post-Christmas update

Christmas with the fam was amazing! I love how hilarious my family is, from my little nephews to their grandpas. My Uncle Nick was handing out fresh $20 bills to the kids and my Mom got in line, haha.

I got some pretty sweet gifts. I really didn't want anything this Christmas, I just wanted to be home with the fam and stuff my face with yummy foodstuffs. My wish came true! Mom gave me an old fountain pen that's way fancier than the ones I own, I got some MAC lipstick from sis-in-law which luckily I didn't have, and I got the blanket that I brought for white elephant back. Yay! Haha. It's super warm, it feel like I'm wrapped in some sort of fur.

I also bought myself something else since I got money back from study abroad. The huge purchase was a ticket to see Jimmy Eat World for their 10th anniversary of their album "Clarity" which made a huge impact on my life. That album is one of the reasons that I'm in film. It changed the way I felt about music, about film, about a lot of things. The only thing that stands in the way of me getting "lead my skeptic sight" tattooed somewhere on my body is my pain threshold. Listen to "Table for Glasses" and try not to cry.

My cousins are here from northern California, and we hung out yesterday. The mall was insane-o. We walked to Coffee Bean to talk and sip drinks. Saw some boys on road bikes, and that made me happy. Had pastrami sandwiches at The Hat--yummo. Kat came and we went to the mall to witness the madness. I got a really cool shirt that says "Rogue" on it but in the font of Vogue magazine's title cover. And a nerdy sweater. Both were on sale.

Today, my neighbor is getting married. We used to be really close when we were little. We're still friends, but it's not the same as before. You know how that is? It's weird because for 6 months of the year, we're the same age. I used to play MASH with her; we'd let paper and pencil design our fate. And now she's getting married. For real.

I'm going to the wedding with my parents. Writing that out makes me feel like a little kid. I expressed all this to my parents, and at first they started making fun how all my little cousins way younger than me have boyfriends. Then they said that I should travel a little more, wait a little bit before I start dating. Mom said I should get rich first, haha. You know, get my first Oscar, then I can date whoever I want!

In all honesty though, I do like where I am, and though I'd like to find someone who I feel strongly about enough to want to spend the rest of my life with him...there's so much I want to do, and I don't see that happening now. I don't even see myself with a boyfriend right now. Dad said to me while I lied face down in their bed, "GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER....then have fun."

That sounds like a decent plan.