Before X-mas re-cap

I guess I will be doing a before christmas post to catch up over the past few days and a after christmas post to catch up between today and throughout christmas. Holiday time for me sucks. I am expected to be in a minimum of 3 different places every year. Here's the break down, first of all I am adopted, with an open adoption. That means that my biological family has always been in my life and I grew up knowing them and visiting them as long as I can remember. My biological mom I call Meme and my mother who adopted me I call Mom. Second, my parents who adopted me are divorces and have been since I was 7. So every year I have to go see my biological family which is in Houston (3 hours away), then I have to split the rest up between my mom's side of the family and my dad's side of the family. Now let's add in my other family, my dad's-girlfriends-family. My dad and his GF have been dating for about 14 years now. So after going to Houston for my biological family, then coming back to austin for my mom's family, then usually to san antonio for my dad's family, and then out to spicewood (lake travis) for my dad's girlfriends family. Some years I can get away without going to my dad's girlfriends family. So then add in when I have boyfriends. This year David's parents are not in Japan with his sister, but are in dallas (another 3 hour drive). So this is my schedule over the next few days:

12/21/09: work 7:45pm-2am

12/22/09: Wake up at 7:30 and make pumpkin pie, get ready to go to Houston and leave by 10. Stay in Houston until about 8 or 9 pm, then drive back to Austin.

12/23/09: Work 3:45pm-2am

12/24/09: Drive to Dallas around 10 am, maybe a little later. Stay in Dallas all day, then leave around 9pm

12/25/09: Wake up around 8am and make 2 pumpkin pies, get ready then go to my mom's side of the family around 10 or 11, from there go to my dad's side (which will be in Austin this year, so good.) stay there until about 4, then most likely we will just go home, but we have the option of going to my dad's girlfriends family.

12/26/09: Work 3:45pm-2am

12/27/09: Work 7:45pm-2am

Then I finally get a couple of days off. anyone feel like trading lives for a week? I promise I'll be gentle with yours....

Sigh. Oh well. On the lighter side of things, I won first place cake at my company christmas party. That was exciting, since the girl who has a reputation for making cakes and is supposedly the best cake maker, she got 3rd place. oh yeah, go me.

By the way, Ferrero Rocher chocolates are the bomb-digity. I want 1,000,000,000 of them now please.

So every year Austin has the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar and it's pretty cool. I've been going since I was a littler than I am now girl and it's a lot of the same vendors every year. I go now for this one vendor in particular that I absolutely love. Its the Bungle Jungle couple. They make these cute little monster creatures. I now collect them. After this christmas I will have 5 total. They are a bit pricey, but way cool and one of a kind. Like the real one of a kind. No one else will ever have the exact same monster creatures that I do. The creators can't even make the same ones. They are just the funniest things though. They always make me laugh when I look at them. David recently got really creative and placed the two I had before this year in out old fish thank we don't use anymore (because we killed our fish, or we are the only owners who fish commit suicide by barring themselves in the rocks at the bottom of the tank...) They look really funny in there and kind of scary too because the are caged now. That means they might be dangerously funny, so we have to contain them. Well I got 3 more this year. Actually I got myself 2 little ones, and David got me one as my christmas gift (but I'm not supposed to know *wink *wink, even though I picked the little booger out.) I want to eventually make a big display with scenery and everything like they are living and functioning in their own world. One day....