Brian's World

Merry Christmas

Well its a few days after christmas… like 2… and my brothers birthday was yesterday. Everything is finally done until New Years, so its time to relax a little bit. I guess I’ll recap the holidays, and the end of the first semester for me at RPI.

Kevin Birthday:

Yesterday Kevin turned 17! We sang Happy Birthday on Christmas Eve when there was a large crowd over here… to celebrate his birthday Katie and I took Kevin out and tried to do stuff that was semi-fun. For presents, he got an ipod clock radio from my parents, and DDR for the Xbox from me. Everyone else gave him money. So… we went out the the mall where we bought another DDR pad so two people could play. I’m excited to play DDR online with Xbox live.. I’m not very good at it but Kevin and Katie can rock the pads. We also watched Silent Hill, it was pretty scarry, but even more confusing. I didn’t understand a lot of the transitions, apparently its based on a game though, wierd game. For dinner we got take out. Potato Pizza for Kevin, Fish and Chips for Katie, and Meatball Grinder for me.

Christmas:

I got a few gifts on Christmas.. not a ton.. but thats what I figured. My parents are always bad at shopping for me, all they really have to do is stop into Best Buy and find anything in the computer section, or even maybe the DaVinci Code DVD. Nope, I got: A pillow, 512mb USB Key, Box of Goldfish crackers, Box of Reeses, and a few gift cards. Kevin got me a small bamboo plant and some scarry peacock feathers.
Kevin got a new Ipod, Ipod Case, about 800 snacks, a 512mb USB Key, and a few gift cards.

After going to 10:30 mass, I got together with Katie. Her parents got me a new Furby, Hersheys Kiss, British Cracker, and Pirates of the Carribean watch. Very kind of them! I went over to Katie’s Aunt’s house for some food, there are some interesting relatives. Ebony is a neat dog. The mashed potatoes were very tasty and so was the ham!

Later that day I got Katie’s gifts. She got me some pretty cool stuff, headphones that i despeately needed, an ‘ecosphere’… i.e small fish in a water globe, a sleeping mask, and a few other things.

Christmas Eve:

My dad’s side of the family came over and we ate the traditional polish food… I can’t spell it so I won’t try. For gifts I got a microwave. We already have one in the dorm and I don’t have the receipt so it will stay in the box until I need a microwave.

Grades:

I did well.

Overall my favorite gifts were from Katie and Kevin. I liked the ecosphere and bamboo a lot. Lets just hope I can keep them both alive.

I haven’t gotten nearly as much done as I need to for CHSBA and the message board and the new Brispace…. there just isn’t enough time!