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Phat Lewtz
Merry Belated Freaking Christmas!
James Brown died on Christmas. How sad. He was another one of those guys that I wished I could have seen live, but oh well. I can still dream of seeing Pavarotti in concert, although I doubt that will happen.
I was in a pretty bad mood on Christmas Eve. I don’t think it is PMS, since that shouldn’t start for another week, I think. I think it is just the holidays and me missing that certain person who seems to have forgotten me already.
My Mom’s friend Alda invited us to her annual Christmas Eve dinner at the Natsunoya Tea House. This place has been around since at least the 1920’s and it’s the last fully functioning tea house in Hawaii. It’s also about 2 streets away from my house, but I had never been there. It is quite Japanese too. You have to remove your shoes when you enter a dining area and you also sit on the floor in the main dining room.
Alda reserved a party room though, so we did get to sit in chairs. The party room was away from the main house, down a little walkway and that was in a kind of pseudo Japanese garden. The room had tatami floors too! I don’t have any pictures though, since I forgot my camera and I don’t have net service on my phone.
Dinner was nice though. It was family style with a lot of Japanese food. After dinner we played some games like Christmas Carol Pictionary. Alda also got some door prizes so everyone left with a present – which was awfully nice of her.
But, onto the Phat Lewtz!
I didn’t get much this year, but I don’t really get that many gifts anymore anyway. I did get a little spending money from my Grandma though – woot! Well, I got it a little before Christmas, and so I decided to get myself a couple of things that I had been wanting for a little while. I got a Brita pitcher that was really cheap at WalMart. I mean, the pitcher was cheaper than a filter and it came with a filter! Go figure. I should have gotten another one, just for the filter, but oh well.
The other thing I got myself was a Joby Gorillapod. What’s a Gorillapod? Only the coolest tripod out there – that’s what!
In case you can’t tell, it’s a flexible mini tripod. The neat thing is that the legs are fully flexible, so you can bend them around things – like poles, door knobs, whatever, in order to get the shot you want to get. Or like in the photo above, your camera can be on an uneven surface, but still be able to get stable shot. I would post a pic of my camera on it, but then I wouldn’t have a camera to take the picture. Doh.
The Gorillapod is also pretty tiny – it’s about 6 inches long and weighs a little less than an ounce – so it is easily transportable – especially considering that you could literally just loop it around a backpack or purse strap to transport it.
For more pictures, there is a whole photoset over at Flickr that you can check out.
Let’s see what else? Well, like so many years before this one, we got a lot of family gifts that consisted of snacks. Although the best one that we got was this one -
I *heart* Coffee.
My Mom’s tenant also gave me some soap and a Japanese wash cloth. It was very sweet of her, but I just find it extremely funny too.
My Mom got me one of those fancy art sets with like 100 tubes of oil, acrylic and water color paints, some colored pencils, some water color pencils and some oil pastels. Yikes! That’s a lot of color! It also came in a fancy wooden box. I am going to put pictures up of it tomorrow. The ones I took today came out all funky with a lot of glare. Oh well.
I didn’t get Rayne anything special for Christmas. I already got her a monster bag of sparkly fuzzies and she has subsequently lost like half of them. I am sure I can find them, but I would have to search all over the floor – under furniture and stuff – to find them. But it’s cool since she still has like 10 available to her right now.
Instead we gave her a special treat for the holiday.
It’s sashimi! She went absolutely bonkers over it. She only ate half of it though, we are saving the rest for tomorrow.
I got my Mom a Family Guy DVD set and she loves it. I got her hooked on Family Guy months ago and well, we watched like 5 hours of episodes today. Ach.
So I thought I would close this post with some holiday related photos.
This is what happens when you let a poinsettia plant go wild. It becomes a giant bush!
December 26th, 2006
