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merry christmas! 

so, as december is upon us, i've gotten a few invitations to christmas parties.  i love christmas parties and i think i've been invited to more than i have ever been invited to.  i'm appreciative, and love that people are having christmas parties to share this season with friends.  so far, each christmas party has been just that, christmasy!   

but, i feel i need to share this email i got simply because my friends are hilarious.  i am so lucky to have very clever, witty friends that involve rolling on the floor, side-splitting laughter every time they are around and their emails have a similar effect.  so you can imagine how my weekend was when this particular friend came to visit.  i laughed more in 3 days than i think i've laughed in an entire year.  but anyway, he's famous for his christmas parties (and pre-christmas party emails) simply because he loves this season and i wished i could have taken a quick trip to michigan to partake in the festivities and i feel you all will feel that way too.  and so, i take no credit for this, but instead pay tribute to sanjeet's humor and good christmas cheer!

Friends, Acquaintances, Strangers, and Lovers,

A Christmas Tale of Adventure:

As you all know, many, many years ago, a young boy by the name of Kris was born to the royal Kringle family of the Northern Pole Kingdom.  He enjoyed a gay and carefree childhood until the night of his sixth birthday, when King Kringle’s evil brother Sanchez and his group of rebel insurgents known as the Lump of Coal Society, executed a coup-de-tat, murdering the Kringles in cold blood and kidnapping the wee lad Kris to use for their own dubious ends.  Luckily, the little Kris escaped using his Christmas Magic, changed his name to Santa Claus, and took odd jobs for local malls, the Salvation Army, and Coca-Cola in order to get by. Always on the move, Santa successfully evaded the Society and its evil elves for years. Dejected, his pursuers retired to the Southern Pole Kingdom, enslaved the penguins, and made crappy movies like Surf’s Up and Batman Returns.

At least, so we thought….

I caught up with a frantic Santa on Google Chat earlier this week, and he claims that Sanchez has returned and is more powerful than ever. Armed to the teeth with exploding fruit cakes and a secret weapon called “global warming”, the Lump of Coal Society is now hell-bent on world domination. Only Santa can stop them, and he needs your help!

At 9:01PM on December 7, at Berrytree F-104, the battles will begin and the fourth annual Christmastravaganzafest will commence.  Come ready to engage in much festivity and yuletide.  Sanjeet the house elf will be manufacturing  the widely acclaimed Vanderbilt Doghouse Wassail in small batches, and other special holiday beverages will be on hand for your drinking pleasure as we gather 'round the fire and share warm glances. the wassail is known for going fast, so bring your own favorite alcoholic libations to rock around the Christmas tree all night long. Bring whoever you want and know that dressing in your side’s attire is a must.  If you hail from Sweden, a Cosby sweater would be a great way to declare your neutrality. The battle for Santa has begun!

Who: You, me, him, her. Even that scary old guy from Home Alone will make an appearance with his trashcan salt-mummies. In other words, it’s not exclusive in the slightest. Spread the Word.
What: Mistletoe, Sugarplums, and Christmas Miracles.
When: Friday, December 7, 2007 – 9:01PM
Where: The Dharma Lounge. Mapquest it. Yahoo it. Googlemap it. Just make it happen.
How: Dogsled acceptable, Chimney preferred.
Why: Cause baby, it’s cold outside.

And so the feeling grows,

Sanjeet 

oh, baby, baby baby

so as it turns out, these past couple of weeks have been filled with babies.  a lot.  my baby cousin ryan was born about a week and a half ago and he's upping the male : female ratio on the Wong side.  Currently, girls are winning by a lot.  5-3.  He's mad cute though.  on another note, i'm going to have cousin twins (!!!) april/may 08 on the lee side.  we don't have 2 of anything.  who knew.  who knew?!  so if they're boys they also will dramatically up the ratio.  we shall see. 

backtrack, oh i dunno, 15 years ago.  i so wanted an older cousin.  my friends were always saying things like, 'oh we're going to my cousin's wedding' and 'my cousin's having a baby and i'm an auntie/uncle'  i had no cousins even close to getting married at that age.  i'm the second oldest on both sides, so the oldest kid in my family was--my sister, a whole 2 years older.  un-exciting.  so, i was jealous of those people who had older kids in their family to admire, look up to and be flower girls in their weddings.  (btw, isn't that every little girls dream to be a flower girl?  i got to be one.  muahhaha)  today, i realized i am the older cousin.  i've wanted so long to have one and now i am one.  crazy that it turns out that way.  i've already gotten requests from some of my older cousins to be in my wedding as a flower girl or junior bridesmaid.  my reaction = scoff and say 'you'll be my age when i get married', which actually could be true.   alas, more additions to my cousin pool on both sides and it's very exciting.  we have some cute kids in my family, gotta say.  plus, i love toddlers.  newborns, eh, they're red.  but ages 1-5 are rock solid.  love it!  it's funny how God works that out.  He gives me that ultimate role of being an older cousin so other kids in my family can look up to me.  crazy... 

lately, i've been studying and studying and studying.  i probably won't be that available until after Sept 29th.  pray for me, pray for my test, pray for focus, and pray for discipline and a good work ethic these next few weeks.  i'm already slacking since i haven't studied today.  gah.  wish me luck i'm hittin' the books!