What does it say about me ...

... that I'm more giddy about Yuletide opening in something like thirteen hours than I am about Christmas Eve stuff?

Not that I'm not excited about Christmas Eve stuff, although anything I'm getting I'm probably getting tomorrow since tonight is extended-family-presents and tomorrow morning is stuff my mom and dad bought me. Mostly what I'm doing tonight is cooking while everybody else goes to church (ah, the joys of being the only non-Catholic) and watching everybody else open presents. And then I'll sleep over my parents' house, and then I'll wake up tomorrow and open presents and make a run for it before my mother makes me watch a parade on TV or something.

But Yuletide! YAY! I love fic exchanges, no matter how much stress they put me through. And I've got two in it this time, which is cool. I'm pretty sure it's not to easy to tell that I wrote one of them, but I think the other one's much easier if you've been paying attention and you know how I write. But it was one of those last-minute stocking stuffer stories, so I couldn't resist.

Today's embarrassing admission: I really want to see The Surreal Life Fame Games. Sad but true.

Today's other embarrassing admission: When I don't want to curse around someone, I say, "Oh, bother," in all complete seriousness. It's quite possibly the dorkiest thing I do.

For the record?

I am twenty-nine. My brother will turn twenty-one in April.

My mom? Still writing "From Santa" on all the Christmas presents.

HEEEEEE.

Oh, sure, this happens today.

My computer is not registering that my Zen is hooked up to it.

I mean, it is, somewhat. It's charging the battery, and when I plug in the USB cable it dings and asks me what I want to do with it, but then the organizer starts up and it's not even registering it's there. Neither is it showing it's there when I check the computer.

I've tried resetting the player, I've tried switching USB ports, I've tried switching USB cords. Nothing is working, and it's really annoying me because I have nothing better to do until I have to do family stuff and I was going to kill time stuffing the damn thing with the MP3s I hadn't already put on there.

Anybody got any bright ideas about how to get it to work?

More Christmas stuff

1. It's warm and sunny out. The hell? C'mon, all I'm asking for is some flurries.

2. My dad is currently having a field day reading the stickers on the back of my laptop screen, which were the two bumper stickers from Wincon ("Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his ... huh?") and three from work -- "As Seen On Tv", "Parental Advisory Explicit Content," and "Chopped and Screwed Version". It's a theme, albeit one only I get. ;)

3. I MADE MY MOTHER'S COOKIE TRAY LIST THIS YEAR! *twirls* You don't understand. Starting in October my mother starts baking cookies and freezing them and then come Christmas she makes these huge-ass cookie trays and gives them to family and friends. It's like Masters tickets or season-long seats for the Giants. Someone else has to die or something for a spot to become available. I'm all a-flaily because I've got COOOOOOKIES.

4. AMC is showing Miracle on 34th Street all day long. Cooooool.

Bored now.

So everybody's gone off to church, except my brother who's almost done with work and my dad who's outside in the game room over the garage watching football. Which leaves me, alone and waiting to cook even though I'm not really in the mood and yelling at the cats for misbehaving and watching Pride and Prejudice because I have big heaping unapologetic love for that movie.

If there were any fandoms left in the Yuletide stocking stuffers I knew, I'd be doing that, but instead I'm staring at the clock willing it to go faster.

*drums fingers on tabletop*

*sigh*

Okay, check the pool.

Who had "thirty-seven minutes" on the amount of time it would take my relatives to drive me into the safe haven of my brother's room where he's playing video games and making snide remarks about absolutely nothing?

Because if you did, you win.

I'm on my third Smirnoff, and as I said to my mom, keep 'em coming.

*drinks*

Did I mention I get really honest when I get wasted? Oh, this Christmas should be interesting.

Whee!

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY!

*twirls*

Er, I'm still a little buzzed.

Also, I'm up to four Yuletide fics and I may slap together another one if I hurry. Like I said, wheee!