Holidays Recap

The Christmas holidays were pretty fun. A tad hectic, but still fun. We seemed to have people over for dinner almost every night. I don't know where my parents get the energy to entertain that much.

My mom was in an exceptionally good mood and that always makes the holidays go a lot smoother. I got to see my Australian cousins again (who I had met for the first time 4.5 years ago), and they were just as friendly and awesome as I remember them. I wonder if it's because they're in my family, because they're Indian, or because they're Australian. Or maybe it's a mix of all three.

My parents loved the photo album my sister and I made for them (my mom even cried!), but unfortunately my sister couldn't keep any of the DVDs she got (since the DVD players in Europe require a different region encoding).

I didn't ask for much this year, but I got the 2 Wii games I wanted (Godfather: Blackhand Edition and Super Mario Galaxy), food from Belgium, a Simpsons calendar, a pajama set, and some other gifts I can't remember ;)

As my sister wrote in her blog, I think we're one of the few people left in our age group that still get excited about (or even celebrate) Christmas. Oh well.
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"Overall, 2007 kinda sucked." ~ my sister

The year had its highlights, but the negatives handily outweighed the positives.

I don't like my job (it pays less and isn't as exciting/challenging as my previous job). I don't like my apartment (it's smaller and more unsafe - I got robbed in October - than my previous place). My uncle passed away in September. It's always hard when a family member passes away, but this one was especially hard since he had been fighting cancer for so long.

Oh, and the way we celebrated the end of 2007 was pretty fitting for how crappy the year was. We went to a friend's apartment to watch the ball drop since he has a really nice TV. Well, we found out when we got there that his cable went out and he didn't even have network TV! We tried in vain to find live streams from Times Square on the Web, but ended up looking at our watches at midnight to know that 2008 had arrived.

And how did we start 2008? By playing drinking games to old episodes of The Office.

Hopefully, the year gets better...