Friday, December 23, 2005

I'm home but where are my parents?

I guess I should be used to the fact that my parents are never home, particularly right before Christmas, but it's a little weird for me to travel all this way home - to sit alone at the house! I could do that just fine back in Syracuse.

During the day, I ran some errands for my mom; namely, I bought Christmas presents for my dad. Pretty uneventful but I admit that I forgot what it's like to take about 20 minutes to go 6 miles because there is a lot of traffic. In Syracuse, that doesn't usually happen.

When I got home, I decorated our Christmas tree. I remember a time when my parents talked about getting two trees to decorate and now we barely decorate one. The tree is, as usual, gigantic and is kind of a pain in the ass to decorate, but it is pretty. They should be happy to see it decorated, I'm guessing. I'm trying to be nice and helpful in whatever ways I can while I'm home. While I decorated, I of course listened to some of my parents' Christmas tunes. That's a prerequisite for tree decorating, as far as I'm concerned. Luckily, they have some Christmas CDs because I did such a bad job of providing traveling music for myself. I spent time yesterday morning burning a CD of various music and then when I got in the car, it didn't even work. Also, I somehow forgot to bring home my Gavin DeGraw CD, which I about have memorized because I listen to it and love it so much. However, as I was going through my parents' Christmas music, I came across a CD with 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' sung by Gavin!! So that will have to make do this next week. And maybe my brother will let me burn a CD while I'm over at their house this week. Or not.

While I was driving around this afternoon, I remembered some of the restaurants that I take for granted here that aren't in Syracuse. Some, like Steak 'n Shake, do not make me too sad. I barely like Steak 'n Shake. However, I do like Donatos, Dairy Queen and Chipotle, none of which have made it to the 'Cuse. It's a travesty, it really is.

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