This year we did Christmas Eve with my parents, and then Christmas dinner with Drew’s family. On Christmas Eve we went to my family’s church for the candlelight service, and I met their new pastor. She seems cool and new. I think she’ll be really good for their congregation. Being at church made me really want to go to church regularly again. So I think I’ll add that to my New Year’s resolutions.
Christmas night, after dinner and everything, we went to see 127 Hours. Every year Drew and I have gone to the movies on Christmas day, and I’m really glad we were able to keep that tradition alive.
2005 – The Producers (we didn’t yet know the tradition would be “movies that come out on Christmas day)
2006 – Dreamgirls
2007 – Sweeney Todd
2008 – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2009 – Sherlock Holmes
2010 – 127 Hours (nothing came out on Christmas this year!)
127 Hours is not the most Christmassy of movies. But it was good. I see how it’s a good movie. There was a part where I felt sort of sick, and I covered my eyes for a minute, but then I thought, This is practically the point of the movie, I don’t want to miss this. Then a little later I cried a little bit. Because it was either that or throw up. It was good though. I kept thinking about it the rest of the night.
This afternoon while driving to Fort Funston to walk with Erin, Drew said something about today being Monday. Then I got to tell him today is only Sunday. He was so happy!
That cat so does not care about me.
We are one week into Christmas Break and this is what I’ve accomplished of my Christmas Break Resolutions.
-Hit the gym 6 times. I’m up to 4 so far.
-Do some deep cleaning of the apartment. We even fixed our toilet by ourselves! The tank’s had a slow leak forever, and we’ve just been cleaning up after it. But then we finally teamed up and fixed it. What a rush, right?
-Organize my iTunes and sync up my iPod. Done! I got lots of new stuff. Including podcasts.
-Manage to make a dinner that makes Drew go, “Mmm! This is DELICIOUS!!” Does reheating the leftovers from his mom’s Christmas dinner count? I did make my own mashed potatoes.
The Cameraphone Diaries 