I guess I should write about it. On New Years eve, I woke up to go to work and ate. After eating, I started feeling sick to my stomach. I laid back down and fell back asleep. I eventually got up and took a shower. It wound up being a good thing that I didn't go to work because I threw up while I was in the shower. Great. The day I go home and I am sick. Typical of my luck. I only threw up that once. I didn't let it stop me from going home, though. After a little bit of trouble, I found the Harrisburg Airport. Seemed like I drove forever once I got there to actually get to the long term parking. I took a bus there to the one terminal. The airport is small. From there, everything went by rather smoothly and I eventually found myself back in Texas, where I belong.

When I arrived in Texas, I texted my mom that I had landed and didn't have to wait for too long for her to show up. It was cold there that night. What the hell! I thought I left that crap back in Pennsylvania. I wanted it to be not cold. What the hell Texas? You are not supposed to be cold!

Anyway, my mom picked me up at the airport. She had Pierre with her. Pierre is my mother's 6 year old Yorkshire Terrier. I love the little guy! He was so happy to see me, too. Who says dogs don't have a memory, huh? :P I guess if you live in the house as a person for 6 years, you have to remember them. We drove around looking for a place to eat. We didn't find anything open, except for Applebees. IT was New Years Eve. OF course everything was closed. We didn't go to Applebees because we had the dog with us. We didn't want to leave him in the car. We wound up going home and cooking a pizza. We watched the Dallas New Years festivities on TV and had a fire going. My bottle of shampoo burst open. That wasn't fun to clean up. Oh. The dogs (Roxy, a 2 year old Yorky and Oreo, a 7 year old Pointer/Lab mix) hounded me and were also glad to see me. I missed them so much.

On Friday, I went out and bought presents for family Christmas. I went to Best Buy, where I bought Uncharted: Drake's Fortune for my brother and Ghostbusters on Blu Ray for my dad. I got to the counter and the card my mom gave me didn't work. My dad had to drive up to Best Buy and pay for it himself. He did not find out what was in the bag. Thank God for that
:P I got in my dad's car and we went to Bed Bath and Beyond where I got a set of plastic food dishes for my mom for leftovers and whatnot as well as a new set of silverware and a few other assorted items. My dad drove me back to Best Buy and I got in my mom's car and stopped by Gamestop, where my friend Joe was working. I talked to him for a while. When I got home, my uncles Ron and Preston were there. They were going to watch the OSU game with my dad. The place was too crowded, so I went over to spend the night at my brothers. We played some games and his yorky, Buckley, was very happy to see me as well. We played some games, watched a movie and crashed.

On Saturday, my mom picked me up at my brothers place and we drove up to Manitou, Oklahoma to get my uncle Mike. He wanted to come down for family Christmas. I got to go up there and see his two German Shepherds again. Their names are Sampson and Delilah. Sampson is a big dog. He is 120 pounds and none of it is fat. He is a beautiful dog too. I think he is 2 years old now, though I am not sure. Delilah is 8 months old I believe. SHe isn't full grown yet. She is very cuddly and always wants to get loved on. Sampson loves to play frisbee. On the way back home, we listened to the Oklahoma State game. They lost. Damn it. My uncles Ron and Preston went home that day. My uncle Mike wound up staying in my old room, so I slept in my brothers old room.

Sunday was family Christmas. What can I say? Christmas kicks ass. I got: Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, a PC that will be decent for gaming, Boondock Saints (Blu Ray), Alien vs Predator Requiem (Blu Ray. I don't care for this movie. I traded it in for The Simpsons season 9 and the Chickenfoot album), Reservoir Dogs (Blu Ray. Already owned this. Oops. Trading it in for Batman on Blu Ray. The 1989 flick with Nicholson as the Joker. Amazing flick. Still waiting to get it), Planet of the Apes (Original. Blu Ray), Species (Blu Ray), Inglorious Basterds (Blu Ray), 200 dollars (Which I used to buy a PSP 3000, a 256 gig memory stick, Ratchet and Clank Size Matters and Resistance Retribution) and randomly assorted things for the kitchen at my apartment and long sleeved shirts. I also got At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft, A Feast of Crows by George RR Martin and Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth by Simon R Green. I love to read

That night, my dad called us and told us that an ice storm was headed to Oklahoma earlier than expected. If we wanted to make it in ahead of the storm, we would have to leave the next day. We did this. We drove to Manitou first to drop my uncle off and, from there, to Mustang, Oklahoma, where my uncle lives. We spent the night there and watched coach. The next day, we went from there to my grandparents place outside of Hydro, Oklahoma, where we held Chrismas at their place. There, I got 3 more books, randomly assorted things for the apartment, Red Dwarf: Back to Earth (DVD) and another 225 dollars, which I used to buy: component cables for my PSP 3000, Darksiders: Wrath of War, a second PS3 controller Frampton Comes Alive by Peter Frampton (vinyl), Speak English or Die by SOD (vinyl), Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (Vinyl), The Magician's Birthday by Uriah Heep (Vinyl), A Farewell to Kings by Rush (Vinyl) and Christmas presents for my room mate (a white tiger plush toy and Batman for the NES) and his brother (A Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess bean cap). The rest I gave to my Room Mate.

After coming home from this. I was finally able to relax and quit running around so much. I visited my brother one more time. I watched the Cowboys kick the thunder out of the Eagles...twice. I spent a lot of time with my mom and the dogs. I watched Black Adder (Prior to going home, I had ordered two discs of Black Adder for my dad and Red Dwarf: Back to Earth on Blu Ray for my brother) and Inglorious Basterds with my mom and dad. I went to Game Attack, the Screw Attack store. I spent a lot of time playing with the dogs and was sad when I had to finally come home. Texas is where I belong, not Pennsylvania