thanksgiving review; monday

[amezri]

Gah. Catch up time...

Thursday

Woke up at stupid o'clock. Headed to Plainsboro, NJ for turkey day. Mom drove. We got there about 11am. There was a salsa pants incident. Meh. Putzed around the house while mom and seijitataki helped I-Ming with food stuff. She apparently hadn't really counted and her list of 20 guests ballooned to 36. Yeah. At some point I was bored and went to take a nap. I think food was up about 5-ish? There was a lot of the traditional turkey dinner items as well as some non-traditional Chinese dishes. I went for the normal turkey/potatoes/stuffing of course, with a piece of pumpkin pie at the end. Yum.

seijitataki and I ended up playing NDS games against each other while some of the adults sang church songs in the other room and an older man showed three girls Roman Holiday as they'd never seen or heard of it before. Geez. There was this 6 year old who was running around the house being really annoying an grabby handed with our DSes, which I refused to let him have. I think he'd eaten half a plate of brownies by then.

The guests all left. There was cleaning, none of which I did. Then bed.


Friday

Mom's friends took us to the Princeton campus for a stroll around. seijitataki and I found ourselves explaining the origins of Catholicism and the fact that Catholicism is a denomination of Christianity to a man who wants to go to China to be a missionary. I mean, honestly, if you're going to go around shoving your beliefs in other people's faces, at least have the decency to know what the hell it is you're talking about. I did take a lot of photos on campus, which I'll post at some point.

Afterwards, we went to a Chinese grocery to do some shopping and then went to a Chinese buffet that was actually pretty good. Seriously. The food all tasted different and for the most part, it wasn't gross from sitting under warming lamps.

Went back to the house and just chatted for a while before going to bed.


Saturday

Once again, got up at stupid o'clock to head to Forest Hills/Flushing. There was no traffic so we got to our destination much earlier than expected, but that gave us time to get our stuff out of the car and relax a bit before heading out to dim sum. I wasn't really hungry so didn't eat much; this becomes a problem later. Mei took us to go visit my father's mother in the nursing home she's in right now. I didn't want to go at all, but whatever. Thankfully, my father wasn't there, but his older sister and youngest brother were. We just sort of "forgot" to even call my father until after we left. Oops :-P

Went back to Mei's house to drop stuff off and switch bags and things then headed out to Manhattan :D Didn't really have a plan, so just wandered. Went to the Kinokuniya where I bought a copy of Aranzi Anzo Cute Dolls and a Japanese amigurumi book, which sort of does me no good at the moment, but it may in the future. We also stopped in the Nintendo World Store, inside which I found absolutely nothing I wanted. Meh. Next stop was the MoMA Design store which was full of really awesome, original things... none of which I got. Picked up another string voodoo doll (Charlie Ribs) and another Acrobot for my office.

We did head for FAO Schwartz, but there was an insane line to get in, and I was way too hungry and jittery to deal with that, so I gave a good whinge and asked for food. We headed for the subway and had dinner at Donovan's Pub in Woodside, which was really nice. Service was great and my Shepherd's pie was so tasty, I ate the whole thing!

Heading back to Mei's was a bit of a challenge as we may have accidentally gotten on an express train and gotten a bit turned around. Oopsie. No big deal... got it all worked out and almost an hour later, we were back on track XD Chatted a bit more once we were back and then went to bed.


Sunday

Didn't crawl out of bed until about 8am. Yays. Had breakfast, chatted, packed the car and head home. There was surprisingly little traffic, but then again, it was way early in the morning and people were probably still passed out. Got to Albany about noon, I think, and we decided to have lunch at Round Robin. The chili burger was pretty tasty and not that spicy, which is perfect for me!

When we got home, I unpacked all my stuff and plopped down in front of the TV to catch up on all the stuff I'd DVRed in the last couple weeks, so that was something like 3 episode of Torchwood, 2 episode of Pushing Daisies, and 2 episodes of Bones. Still have Friday's Moonlight to get to.


Monday

Today. Yesterday. Whatever. I had to get up way early again because my Jeep was at the mechanic's. Mom dropped me off at work, which was pretty lame, but the day passed quickly at least. Got news that my car was ready to be picked up -- it just needed a new battery after all. Yays. Mom picked me up about 4:30pm, got the car and all on the drive home I'm trying to figure out how to set the damn clock on the stereo. It was easy, of course, but I totally forgot how it was done. So I was doing that in the garage and had my cellphone in my lap to see what time it was. When i got it all set, I forgot about the phone and got out of my car... >_< the phone dropped on to the concrete garage floor. Glargh. Still works, but I've broken my new snap-on case -- which I love and can't replace because I got it in Taiwan -- and also put a gouge in the hinge.

Lovely start to the week :-P

Oh well, at least tomorrow I get to hang with queenmaab.

Comments

[xpashax.livejournal.com]

It's interestingly common for people in certain Protestant denominations to be taught that Catholicism is a pagan religion separate from Christianity.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Really? How very strange o_O

[xpashax.livejournal.com]

There's some logic behind it, I won't bore you with the details, but if you pay attention when they talk you'll often hear them use "Christian" and "Catholic" the way most people use "Protestant" and "Catholic".

[amezri.livejournal.com]

No, I do notice the language difference. Actually, in talking with relatives in Taiwan who are Christian, the whole of Christianity is split very cleanly into "Christians" and "Catholics," but Catholics are not considered to be at all the same as Christians, as in, "it's that other religion over there and we don't like to talk about them."

I just find it really odd that it's taught that way when they are basically the same religion with some different rules and administration.

[alorarose.livejournal.com]

*makes grabby hands at the amigurumi book*

pictures???

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Pictures of Princeton or the book? XD

[alorarose.livejournal.com]

amiguruuumi!! fuck Princeton, lol.