pretty much constantly for the past week and I wasn't vocalising my snarkiness about the affair so why should he? I don't know. But it came back and I was able to practise recorders with Mum and actually have fun with it. That's something to be treasured. Mum and I have been at each other's throats a lot (she's clingy right now with the parents dying and the kids gone and all that. I'm trying to be independent. This is a dangerous situation). I'm glad we have moments where we can get along really well.

I hung around with Tony Saturday night. It was brilliant. I learned how to change a tyre! Funny story; ask me later. It's very involved and requires a great many hand gestures. We ran amok in Bloomington and watch SNL and stayed up half the night talking. It was really nice. He's a pretty cool cat. Not to stroke his ego or anything. And my parents seem to think he's a nice guy (at least my mum does; Da doesn't give opinions of my friends unless they do something 'stinkin' weird') and Sebastion really likes him. Really likes him. I mean, my cat's a whore, but theriouthly. Whoa.

I've been hanging around with Stacy a lot this break. I miss that kid a lot. It's like being six again; I love it. It's not very often you get to hang around with friends you never see. The U-High children have been rather vacant in my life, at least the ones that are my age. I'm supposed to give AKraft, Jessie and Hilary calls sometime, but that's not going to happen today. Maybe tomorrow, I don't know. I thought tomorrow would be taken up by clotted cream and Boxing Day madness with my crazy English employers, but that's apparently changed. Meh. Who knows. They're English; they don't believe in time.

That's not ethnocentric, it's just true.

I think my wireless connection has died, so I'm going to go fix it before posting this. Hope all of you are well and warm. Have a wonderful, wonderful day.