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Posting from downstairs at home... cannot be bothered to go upstairs and get laptop. Spent the day shoping with family. Many people looking at us funny... Had to apologize to one man... "sorry, surrounded by lunatics." He laughed.

Update: next morning. Got drafted for my google fu skills. More shoping today. Family staying due to snow. More later.

Family in Town

This is a belated anouncment that I've been too tired and too busy to post.  I have finished my papers, and my finals, ad am free for the break.  Yay!

Thursday night I went out to a blues bar up in Boulder.  I must confess, my first thought when katerina_black invited me was of Joe's blues bar.  Am such a geek.  Also, we got to have Strongbow, which was kinda awesome.

Family came into town from smalltown Kansas on Friday night.  After going out for dinner, we hung about the house playing Guitar Hero.  Since only about half of the group had ever played before, there was a great deal of flailing until people got the hang of it, which in our family usually leads to us harassing one another, and lots of laughter.

The next day saw us shoping from about 9 to 10.  That's 9AM to 10 PM.  I didn't meet up with them until 11 o'clock.  We dropped the kids off at Aunt Becky's house and then hit several places including Costco, where I kept having to coral my cousin from wandering off to see the shiny things.  This is my cousin who's older than me by... at least a decade.  The cousin who has a daughter only a decade younger than me.  I also was helping hunt down all the christmas gifts they were shoping for.  It was after leaving Costco that I uttered the line, "Terribly sorry, surrounded by lunatics."

Sam's Club Included a scene at the register where my family gave each other a hard time and made the cashiers day.  She told us if we waited half an hour, she'd go out for margaritas with us.  We hit Pier 1 after, and found a checkbook case that mght have worked for a prop for Sailor Mercury's cosplay, so I called her and left haer a message.  About halfway through, my cousin started calling my name, so I have to wonder what she though when she got the message.  After dinner, we hit the mall, but due to an inability to get our check at the restraunt, we had all of 15 minutes to get what we needed and get out before close.  Then we hit the liquor store, where we managed to find bottled Strongbow.  Which was also kind of awesome.  Then home for mulled wine and shoping by google and amazon.

The roads were bad enough this morning to give my Aunt and cousins pause about leaving for Kansas today, so there was more shoping, including hitting Sam's again and running into the cashier from the night before.  It was so cold today, and we were already a bit worn from yesterday, so the day ended with dinner at my house, and figurign out what everybody owed everyone else at the dinner table.  It seems as if I ought to have tons of clever anecdotes, and I'm certain I laughed all day, but I'm so tired at te moment that I can't seem to remember anything.

Still have to change the blankets of my bed before I can relax in it.  Can't... Wait...