My family and I traveled to my aunt's, who lives about an hour and a half away, yesterday for my mom's side of the family Christmas. Because she has such a large family and there's tons of cousins and aunts and uncles and whatnot, we don't just buy gifts for everyone. We all just buy a $5 gift and we put the gifts in a pile and play a game called Rob Your Neighbor. (I'm not really sure if that's the "official" name of the game, but it's just what we call it. :P)

It's pretty simple. Everyone draws a number and that's the order that you go in. So, number one goes and picks a gift out of the middle and unwraps it. Then, number two can either still the gift or can pick one out of the pile, and it just goes around like that. It's actually really funny because people get so competitive over these cheap $5 gifts. xD Nothing spreads holiday cheer like stealing presents does!

I ended up with a $5 gift card to Dairy Queen (mmmmmmm, so good!) which I was perfectly content with. I stole it from my grandpa, haha. I'm still his favortie. ;)

Then we all ate entirely too much good food and kind of sat around and talked for a couple hours. I always feel so awkward when it comes to that part because no one is for real my age. I'm 16, and the closest two people to me are 21 and 23. So while my older cousins talk about college and everything, I'm kind sitting there, twiddling my thumbs, thinking about how I can't wait to get out of high school. Or, wishing someone would ask how I'm doing in school. I really like to see my family and stuff, I just always feel so awkward as I don't have anyone to talk to. Does this happen to anyone else?

Schoolwise, I'm almost done with this semester! I have all my finals this week; three tomorrow, two on Tuesday, and two on Wednesday. Thankfully, Tuesday and Wednesday are half days, though I sometimes wish they would just shove Tuesday and Wednesday together so I could get on with my break! I'm really not too worried about any of them except for my physics final. This year my school implemented this new dumb grading system where finals are only worth 5% of your grade. Uh, what? Does anyoneone else agree how dumb that in itself sounds? Finals are supposed to show what you know but nope, not anymore.

On the upside, I can get a 0% on five out of seven of my classes and still pass with an A. On the downside though, in Physics, I have to get 110% on my final to get an A, so I'm pretty worried. Our teacher told us that there would be extra credit on there, but that means I have to completely ace it, which is pretty unrealistic since I really struggled with that class. :/ I was aiming for straight A's this semester, but I guess I can handle one B...

Anywho, I hear most of you are out on break! Woot! For those of you who are, I hope you're all enjoying it and for those who aren't, good luck on finals and whatnot!
12/19/2010 03:36:51 am

My problem with my hip is very rare so it's always difficult for doctors to know what to do with me. I have to travel quite a long way to the hospital because it is a specialised hospital, one of the best for orthopaedic surgery in the country.

Good luck with finding a job!

That's a really good idea for Christmas presents. Buying presents for all your friends and family can be very expensive.

I hate physics. I got a C in my GCSEs so I was glad to drop it. I guessed all the answers in the exam!

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12/19/2010 03:47:03 am

Hmmm,I can relate to the age thing when it comes to family gatherings. My stepfamily all has kids around my half sister Olivia's age and they all get along great. My dad has his ex wife her daughter and her son to talk too and I have like maybe 1 nephew close to my age, but that's about it. I get extremely bored really fast over there. I love the game rob the neighbor, we actually played it when I lived in Chino, but it was called something else which I forgot, it was something around the lines of something you don't want at home wrap it up, and we draw a number and whoever goes to pick up that present and the second can either steal it or pick another present. LOL my friend Nathan got a cd player and I stole it from him XD. But it's cool we still talk to this day even if he has a gf. Ya know? He's just that friggin cool! Hmm that grading system sounds like a bunch of horse turds! I really wish you could go on break now. If you'd like I can host you on my domain? Did you make this layout yourself? it's pretty cool.Just like grab yourself a copy of paint shop pro (whatever the number is now) and fiddle around with it and you'll eventually get the hang of it. As for html, we don't really use html anymore we use php now a days. Html is a thing in the past. I can help you with the coding if you want? No biggie on that bit. Just let me know okay? And of course you weren't at the bottom! I didn't really have it in order but now I do by names. Let me know if you want to get hosted by me okay? I'll be glad to help you out ;).

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12/19/2010 06:59:47 am

It sounds like Secret Santa but with a twist :L Goodluck with your finals but whoa your grade appear to be really good, straight A student! I'm sure one B won't hurt :P but yeah I know there are people who cry at a B maybe because you just need one B to make it a straight A? IDK I think I'm rambling :L

I dislike people who don't appreciate life, or things they take for granted. No offence to your sister, but I think once suffers she will change and be a better person? I sound so cliché :P

That's worth it imo because it was custom made too!

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12/20/2010 11:27:30 am

Hey Becca! I got a domain and I would just like to notify you to change your link to moxiferous.info, Thank you!

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12/21/2010 10:14:24 am

Hey Becca,
That is a great idea for gifts for everyone. Here we call that game White Elephant.
It is so weird the Christmas and Thanksgiving are so close together. So much good food for two straight months, including leftovers. And we haven't gotten to New Year's yet!
But it is great that you enjoyed the food.
My family is the people at church and I have felt that before. Because it is my mom's friends usually. But I don't know, they have started noticing me and asking me how I'm doing. But it is always great to get back around friends who want to hear about my day and I hear about theirs.

School sounds so stressful. They should find some way to alleviate that. It might be up to us. :)

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