The Better Part of My Christmas

I meant to write about this ages ago. Somehow I always missed my chance, ran out of time or found something else to do. I always have trouble writing these things, especially in the beginning, but I figured I should just do it for once and see where it goes. Writing tends to get easier after a while.

I stayed home for most of the Christmas vacation, as usual. However, this time there was one thing I really looked forward to: Ruu was coming to visit. To make things even better, my family went to see my grandmother, leaving the whole house for us. Can you guess what that means?

Living room invasion, of course. 8D

We had space. Amazing. We didn't need to stay in my room if we wanted to talk freely, we could stay awake, eat and sleep whenever we wanted to. With some help from my dad, we even managed to connect my laptop to our TV. *___*

Which brings me to the thing that ruled most of my vacation and is taking over my life even now...

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion.
(Choosing just one picture to represent the whole show is impossible. Now excuse me while I take the easy way out and slap the one that looks the most official at you.)

The one day (night, actually) we didn't spend watching Code Geass was when Kazume-chan came over. We somehow managed to pack most of the random ideas, both good and bad, into that short time. Not to sound like we didn't do anything interesting at all otherwise, but... I have to say we did a pretty good job compressing all the stupid. In a good way, naturally.

Why yes, we took over the kitchen as well.

I'm pretty sure this is the reason for this piece of random. In any case, now we had an eggplant to cook. We didn't have any idea what to do with it (did you know they're technically berries?) until Kazume-chan said they're usually fried in slices. Oh. The more you know...

We then did as we were told. Also featured: slices of toast, fried eggs and leftover ham from Christmas.

I can't remember the time, so I'll just say it was "pretty late by then". I'm not much of a cook, so I let Ruu and Kazume-chan do the cooking. They made a fine mess of the place, too. Not that I minded, we cleaned up all right in the end. Right before watching a movie, going through a sleep attack and snoozing for hours. (Ruu woke up around one o'clock the next day.)

Now that I think about it, though... that must have been the only night that was almost normal. Not counting the first, because my parents were still home and we hadn't quite settled yet, we just exchanged presents, set the laptops up and talked for a while before going to sleep like we were supposed to. The other nights we barely slept at all. Random naps here and there, mostly during the day, in between episodes and snacks.

From the day she had to leave. Before going to sleep, mind you.

We were pretty worn out by then. We watched a few more episodes of Code Geass, I went to walk the dog and cleaned up while she slept for a bit. We couldn't quite finish the series, but we did get pretty close. We tidied up a bit and went to the city to get her to her bus. I felt like I could collapse any moment, but that didn't stop the melancholy from getting to me. It's the same every time we part.

It wasn't all over yet, though. I went home, opened the computer and tried to stay awake long enough to feed the dog. Attempted to catch up with dA and talked to ttuw (where am I supposed to link you? .__.) for a bit on MSN. Died on her a few times too, I lacked sleep pretty seriously by then... I did manage to crawl back in the end, though. Slept for 16 hours straight after that. The rest of the family had returned already.

I pretty much spent all of the next day on the computer and hey... a 25-hour MSN conversation. o__o; That has to be some kind of record.

Somewhere in the middle of it all ttuw managed to introduce me to a new MMORPG.

We spent quite a lot of time playing that, too. It worked well enough most of the time, not counting the times my laptop refused to co-operate. I was getting tired again (apparently 16 hours of sleep doesn't make up for a whole week), so I was pretty out of it. I did manage to stay up the whole time. However... I KO'd a short while after. I can't even call that falling asleep anymore, I just lost conciousness, utterly and completely. A rather interesting experience, though awfully rude. orz'' I have a feeling I'll never forget this one.

Then the year 2009 was over for good. All in all: this was the best Christmas vacation I remember having, ever. Thank you, everyone.