December 27, 2015

This morning I got up at 9:30AM, took a shower, and then put my grandma's cross stitch in a hoop. Then I packed up my car and headed to my Dad's house. I sat and talked with my Dad and aunt for awhile and then we ate lunch. After lunch there was a lot more sitting around and talking before we opened gifts.

My dad and brother both liked the books I got them and my grandma liked the cross stitch I made her. I got a pair of fabric scissors and my dad had my brother wrap it and then surround it in zip ties. That wasn't as bad as the gift completely encased in duct tape, and they gave me a pair of wire cutters to free the scissors. In the last day or two I managed to misplace my old, kind of crappy scissors, so getting the fabric scissors was good timing.

When I got home I worked on emptying the food box I got. I brought a few things down to my room but managed to get most of the stuff in the kitchen. An hour or so later I went to go have dinner with my friend, his parents, and our other friend's mom. The original plan was to meet at our other friend's mom's house but when I was almost there my friend texted me and said to meet at a certain restaurant. I had heard of it before but I don't eat out much so I had no idea where it was. I ended up going to our friend's mom's house, parking in the driveway, and looked up the restaurant on my phone. And I found the place on my first try. Success. It was a beer and meat kind of place, neither of which I partake in, but I ended up getting another grilled romaine salad. This one didn't have the obvious meat-flavored char on it like the one from yesterday, but it was still pretty good thanks to the dressing. We ended up sitting and talking after the meal until about nine o'clock.

On my way home I stopped and got gas because I was getting low and the weather is supposed to get a little less than pleasant tonight. I have no plans on leaving the house until Wednesday but you never know.

I spent the rest of the night playing Tera. I logged in the last couple of days but that was only long enough to get log-in rewards and to check the trade broker. So it was nice to actually play it today. I got into a couple matches of Corsairs and managed to win one of them. That was most likely due to having a good leader and the team actually listening to the leader. The other team also probably sucked, but we can ignore that part. Out in the wild I found a few big Santas and a couple small Santas. One of the big ones dropped three or four presents which was awesome but out of all the presents I didn't really get anything worthwhile, which sucked. I had fun though, and that's what matters.

It is coming up on two o'clock in the morning so I'm going to go to bed now. Sometime, maybe tomorrow, I'm going to start exploring my sewing machine. I would also like to get some more reading done. I should be able to finish at least a couple books this week, so fingers crossed for that.