A Very Germy Christmas Wednesday, December 24, 2003 [ banter 3 ]

Had Christmas Eve dinner tonight upstate with some really wonderful ppl, Kai and the absolutely beautiful Mishi from work were both there too. We had fondu and wine (it was AWESOME). I liked it! Most everyone @ the shindig was German, and dammit, what a great night I had. Just me and the Germs. I left around 11pm and caught the last train to Manhattan, which got me in just at midnight, and it was just so gorgeous outside and I was in such a great Christmas-y mood, so I made my was across the sparkly slums of Harlem @ 125th street and caught the A train home.

Spriteboy Speaks

Btw, all of today's Damn Anthems are holiday favorites of mine that are currently in heavy rotation on my iPod. I suggest you all sample that shit.

In keeping tradition with how we did things up in my mom's house, I'm sleeping in the living room tonight near the tree. Well, that's sort of a tradition... see, we quit doing the Christmas tree thing after I was about 6. Inner city Houston wasn't the friendliest area of town, and having a big bright christmas tree just a-blazing in the front window basically served as an open invite to all the hugs and theives in our hood. "Hey we got gifts in here! COME ROB US!" After a few Christmases of waking to find we'd been robbed, we just quit with the whole tree nonsense and found other alternatives. My dad would just duct tape the christmas lights around the living room coffee table, my mom would pile all the gifts and stockings on top of it, and we'd just sleep in a big pile around it. A little left of normal, I know, but dammit I loved it just the same.

It's Christmas Eve, winners. Tomorrow morning I'm opening my presents, making myself breakfast, and going to see Peter Pan. Low-key for shizzy, but it's how I like to do things. It's gonna be a great day. And the fact that the N is going to begin rerunning the entire My So-Called Life series soon in 2004? is enough to bring my fool ass to tears of elation, man. I hope everyone out there gets to do something fun and feel-good, and I hope ya'll are with ppl who love ya too. Merry Christmas, peeps.

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