running the gauntlet
Motherpussbucket but do I have a bad cold! It was pure misery to drive for
ten hours with my head and neck in agony and then to drive ten hours with my
head stuffed with cotton. And now it feels like I've swallowed sand, so I'm
constantly choking on my own throat.
Mmmm, phlegm . . .
My first hockey game in three weeks tonight. Missed it two weeks ago because
I was that the Neilsen party, and then I missed it last week because I'm an
idiot. So this should be fun. Now my skates are sharpened.
My brothers and I have spent much of today in the living room, which is
impassable due to presents. I mean honestly. I guess my family has rebelled
against our Scottishness and we usually go for quantity. Like you can't get
into the other rooms kind of quantity. And every year it gets worse. This
year is the worst yet, I think, because many of the presents are rather large,
and so their boxes take up a good four to six cubic feet each. It makes for
an interesting obstacle course. You can speculate on what's inside each one
as you run the gauntlet from the kitchen to the dining room.
Luckily, all my presents have been pretty small -- at least the ones I know
about and have already received. Cait got me hockey tickets. Andrew got me
hockey tickets. Andy got me -- you guessed it -- hockey tickets. I have six
games to attend between now and April -- and I'm sure that I will go to some
more as time progresses. Lisa's dad has suggested that I join him at a few
games, which I think will be a hoot, because we argue all the time. It will
be a short Indian man and a tall white girl in a jersey getting drunk and
yelling. Good times. I'm really looking forward to it. Not to mention that
I sometimes get some discounts on certain games, owing to the fact that I've
been a registered Sens fan for several years now.
What else . . .?
Not much, actually. As soon as Christmas is over (i.e. Boxing Day), I'm back
on the homework kick, getting a hella lot of readings done, buying textbooks,
and organizing my Ethics Proposal. So I can't complain that I have nothing to
do. 'Cept there's no way in hell I'm starting it before Christmas, so I've
been wandering around today, kind of at a loss, because for the first time in
a long time, I had nothing to do. So I went out. It was funnnnn.
Hockey now.
Posted by Ally at December 23, 2005 06:19 PM