Dancing through life...

If you were my twenty year old brother, what would you want for Christmas? He wants a new HDTV, but my parents are buying him that, since I obviously can't afford that anyway.

He keeps stealing my DVD's, so I'm thinking maybe a couple of movies, but I don't know what. Maybe Cars? He's an automotive technician, so that'd be cute. I don't know what his girlfriend is getting him either. I should talk to her the next time she visits.

He's the only one I haven't shopped for yet, and he won't give me any hints as to what I should get for him! At least *I* have a list at thethingsiwant.com, to make my family's lives easier, (also, it's fun!), but he's always been the difficult one.

So. Any suggestions?

MY totally awesome little brother is bringing his girlfriend to faire tomorrow! I am SO EXCITED! He's a party pooper though, and doesn't want to rent garb.

He's a good boy. He paid me in advance for a rose, AND he tipped me! So I am going to pick out the absolute prettiest rose we have that day and deliver it to her the second I find them.

So if you see a rather tall handsome young man with blue eyes and very light brown hair walking around with a very pretty short-ish girl with beautiful long dark hair and the prettiest rose EVAR, that is MY totally awesome little brother and his totally awesome girlfriend!

Dude. MY little brother. Makes the bestestestestestest.... Chocolate martinis. EVAR!


Also.


He could totally. Kick YOUR little brother's. Ass.

It's been a crazy couple of days, let me tell you...
Got up early on Wenesday to say goodbye to Steven, who left for Australia. Managed to get my stuff together for D&D without forgetting anything except the chess pieces, and went to Numina's house with Rich to play D&D. Had a talk with the player ranted about here. I told him that any other DM would've kicked him out for pulling that crap, and that it was just silly, and that he shouldn't do it again, and he behaved himself. The game was great, we took a break for Chinese food (yum!), then played some more. Eventually we stopped, and we ended up going to Dunkin' Donuts. I went in Mike's car, and he let me ride with my head out the window. :)
We were there until something like one thirty, two in the morning, getting nasty looks from the workers. Then we left, went back to Numina's, talked in the driveway a bit, and then Rich and I went back to my house. He crashed here instead of driving back to NP. We watched TV/hung out for a bit, and I finally went to bed at five AM.
Woke up, for some ungodly reason that I still cannot fathom, at noon. I didn't have to work until six, and wasn't planning to get up until three thirty. Couldn't get back to sleep, so I went downstairs. Rich and I had S'mores Poptarts for breakfast, and watched more TV. I finally kicked him out at three, took a shower, ate dinner, and went to work.
Work was a little crazy. We kept running out of silverware. I almost got in trouble for seating tables without it, but they realized it wasn't my fault, so it was all good. Rich and Andrew kept stopping by, and they kept me thoroughly entertained.
I got off a little after 11, and went to Fridays with the guys for a soda. Then we wandered around for a bit, and ended up playing shopping cart demolition derby in the parking lot. It was the most fun I've had in AGES! Got home around two, passed out, and didn't wake up till noon today. I don't have work till noon tomorrow, and it's all good.

And now, for my amusement of the day:
Isn't this GREAT?

Steven got in a car accident yesterday. He's fine, but the car's not. At this point, it looks like they'll be able to fix it. He may lose his license, though, because he's still on that six month "new driver" probation.

That was Mom's car, the Saturn. We also have a Mercury, the "kids' car." Mom still owns it, but Steven and I drive it mostly. That's in the shop today as well, under investigation for strange noises. Since I refuse to drive Dad's 13 passenger van, it looks like I'm stuck here for the time being. Oh well, I've been looking for the impetus to continue unpacking...

He bought a new CD player for "our" car. (It's actually Mom's car, but we're pretty much the only ones who use it.) The old one was really crappy, so yay! Except he payed THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS for it. And it's not even what I would consider that fancy. Dude's crazy. I get to use it without having to pay though, so it's ok.

Went to Hoyer's for my birthday last night. It was ever so yummy.

Mom took me clothes shopping yesterday. Got two cute little summer hippie-ish blouse things for $6.21. Yay clearance rack! Mom also bought me a new spring outfit. It's a lavender suit dress. It's very cute, and (we discovered) stain resistant!

I finish re-reading LOTR this week, including the appendices. There is some very interesting information there. For instance, Bilbo Baggins is older than Gilraen, King Aragorn's mother. Doesn't that sort of break your brain?

PS, if no one calls me on my birthday, I'm going to be upset, (hint hint).

Time for ice cream cake!