Gusher

Yes, this one's going to be a big gusher.
First, I went back to the high school and visited lots of teachers. I didn't get to see one - gym teachers are always so hard to track. It sort of saddens me, but a lot of the teachers I visited are retiring soon. I'd say in ten years, there will be no one to visit.... Well, maybe Strevie and Vas will still be around, they're still young. Marlen didn't show up, but that's okay because we went for post-Thanksgiving shopping together. Mostly I dragged her around, but I think we had bunches of fun.
I spent Thanksgiving weekend inundated with cousin happiness. On Thanksgiving day, we had 20 people in the house. My family, my second cousins, my cousins from Flushing, a cousin from Tokyo, and all the family on my daddy's side, minus Grammy whose on the other side of the world basking in the freezing tropics. We had a very Chinese Thanksgiving with yams the Chinese way, and duck instead of turkey, and the ham was roasted Chinese style. Only one thing was truly not Chinese - Sylvia's ultra delicious 3-cheese casserole, of which I had much. Oishi-desu! We ended the day playing Mafia, and poor Jon kept getting lynched by us. Oops...
Next day was ultra shopping and I bought a wonderful present for someone, but I'm not saying who it's for or what it is for fear of ruining the surprise. I bought myself a new pair of pants and got some nice Cream colored sweaters to go with it. Now that I think of it, I haven't worn anything cream colored in public in a very long time... Then Saturday, I went and did all of my homework, and cousin Maiko helped me with Japanese - I'll bet my teacher will be stumped as to where I picked up my snazzy new grammar (Jyuugyou wa, ikutsu arimasuka?)
This morning I got up at the bright and early hour of 6:30 am, and dad drove me to the airport. I got to trudge my bag by a bitchy mother (boy did I want to flick her off, and if she yelled at me about ruining her children, I'd loved to have said, "o no, ma'am, you've already ruined them yourself.") When I got off the plane, I went in search of Ben. I wandered around a couple minutes and then spotted him wandering the baggage claim and I attempted to sneak up behind him but he turned around right when I was about to give a surprise hug. O poo. Then Ben and his parents (his mom was there to show him how to get to the airport, his dad was there because he likes looking at airplanes ^_^ ) drove me back to his place. Then they brought out the Christmas tree. Pretty lights and almost all the ornaments are hand made, stuff from when Ben and his brothers were little. And they had stockings! It's a very american Christmas in their household. Then, around 2, Ben and I went the mall to get something to eat (Wendy's chicken nuggets are pretty good), but not before Ben's mom handed me an index card with instructions to put things on there that I might like for Christmas. Wow, no? So we walked around the mall till 5:30 looking at all the stores - everything's really expensive.... We took a break at one point and stuffed ourselves into one of those quarter rides for little kids, we both fit into a tiny helicopter, not at the same time and it was very crammed in there, but still, we amazingly fit. I put a few things on my list, but I felt that everything in the mall is annoyingly expensive, even the lip gloss. I put some white shiny lip gloss on, and my lips looked so huge they were about to fall off. Ben got some on himself and it was quite funny - o my metrosexual boyfriend...not really... After that, we went back to his place and I had dinner with him and his parents! Steak, baked potato and salad - wow was I full, but the food was yummy, and I didn't want to be impolite and leave food on my plate. But mostly, it was very yummy... And now I'm home, and so is Rachel. Today was a Good day!