Holidays Past

Okay, so now Christmas and my birthday have come and gone. I got a Nintendo DS for my birthday and several games. I also got an accessory pack including an additional stylus, an extra game case and a screen cleaner pad, and a car adapter for charging when on the go. Gee, don't I sound like a salesman? Anyway, got a pretty nice brown denim coat for my birthday; it's got a fleece lining and an inside pocket. It's also got a hood; I think it's detachable, but can't remember. But I also got an MP3 player made by Philips. It's pretty cool; already got a couple of CDs loaded onto it through Windows Media Player on the computer. Right now I'm also wearing a very warm dark-red fleece shirt with a high collar. It's nice and warm; I wore it and my new coat when I went out with my grandmother today for lunch.

All in all, not a bad haul this year (and last, if you don't count my Jan. 12 birthday and Christmas as part of the holidays; I do).

And guess what? My mother had to call my father to get him to call me on my birthday. Stupid prick. Somehow, I'm not surprised that he said he'd call me and then hung up on my mother. Our conversation lasted all of about thirty seconds and consisted primarily of a happy birthday and 'sorry I didn't get you anything for your birthday'. Yeah. Well, he did - technically - but I don't consider an unopened bottle of cologne that he got from someone else and sent to me because he knew he wouldn't like it an adequate birthday gift. So, I didn't bother to call and thank the bastard for it. Actually, though, I'm not even sure if that was for Christmas or my birthday; all I know is I've got about a year's supply of cologne and aftershave because people keep buying it for me for the holidays and here I've got another one that wasn't even supposed to be for me in the first place. Jackass.