After everyone is done singing Christmas tunes, it pretty much just turns into karaoke. You name a song you want to sing and Frank calls out the chord changes to the rest of the players. Incredible.
Watched Christmas Story (which I enjoy but sometimes makes me feel like I'm in a bit of a holiday Groundhogs day where the years get shorter every year).
Mom gave us stocking stuffers with Florida lottery tickets. I won $2 and she offered to buy me out so I didn't have to wait until my next trip to Florida to redeem my WINNINGS.
Later that afternoon, I took Brett to a music store and bought him a guitar for Christmas! He'd been wanting to learn for a while. Learning that first Amaj chord!
On Tuesday I bought a bunch of these awesome hand-drawn Christmas Cards done by my neighbor who is intellectually disabled and raises money each year by hand-drawing HUNDREDS of these great cards.
But quickly devolves into karaoke where you can just name a song and the band will look up the chords (or Frank probably already knows them and will just shout out the changes!)
On Saturday I went out to Frank & Liz's apartment for the TENTH installment of my favorite holiday party of the season: A Very Picarazzi Christmas! (Here's a link to the very first one back in 2005!)
Christmas 1987 - my brother and I freaking out about getting the long-awaited PHANTASY STAR for the Sega Master System. This was the first RPG I ever got into and it exploded both of our brains!
Brett and Amy's apartment was full with all sorts of new baby gear, so they'd asked for no presents, but my mom still insisted on getting Brett "a little something"...
...just pictures of Maddy sliding into the room in dog socks witha a concerned look. Hahah. Saddest holiday dog ever! She hate her holiday socks so hard!
Brett double-checking a suspect bag of cookies to make sure my mom hadn't substituted real holiday treats with "healthy cookies." Coast is clear, they're the real McCoy!
Holiday basket of pinecones and all I can think about is phyllotaxis, the pattern that leaves of a plant make in attaching to the stem, is pretty much the most interesting thing I keep coming back to these last few months.
