I Survived the Storm

[serafina20]

But just barely. It was pouring down rain in Carlsbad, which was cool. My aunt and uncle's house is huge, and the windows are basically taller than my house. There's nothing blocking them from the rain (except for the nuclear plant or whatever it is) so the house was hit really hard. If it were my house, my office would be in the dining room just for those windows and the view.

It'd stopped raining by the time my family headed home, but it was freezing and I turned into a block of ice. Oddly enough, as I shivered and tried to warm up, I kept coming across frozen!Pippin stories, which I highly enjoyed but didn't quite understand why until this morning. ;P

Yesterday evening was okay. The relatives were better than usual, and the baby was fun, but I was tired and just didn't want to be there. I felt oddly lonely, for reasons I can't really articulate except for being tired of being single, which has been my theme for the last few months. I'm tired of my main company being my family, I guess. I want something new.

My relatives actually gave me presents, which both shocked and frustrated me a little. Ever since I've turned 18, every Christmas, as we watch the relatives open presents, my aunt announces several times that she doesn't give presents to anyone over the age 18 (except her children and my great aunt). Which is fine, except then it's incredibly rude of them to sit there opening their gifts for anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour or longer. So I tend to get a little bit of an attitude just because it's *rude*. I'd planned this year to slip out if the baby got boring and read; I'm attempting Fellowship again and I got American Gods by Neil Gaiman, which I love, and Ziggy, so I was all set for entertainment.

Both aunts got me something (well, last year, my Great Aunt did, but it was a pair of socks, so) and my cousin (well, the baby) got me something, too. I was shocked, but, as I said, the presents weren't the point. The point was I hated feeling like, for an hour or so, my family didn't matter. But, if they want to be nice, I'm not going to complain. For the first timem, probably ever, I didn't feel tolerated. I felt more welcome.

Both my aunt and my cousin got me a journal. Beautiful, gorgeous journals, which means I have to figure out a way to use them, because I don't want them to go to waste. My great aunt got me the treasure version of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teachers, which was nice. As I said, last year, I got socks.


From my mom and dad I got:
POTC DVD
X2 DVD
Ani Di Franco's Evolve (truthfully, this one shocks me; I'd put down this one as a craps shoot, figuring that I'd get the Pink CD I'd also asked for if I asked for both. If I hadn't asked for 2 CDs [besides Joseph Arthur which I starred and highlighted] I would have got nither Pink nor Ani. I'm just surprised it was Ani)
Joseph Arthur CD
American Gods
POTC shirt from Hot Topic
CD tower
gift certificate to movies
Tinkerbelle figurine
Tinkerbelle washcloth
Good Omens

From my brother: Tombstone special edition DVD (Val Kilmer!!!!!)
From my sister: Tinkerbelle key chain, HoHos (well, HoHoHo hos) and 2 wrestling stickers (GoldDust and Stacey Keblier, sadly, but at least she'd tried. Last time I tried, I got Big Show).

My mom got the family a karaoke machine. *evil grin* It's fun.

My Fandom Love:

First is Dasha (I don't know if she has a LJ) from Sentinel fandom. I don't know if I've talked about her before, but I love, love, love her fics so much I have them all printed out an in a folder. I've read her post-Sentinel series about 6 times and No Big Deal 2 or 3 times. Her writing makes me very happy. Dasha's Fics

Next is latxciv for her brilliant and insightful analysis' of SV episodes and being, in general, a voice of reason and sense in the fandom.

happyminion for her great fics and for being such a nice person.

soft_princess for the horribly selfish reason of her being so supportive and enthusiastic about me.

tigress for being fun to hang out to and (even though I can't watch anything she makes because of my connection) for bringing joy to everyone else

and (for today)

garryowen for being practically perfect in every way.

Comments

[tigress35.livejournal.com]

aww, I'll have to burn stuff to a CD for you. Not that it's very much, I've done one video, :)

[garryowen.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm nowhere near perfect today. I'm a big fat grouch!!

Glad you're home safe. That rain was crazy, huh?

Are you an X-files fan? I can't remember... The only Dasha I've read is X-Files and she had this kick-ass story called Blinded by White Light. A lot of fanfic doesn't stand the test of time, but that story really does.

I think it's the same dasha...

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm nowhere near perfect today. I'm a big fat grouch!!

That's why I said "practically". We all have our off days. ;)

The rain was so cool, except for all the saddness that's happening because of it. I always feel really bad when I enjoy something that brings tragedy to someone else.

I never really watched X-files because it was scary sci-fi (I was such a chicken, Star Trek was often scary sci fic, but I stuck it out) and I was, well, too scared. Even of the commercials. Sad, huh? It might be the same person. I'll check it out and see if the e-mail is the same or anything.

Can wait to see you Sunday!

[soft-princess.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Thank you hon.

It's not selfish... much. *wink*

*pets you*