Merry blah blah blah... gimme stuff.

Popped home for the holidays, and did brunch at mom's on the 24th, dinner at dad's, then got up and everybody rushed about madly in preparation for heading out the door to go to southern Ontario to visit the extended family. Cpeed drove me back into the city (stopped by mom's on the way out of town and she STILL wasn't packed up and ready to go.. surprise surprise. She's always been one to harrass people to hurry up and get ready and get out the door, meanwhile we're sitting in the car for anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes (once) waiting for her, and she's rushing around the house, CLEANING. I know it's nice to come home to a clean house and stuff, but you do that in the days leading up to the trip, not when the rest of the family is sitting in the car, waiting to go...) where I dumped my stuff at Amanda's and waited for a little while before heading over to Rob and Liz's place for chillin and dinner, which was then followed by ninjanog (mmm, ninjanog). Went back and promptly crashed in bed. Yesterday was low key, and involved watching random things on tv, followed by some FF12 (mmm, FF12) until bedtime. KFC for dinner and a little drinkin' afterwards (mm Strongbow), and bed again. This morning was a normalish morning, though I had to cart my Pampered Chef bag of gifts* home with me on the bus as well as laundry (payment for hooking up Amanda's new washer involved using it to clean my clothes :D ). Home, low key day involving cleaning of various things, browsing of various sites, unexpected girl bums (though really, given the forum, I should have expected it), and... blogging. That pretty much sums up the past few days.

Done old job, starting new one on the First (as long as the guy gets in touch with me, or I get in touch with him, before the First). Old job was killing me in every way possible. My back got to the point where I called in sick about a week ago because I could barely move when I woke up. Given that I know exactly what triggered my back, that job was just bad for it. Hopefully the welding won't be so bad. (Can't WAIT to weld again!)

*Haul includes: Sunset painting by mah mommy (finally.. I've wanted this one for YEARS, and my brother wanted the same one.. so she did one for each of us, and I believe she still has the original), magazine subscriptions (as long as I keep on top of her about them) and some random chocolate, $30 from CD Warehouse (music or movies, not sure yet) from grandparents, CD (Songs of Eden by raintree, from Almonte), The Car Design Yearbook volume 5, pencil set, coloured pencil set (water soluble, meaning watercolourish!), sketchpad, bottle opener, 4 Scottish Ales gift box (1 of each) from Dad and Donna, some more chocolate, a gift card for Chapters from Rob'nLiz, a couple Hot Wheels cars (only 2 this year! *sadface*) and a little Bionicle figure-set from Amanda. I don't think I missed much. Oh, Dad also has some stuff in the mail or something for me.

Aside from that... yeah. Was good to see family for the holidays, but it's not home any more. Home is gone, now being loved by, and sheltering, a new family. Makes me sad... It's easier to type it than to say it to someone over the phone, though.

If I don't say it later, Happy New Year to the few who read this.