The Day After

Christmas 2004 came and went. I got the usual gifts-I-don’t-really-need-every-year (my sister gave me a surfer’s shirt—I don’t even swim! And my brother and his wife gave me a cross I could hang on my wall—Jeez! Literally!) But my brother flipped when he got the DVD of Godspell which I got for him, and my nephew and niece loved the Lego stuff I got them.

I did nothing but eat, eat, and then repeat. Our maid does the meanest barbeque ever, and I lost count of how many sticks I demolished. And after lunch I was still munching on silvanas, popcorn, sans rival, more barbeque, Majestic ham (mmmmm!) and spaghetti with pesto sauce. That is why I went to the gym today, because by tomorrow we’ll be flying off to Bohol and I won’t be able to exercise again until after we come back on Jan. 10.

Oh, and yesterday after lunch we all watched the special extended DVD edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which had 50+ minutes added to it. The extras are so extensive, it’ll take another three hours to go through them. Next time na lang. (But I was able to find the two hilarious easter eggs in the discs. One had a fake interview with Elijah Wood, another was the MTV Movie Awards skit with Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Peter Jackson.)

To all of you with dysfunctional families (or feeling ninyo dysfunctional pero sa totoo lang hindi naman talaga), I hope your Christmas day—which is really for the family—was a peaceful, joyful one. Kahit minsan man lang sa isang taon.

While I’m in Bohol and Cebu I’ll try to keep up The McVie Show via internet cafes. And since I bought Nik a bigger memory card (he came with a 128, and I bought him a 256 for the trip), more pictures will be posted—after I get back, of course.

I doubt if I’ll be having sex throughout the trip, since I’ll be with my mom, brother and sister. But hey, you’ll never know, hehehe.

Happy New Year, folks!