We went to grandma's house for Christmas. She kinda sucks but I put up with it (is putting up with toxic people for the sake of Christmas/Birthday money terrible? Even if so I'm too broke to care right now ><)
She told us all we'd get a $10 raise instead of ornaments, which is awesome! Apparently though, I'm not part of "all"
So instead of a $10 raise, I got NO MONEY FOR SOME REASON (She does this whenever she's mad at my mom, which is really dumb, but yeah) and we didn't even do anything except be way nicer to her than we would if we were being our true selves.
So apparently "$10 Raise" is synonymous with "You only got $25 for the entire holiday when you usually get like $55"
Thanks, man.
...I hope that didn't make me sound too ungrateful, I'm happy about the gifts everyone else got me. (That weren't a calendar from a restaurant and a shirt I actually don't like. 4 years ago Dwessie would have liked it, but not adult Dwessie who wants to be taken seriously sometimes)
Anyway, the cool stuff I got was a Samsung Tab 4, some clothes I DO like, some hair chalk (I used some green for Christmas to make my hair nice and festive), an adult coloring book and new colored pencils, some orange soup spoons (Like the ones at fancy restaurants. I friggin love those things and these ones were super cheap at World Market so mom got them for me when I saw them)
^ Soup spoons since I suck at describing them (Wow I hope my pics work. Trying to use dropbox links lol)
^ My awesome green hair. I hope this pic looks good enough for you guys to see it. It looked AMAZING on my phone and tablet, but my laptop's color settings make it not that noticeable. Weird.
This one's better
So many Christmas cookies!
Coloring book and pencils
Probably my favorite pic of me right now! My aunt always wins at presents cause she actually looks at my wishlists and works with them, and just like last year she got me an outfit that's so awesome I actually ran to go change into it. I tried getting some selfies, but I couldn't get everything in them, so my cousin took this pic for me!
After Christmas, we went right to my mom's work/my school, because they're moving to a new building! It's smaller but in a good way (Way more space efficient, forces them to stop hoarding books from 1992 about installing internet. Really, we found one of those, and literally $5,000 less in MONTHLY RENT).
It's been a process, but kinda fun. Mom finds it overwhelming and horrible, but I like moving into new places. It feels so fresh and full of potential. I have a pic from these days too because I take pictures of everything and find using them makes it easier to remember things to post.
The owner of the business/mom's boss decided the new place won't have a kitchen, since nobody ever washes their dishes. They kept the fridge for people's lunches, and we got a better coffee pot, but that's IT. So I got to take this entire nice red dinnerware set. I'm slowly collecting things like this so by the time Tam and I can live together, we'll already have stuff and not have to run to the store frantically.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST, NEW YEAR'S!
We went to my aunt (the awesome present giving one) and uncle's house for a little get together. There were some fun times!
Te vegetable tray I completely destroyed, more snacks, and apple beer that's actually really friggin good.
The actual worst picture of a bonfire ever. We had one though, and it was fun, cause like usual the husbands were around it making inappropriate jokes about each other, having some cognac, and smoking cigars. (I join in on special occasions) We hung out for a while until the fire couldn't keep us warm enough.
Apparently I forgot to get more pics than that as well. New Year's Resolution material I guess lol.
Anyway yeah, that's how my December was.
Up next, MY BIRTHDAY!!