A Day in Review -December 25th

Saturday, December 25th 2004

-I got a ton of presents books, games, stuffed animals, and other things. And I didn't fall down the stairs like last year.

Sunday, December 25th 2005

-Woke up at 2:30 am went back to bed, woke up at 4 am and couldn't sleep. Family opened presents at 6-9am. I got some books, Gameboy games, a dragon statue, dragon wall hanging (that I love and have hanging up right now.), Narnia books on tape, candy, bed spread, Yugioh movie episodes, yugioh cards, movies of Sky High, Charlie and the Chocolate Factor soundtrack and other things like jewelry, clothes and games. Went to church til 2:30 then grandparents came over and gave me a homemade blanket that Grandma Dirchi made out of Grandma Retrun's fabric that she had. Gave grandma a ceramic thingy (a weird random art piece I made in class) and spent the rest of the day relaxing.
-Did I ever tell you what my favorite star is? Well my favorite star is Sirius (the Dog Star) in the Canis Major constellation. Now what's really Ironic is that my Celtic Birth Symbol is the Dog Star! Isn't that Ironic that my favorite star turns out to be my celtic birth symbol? I thought that it was so cool! And my parents gave me a necklace that shows the Dog Star! I'm never going to take it off!! (I did eventually....but it was a looong looong time before I did.)
P.S. I don't care what people say. Santa is Real!

Monday, December 25th 2006

-I didn't sleep real well (like always) Opened presents at 6. I got makeup XP, gloves, shirts, 5 Dvds -cars, national treasure, superman returns, The Thief Lord, and Fantastic 4. Gameboy games, 16 books, a mp3 player, and a portable DVD player! I gave my mom a figurine but accidentally broke it the next day while playing the piano. :( (was doing a recap of this day, hence why I knew what happened to it.) I got Daddoo two longsleeved shirts -green and magenta red. Kikay and Meralto I got them a Piece of Paper and a Flower. Haha. It wasn't their real presents. I got them two dragons a black one and a silver one that my friend Tay made for me. Then we slept the rest of the time.

Thursday, December 25th 2008

-MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Its was strange today. Kikay, Meralto and I are usually so excited for Christmas morning that we wake up every couple of hours impatiently waiting for 6am to arrive so we could open presents. .... Not this year. Kikay surprisingly woke us up at 7 am. Oops! Overslept. I think we did so because we knew Santa Claus was only bringing us a stocking full of gifts this year. So we -I after being woken up from a school nightmare. Trudged upstairs to see what we got. I was suffering from a major headache and was still sick. :( So we started with Santa's gifts in the stocking. I got a stuffed cat that makes sounds when a button is pushed, plastic shark statues, a bunch of candy, some Gaia and Itunes's Gift Cards and a watch. I was glad I got the watch since mine was kinda broken. But I was said there wasn't anything more expensive -like a camera. Oh well...maybe the parents would give me a camera. :P Okay so I gave my family Dad: A soup bowl, 2 cups, and 2 other cup/bowl hybrids made by my school's ceramics classes (they do a sale of stuff every year.) He seemed to enjoy them, having a work bowl and mug. A cup for tea -herbal- a cup for sodapop and an extra cup just in case. lol. (Not positive but I think he only has one still in one piece...not positive.) Mom: A Barry Manilow CD and a will tree figure that is called "Love of Learning." Kikay: A willow tree figure w/ 2 people that's called "Heart and Soul" and a tiny box that had a snowflake on the side. I told her I got her a "snow tree." lol. And Meralto I got him a wallet with an eagle on it, and some weights. In return I got from Meralto: 2 wood carvings he did himself. One with my name the other with my favorite constellation Canis Major. He also gave me a Maroon Body Pillow that I absolutely love (and still have them all.) and a willo tree figurine that has an angel holding a rose. Kikay got me the Harry Potter soundtrack. Daddoo got me a necklace that had a symbol from Brandon Sanderson's book Elantris it's called AonEne and means Wit/Cleverness. :) I like it as well. ^^ Mother Dearest got me....sadly no camera...but Heroes Season 2. :) :( I was sad. No camera! Oh Well...can't be spoiled. So me suffering from being sick went back to bed hoping that my headache would go away. Next thing I knew, around 10:30-11am I heard the DoorBell go off and this HO HO HO!! Curious to see what was going on I forced myself back out of bed to see who was at the Door. I got to the front door with my siblings just as dad shut it. Wanting to go back to bed I started to turn when Meralto asks "What is that?" I turn and see...this see of red -took out my contacts to sleep- They were 5 GIANT STOCKINGS at least 4 feet tall. lol. Daddo gleefully told us later that our faces were sooo surprised as we weren't expecting any more presents. Inside my stocking was a white horse stuffed animal, A statue of The Thinker, The movies: Wall-E, Prince Caspian, and the Dark Knight. Some Art supplies -the parents want me to work on my drawing because I'm good apparently lol. A couple of books -the Tales of Beetle the Bard, and Dewey. a 2009 calendar and... A CAMERA! :D Hehe I was really happy about that. Oh I forgot to mention what Grandma gave me. 3 Home stitched Dish Towels. Mine was the only homemade gift of the lot. :) Mother Dearest's gift was a ceramic pitcher in the shape of a Parrot. ^^;;; That was funny to see Mom's expression. Anyway, after we unloaded the Giant Stockings, me still suffering from that headache went back to bed after taking an Advil, for an hour or two before I was woken up to go to Grandma's House. Miraculously my headache was gone! We went to Grandmas to exchange gifts before heading back home where I spent the rest of the day on the computer and the night watching Prince Caspian with my parents. :) It started snowing again, a major storm, many of the roads here are shut down because of the bad weather. Too bad mom has to go to work tomorrow. I don't think it would be very enjoyable for her in the morning if its still snowing and cold. I hope she gets to work safely. Again. Merry Christmas! :)

Friday, December 25th 2009

-MERRY CHRISTMAS!! After dozing for a while I was startled awake by Meralto pounding on our door and POPSUB playing some loud Christmas music as well. lol. All the family including MOMAT and POPSUB (we were at their place in Colorado for Christmas this year.) gathered at the downstairs Christmas tree to open our stockings, presents for family and presents from Santa Claus. In my stocking I got a stuffed kitty, mascara, juggling balls, candy, drawing pencils, a bracelet, an ITunes gift card, and a flash light. Meralto gave me a scarf, pillow, and wolf plaque. Kikay gave me two sets of bracelets and a cool sparkily wooden thing that spells out Dream (still have with me.) Santa and our Parents gave me The Scarlet Pimpernel Movie! Heroes, a bunch of books...oh there was also a small knife in my stocking. ^^ A necklace, a sweatshirt with my college on it, a stuffed animal Dog with the college on it, A wolf T-shirt, a skirt and socks -also in the stocking, a rock wand, and Meralto also gave me a wooden plaque with a mountain lion drawn on it done by himself. I gave Kikay some bracelets as well as a cloak. Meralto I gave a meteorite and an obsidian wand and a piggy bank. I gave Mother dearest a necklace with hearts, a bronze bear, and the HP6 movie. Gave Daddoo a labyrinth book and a bronze buffalo statute. Poor UB can't stand the sound of Styrofoam so he had to plug his ears a lot. :( UB I gave a pendulum and a rock wand. AT I gave a rock wand, angel thing and a rock "bell." After finishing w/ our big gifts Kikay -keyboard, Meralto -guitar, AT -banjo. UB...a shirt? or a book... Mom...I forgot, Dad was an ancient bear tooth and myself Lion King 1&2 movies and CDs -also got a vocal point CD. then after we were done downstairs, and AT and UB were done ooing and awing over the gifts we snuck into their stockings we went upstairs to open the gifts from AT & UB. I got a couple more books, some sock shoes, a rock egg, and my belated birthday present turned Christmas present an 'axe' with dragons on it So cool! (ended up breaking it when I got back to college. >.< Soo depressing. Still have it though.) A music turtle, a "creating dragons" drawing book a "Me 2" thing. No idea what it is lol. A set of cutting knives, two more shirts, a ramen bowl. lol (still have those as well.) lol AT knows me too well. I love Ramen Noodles, and a blanket. Then as a surprise AT gave Dad, Mom and I each a bedside table.  lol definitely the first time I've gotten furniture for Christmas lol. All in all I think we were spoiled rotten this year with all our gifts. :) Ended up cleaning up pretty quickly to prepare for AT's parents coming over. They came over along with their dogs.-Oh gave Kandi a squirrel toy and Chicken jerky (their Dachshund.) Gave Biscuit (their other big white fluffy dog) a ball and a bone she ate in like 30 mins. lol Had dinner/lunch of Turkey, Ham, rolls, veggies, stuffing, and potatoes. Like Thanksgiving. lol. After Dinner Kikay and I escaped downstairs to listen to our music. Ended up taking a long nap waking up around 7pm. By then the grandparents were long gone. Hung out upstairs for a couple of hours before everybody started heading for bed since AT's been up since 4 am and everyone else since 6. Kikay and I watched Lion King 2 downstairs. :) Such a good movie. ^^ All in all it was an awesome Christmas and I hope AT/UB/and family enjoyed it as much as I did. It was a good first Christmas away from home. :)

Saturday, December 25th 2010

-Merry Christmas! I woke up this morning around 6:20 and snuck out of my bedroom to go see what was in the front room before going back to my room and dozing until Meralto woke me up with Christmas music. We opened presents. :) I got books, movies, and candy as well as gift cards, stuffed animals and Money! Meralto gave me a giant Bear stuffed animal and a necklace with an S on it. He "accidentally" switched our presents so I would once again open once of Kikay's gift (as I have a habit of doing that -not on purpose basically every year.) Kikay got a necklace as well but with a K. Kikay gave me two books _Fallen_ I gave Daddoo a neck massager and 2 soup bowls. Mother Dearest the mentalist season 2, a sweater and a ruby bracelet. Kikay I got a bracelet of topaz -blue, a sparkily hat, Meralto go t a neck massager and a body pillow. Went to Grandmas to exchange gifts. She gave us fingerless gloves which are my favorite! And a homemade decoration of an angel head with ribbon. Came home and watched a bunch of seasons of Castle while eating turkey. Aunt G dropped by for a bit to chat and we basically relaxed.

Sunday, December 25th 2011

-Merry Christmas! :) My dad started out pretty early. I officially woke up a little after 6am to let the dogs out and check out the presents. We opened our stockings around 7:30am with the parents. lol Meralto gave the parents their "wake up call" via a puppet beaver called Dr. B that he uses to teach kids with. We also opened our new pillows, but the rest of our presents had to wait til after church. So we got ready for church and went to the sacrament meeting, it was a Christmas program of songs. Most of them were good though they were all soothing so it was hard to stay awake. Came home from church and opened presents. With the stockings Daddoo also gave each kid a card with his testimony written in it. That was sweet of him. ^^ So, I gave Daddoo -a set of bells and a knife with wolves on the handle and sheath. Mother dearest I gave Escape from Zarahemla and Castle Season 3. Kikay I gave Beauty and the Beast Barbie dolls, a book called "Steel" a horse figurine and a "chocolate" calculator (not real chocolate, real calculator that looks like chocolate) Meralto I gave a knife similar to Daddoo's but with Eagles as well as laser pointers. I think they were all excited about their gifts. ^^Kikay gave me a Lucky Dalmation stuffed animal and a necklace. Meralto gave me a leather bracelet and some chocolate. Mother Dearest gave me a Popcorn popper with popcorn and butter. Daddoo gave me a knife, I also got books, a calendar, make up, movies, a tool box, a laptop desk thing, more candy, Casey gave me a walnut with a $20 bill inside. :) (was paranoid it was a ring. :S Loved all the presents I got ! Especially the main present which for me was an Ipod touch. ^^ I spent the rest of the day messing around with it. Its a lot of fun. Oh I dropped by the singles ward to see my friends (and get presents) only Katie showed up out of the 3 that hadn't given me anything yet. She gave me some D.N. Angel books. Vl 2,3,4, 6&7. She said she found them for a really good price which leads me to believe she got them from the D.I. or something. What's sad....is that I already had all the books. :S BUT I really like her gift because it shows me that she was thinking of me. She knew I liked D.N. Angle. She saw an opportunity to get a lot of books for a low price and she took it. ^^ I'm really happy. Hung out at home until the grandparents showed up to exchange gifts. Us kids gave Grandpa a Mannheim Steamroller CD because he really likes them. Kikay gave Grandma a pillow she sewed herself. -helped stuffed it. In return they gave us nice soft scarves and a nativity set. Mine was crystal. ^^ (wonder where that ended up....) Tay dropped by later to give me a huge chocolate kiss. It was good to see her for a few minutes. Also spoke to Terrel. He got the Tennis Shoes book I sent him. ^^ He said that it was the best gift he got for Christmas. ^^ I'm glad I was able to brighten his day. I wonder if he'll actually get me anything in return...while it wuld be nice, I'm just glad he liked the book. And yah...I'm tired. It's been a long day.

Tuesday, December 25th 2012

-Merry Christmas! :) lol I must admit I didn't get much sleep as it seems lke Pepper woke me up every 2 hours until 5 am. I didn't mind so much as I wanted to be up early on Christmas Morning. :) AT six I went to wake the parents as Meralto didn't want to be scared by Daddoo like last year and Kikay didn't want to move. We spent an hour and a half opening presents. I got a plague ( plack? how do you spell that?), knife necklace, a butter melter that Merick made himself ( cup to melt butter in.) A "Prepper" lunch silverware set, an Ipod car thingy, 4 books, Pirates 4, a purse, a couple of flashlights, a warm pack stuffed animal, an ITunes gift Card, a barnes and noble gift card, money, some shirts, make up, gloves, socks and lots of candy. :) Everyone liked the gifts I gave them. :) Afterwards we all basically went back to bed until about 10 am. -I dozed off on the couch. WE went to see the Hobbit in the theatre. At 11 am getting popcorn, pretzels and drinks. I don't think I ever read the hobbit though some things seemed familiar. I though the movie was well done with a lot of attending to detail and I enjoyed the adventure of it. But its really long almost 3 hours which left me wishing for an intermission or something. Still I enjoyed watching it. It didn't instill in me the need to read the book or watch the next two movies when they hit theatres, or even to go see the movie again, but it was a good movie. A one time exposure was good enough for me. Aftrwards one dropped by Grandma's house for a couple of hours to exchange gifts -I gave grandma a candle holder. I gave grandpa some dark chocolate. In return we got a certificate for a manicure. Not really a girly girl, but I don't mind trying it once. Not sure how well that's going to work with work though....I got a belated present from my coworker Josie as she texted me about an hour before I had to head back home that she would be able to switch shifts. :) Woot! I don't know why she waited so long to text me, but I'm grateful that I can stay home another night with my family and be away from collegetown for another day. I plan to call Starsmet in the morning to let the manager know we switched shifts. (head manager ended up not being happy about it when I got back to work, apparently we should have cleared it with him first. didn't know that. It was my first time switching shifts.) Watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Read, called AT to talk to her and blogged as well as just hung out for the evening with family. :)

Wednesday, December 25th 2013

-Christmas was awesome! I actually slept in a little til 7:20 am which felt great because I've been getting up at 5am for the past few days. So it was good to get a little more sleep. We woke up the parents and opened presents.. I got a variety of things, Meralto gave me some nail stuff O.o and a captain America poster. ^^ Kikay got me Settlers of Catan and the letter "S" with pictures of myself on it. Daddoo gave me Arrow season 1 and a sketch book w/ some colored pencils and Mother dearest gave me the laptop. (she went halfsies on it w/ me.) :) I also got perfume, chocolate, candy, gift cards to ITunes and Amazon, magic cards, bouncy balls, a book -Charming. And the Lone Ranger as well as clothes and other things. :) Twas great! I got Daddoo a table catapult and sketch paper. Mother Dearest I got CSI season 13, socks and earrings, Kikay MLP monopoly. and a peacock statue and Meralto a Vocal Point CD and a galaxy machine. All appeared to like their gifts. :) Us kids spent the rest of the morning fiddling around with our new laptops until 11 when we went and saw the 11:30 showing of The Hobbit -Desolation of Smaug. It was a good movie with much amazing action. Good movie, but no real ending because there's a third one on the way. Afterwards we went to the Grandparents to exchange gifts. I got dish towels. :) And gave them chocolate. Came home and I spent a couple of hours reading before driving back to collegetown and reading some more...:S  as my laptop was having troubles connecting to the internet. :(

Thursday, December 25th 2014

-Merry Christmas! :D My morning started earlier then I had expected because I woke up about 5:20 to the smell of something burning. It smelt like burnt ramen noodles and my sleep fogged brain was half convinced something was on fire, so I came upstairs...no fire...and dozed in the living room with all the presents. :) Meralto showed up at 7:30 and surprisingly Mom was awake. O.O We gathered everyone soon after to open presents. I got a key knife, a pocket knife, lots of books, candy, makeup, towels, a vacuum, scriptures, aroma oils and other things. :) Mother dearest gave me the Vacuum. Dad the two knives and oils, Kikay gave me 2 books (I ended up getting her one of the same books lol.) and candy. Meralto an arrow poster, and a homemade mug. :) I gave kikay the book and a gold bracelet with a peacock and a zebra statue. Daddoo I'd given the Tortoise we found wandering around the store a month ago, Mother dearest a laundry basket w/ a heat blanket, candy and a book plus an abominable snowman. All in all a good Christmas!! I have to say the oddest present was that all 3 of us kids were given a taser. O.o Mother dearest stated that since we were all working shifts that involved darkness it would be good to have one just in case. ...I hope I never have to use it. After parents we went to Grandma's house to do presents there. Grandma gave me a table runner. :) Homemade. :) I gave her a shirt with Paris stuff on it and some tiny people figurines. WE went and saw the Hobbit 3 afterwards and it was an intense movie. :S My favorite character died though. It snowed!! Woke up to a white Christmas (like the only time it snowed last year.) And it snowed most of the day! :D it was great!

Friday, December 25th 2015

-Well...I didn't sleep that well last night. It felt like I was coming down with the flu or something. I had a super sore throat. I was achy. Sore. Tired. Went to sleep and woke up only a couple hours later with a major headache. The kind that feels like spikes being pounded into your skull. I couldn't sleep, felt awful. So I took some Advil, it didn't help, My sister who was also awake gave me a brief shoulder massage before I went and took a shower, and more Advil, and managed to doze fitfully the rest of the night. Waking up every couple of hours or so. Usually on Christmas day the kids are the ones to wake up the parents. Today, it was Mom who woke us up. At least Kikay and I. Meralto showed up and Mom heard him come in, but we didn't go wake them up. I was just trying to get the last of my headache gone. I knew there were presents out in the living room. But I was so tired, and exhausted from my night I was fine staying in my bed. But, after some caffeine and some Excedrin, I felt much better. Able to open presents with the family while feeling for the most part fine. Thankfully the sore throat had disappeared. The headache/tension stayed in the background for most of the day. Christmas and Presents was amazing. ^^ I loved spending time with my family and everyone liked their gifts. ^^ This year was different from other years because us kids didn't have just one wrapping paper for each kid -so we knew which one was ours- This year it was decided just to use all the different left over wrapping paper we had accumulated over the years. And I have to say it was a ton of fun. You had to look for your name on the present instead of a certain color of paper. Definitely something different and something I enjoyed. :) After we opened presents we hung out for a bit relaxing -me I was reading a Sherlock behind the scenes book.- before we headed over to Grandma's house to exchange gifts. We got her a Kindle Fire and various parts/extra for that -memory card, case, amazon card to buy books. And grandma gave us kids all "Bowl Warmers." Handmade. ^^ What are they? Yah, I didn't know at first either. But it's a cloth, looks a bit like those oven pads you use to keep food from burning the table. But it has a dip in it, making it look a bit like a bowl itself. And what you do is you stick your cup or bowl in the dip of the cloth. Put it in the microwave, and then when its done you can pick up the cloth with the cup/bowl inside and you won't burn your hands on the hot dish! Soo cool!! ^^ I've never head of them before but oh so useful! We came back home and I relaxed, reading some more, taking a short nap, enjoying my new presents -clothes, books, movies, pictures, jewelry, etc etc. So. Very much fun. ^^ It was just a nice relaxful day, which had to end much sooner than I wanted as Kikay and I had to return back to CollegeTown this evening so I could get to work tomorrow morning. Got back to my apt and have just been hanging out watching Mirror Mirror and Inside Out -movies I got today.

I hope you guys had a Merry Christmas!!

Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi