Christmas/Yule 2007
I celebrate Christmas with my father because it means a lot to him (and it doesn’t bother me, despite the fact that I’m not Christian). The videos following will show you why it’s worth making as much of a deal of it as I do.
Dad and I were both up at 4am cause neither of us could sleep. We finished opening presents around 5:30, covering our floor in newspaper wrappings like good little recyclers.
My father loved all of his gifts, and teared up from several of them, and actually started crying when he opened up the calendar I made for him, which of course made me start crying. I almost felt bad and could feel my heart breaking watching my dad get so emotional and sentimental about the calendar. I guess when you’re used to having nothing, and then given something, it makes for a lot of emotion. It was one of the hardest as well as one of the most awesome things I’ve ever experienced. I get teary just thinking about it (like now).
Dad opening his calendar.
Dad opening the pipe my sweetheart and I gave him
Between him and my sweetheart I was given a 19″ flatscreen monitor to replace my ugly old CRT energy sucking monitor I’m using now. A new Case hunting knife, several DVD’s including Pathfinder and Stardust, organic chocolate, jumper cables, skull floormats, a new tire iron for my mustang, new gloves, and a book on natural cleaning recipes.
Right now I have some henna sitting in my hair, not a full application, but maybe 3/4’s worth since that’s what I had left. Dad is working on Christmas dinner, and we’ve already watched 1 and a half of the DVD’s I was given.
Stardust started out a bit slow as far as getting my attention, but in the end it was pretty well done. Your typical romantic fantasy movie, but with a lot of new fantasy elements to make it interesting.
Pathfinder started skipping halfway through so we have to take it back, but I wasn’t all too impressed with what I could see, beyond seeing Karl Urban in a loin cloth wielding swords and the mixture of supposed Vikings and Native Americans. They feel of the movie was done in the same dark apocalyptic feel of 300, which I don’t all too like. It distracts from the movie too much, and I wish people would stop trying to use it for dramatic emphasis.
I also wasn’t sure why the Natives didn’t speak in their native tongue, yet the Vikings did. I think that also took away from the depth of the Native American culture by forcing it into the dark setting and then having them speak clear english. While the dark setting fit well with the vikings or “dragon people”, they had the Vikings speak their native tongue. I guess -someone- had to speak English for the purpose of the movie, but I’d have rather it was the other way around. After all, nordic accents in english -are- pretty hot.
We might be driving up to Gettysburg spontaneously since we ate so early (noonish) to visit my uncle’s farm.
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