This one will be about gifts. It is the season for giving, is it not?
Thinking back to all the Christmas gifts I've been given over the years...
Best gift ever: NBA Live '99 --computer game
From: My grandma, Madeline Crosley. Her last Christmas before passing in February the following year. It was the first basketball video game I actually owned personally. Loved that game--I'll never forget it because of who it came from.
Worst gift ever: Tube socks
From: I have no earthly idea. Some distant relative, I imagine--I was a little kid. What little kid ever wants tube socks? Why do people do this? Ironically, as I near 25, I could actually use a new pair of socks or 2--just not ones like that.
2009 Wish List:
1. Anything Cubs--Ahem, tickets? Just kidding (no I'm not).
...there is a black Cubs shirt at Champs Sports that I would love. They used to have a neat white one, too, at one point. I own 4 blues and 1 grey, but no other colors.
...there are at least 6 new Cubs hats at Lids in Towne East in Wichita that I don't have. Not to mention tons of neatly-colored hats, shirts and other Cubs nonsense online. Just saying.
2. Nintendo Wii. Very unrealistic (money constraints for pretty much everyone I know) and not the best usage of my time, but I'd love one, nonetheless.
3. A foxy new girlfriend. Or at least a New Year's date? Suggestions? Bah.
*Derrick pauses for 2:22 and breaks into a Joe Nichols song* --
"What's a guy gotta do to get a girl in this town?...don't wanna be alone when the sun goes down...just a sweet little somethin' to put my arms around...what's a guy gotta do to get a girl in this town? ...well, ask anybody, I'm a pretty good guy..."
Yikes. Sorry you had to witness that--I'm back now...where was I? Oh yes...
On to a couple random Christmas memories:
1995: Move into new house (out of trailer). With TV on the floor and most belongings still in boxes, we watch the beloved Kansas Jayhawks defeat UCLA 51-30 in Aloha Bowl...Then, with no food worth eating and exhausted from moving--we eat "Christmas dinner" at a gas station in Kingman, KS. Just my mom and us three boys. An oddly cohesive occasion.
2002: House fire, 2 AM--Christmas Eve. Forced to move into a duplex in town for the last 5 months of my Senior year of High School. Weird stuff, watching your house almost burn down mere hours before Christmas.
SO...here's what I want: If you are reading this, take a second to tell me at least one--or more of the following:
1. What's on your Christmas wish list this year?
2. Best gift you've ever gotten?
3. Worst gift you've ever gotten?
4. Good Christmas memory?
5. Bad Christmas memory?
6. Favorite thing about the holiday season?
7. Least favorite thing about the holidays?
You mustn't answer them all...Just share some Christmas-y thoughts. Ready, go.
I'll try and make sure to write again before then, but I'm in holiday mode already.
Early or not...Merry Christmas, y'all.
Do the right thing,
Derrick
My favorite memory is playing cards at my grandparents house. We had up to 11 people playing at once, with Christmas music playing in the background. Which is probably where I get my love of Christmas music. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty cool, Katie! I dunno where I get my affinity for Christmas music, actually. I don't recall liking it as a little kid. But now? I love it. I don't understand people who don't--I think it's wonderful. :) thanks for sharing, yo!
ReplyDeleteCurrent Christmas Wish List:
ReplyDelete-Lose the 15lbs I've gained since getting married (miracle pill will do, as long as I can still eat my Ben & Jerry's)
-End world hunger & make sure every child has a present or stocking to open on Christmas morning. Lately I've really been thinking about want vs need and I don't want anything this season. I asked Jake if we could buy things for the needy this year instead of stupid knick knack gifts that our family members don't even need. We had already been thrown into a "Christmas Drawing" for Jake's family, though, so we were committed to buying presents for them. They said "next year" we'll all pool together money and adopt a family for Christmas. You bet your britches I'll be enforcing that heavily. So, as for this year, we've committed to donating money to the Salvation Army each time we go into Wal-Mart, and we keep a few dollars in our cars to give to people that stand on corners by the highway asking for money. Figure every little bit helps.
As for my favorite part of the holidays... the music, the decorations, and the weather (assuming it actually snows!).
You know how this is dork :)
ReplyDeleteBut my fave Christmas memorry, would have to be from this one. I got a precious necklace from my dear boyfriend and I cherrish it. Love it to death. First Christmas to share with someone. Your foxy girlfriend will come when God plans.Oh, on the way back to his house, we followed a drunk into town, who after almost killing us, got his car stuck on a snow bank. What an ass!
I know this is after the Christmas season, but I just am reading this. So I figured I'd go ahead and answer some of these questions anyways. . .
ReplyDelete1. Apples to Apples
2. A diamond ring. . .
3. A hairbrush.
6. I love all the decorations and lights.
7. I hate that there are people EVERYWHERE when trying to shop.
5 out of 7 questions isn't bad, right? Keep up the writing. I like it! :)