Say Cheese... Now Smile!

WHooooo... good weekend. :)

Friday night, went over to Tina and Mae's for our little SL/CSUF/FRIENDS&FAMILY party. I swear... pratically every furniture in their apartment says "PROPERTY OF CSUF" on it. (They bought it.. really. ;)) Anways, we did our usual "kris kringle" were pretty much everyone with the exception of Joey "Holy Cow.. that's a dick!" knew who had who and later watched "Can't Hardly Wait." ("Yo.. I gots to have sex tonight.") Afterwards, went over to Beth's to drop off her Christmas gift and the dolly for her big move... :)

Saturday.. woke up bright and early to get ready for my mom's Barkada Christmas party. :) Every year, a different family hosts the party... and so my mom wanted to make sure EVERYTHING was perfect since it was the first time that we were having a big "family" function in the house. In fact, she went into Christmas nazi mode (TIMES 2!). It was pretty frightening. But everything was great and the party was a lot of fun (Oh my goodness.. so much food. We got leftovers... call if you want some!). I swear, every year the parents gather up all the kids and force us to take a picture in a stairway... I'm sure it was pretty adorable with 13 kids under the age of 10 all happy and smiling, snug as a bug in a rug on those stairs... but now all the "kids" are either in their teens or 20's and to cramp us on there that way just isn't cute anymore. I was definitely feeling the "old" that night because the youngest kid, Cheryl, is going to enter St. Lucy's next year... and I remember when she used to be a BABY!! (Actually, since I'm the 3rd oldest of all the kids, I remember when a lot of them were babies! I remember vividly when Benji was 5 years old, he was trying to jump rope with the big kids and he was holding potato chips, but he fell down. All of us stopped because we were CERTAIN that he would start crying.. but he didn't, and instead reached for a broken potato chip on the ground and put it in his mouth. HE'S A SOPHOMORE IN HIGH SCOOL NOW!! Oh weirdness... Moving on...) Rather then having all the kids sit in a room and watch TV while waiting for the gift exchange... this year, Tito Jerry had us gambling and yelling obnoxiously with the adults at the dinning room table and taking shots with them as well. ;) *WHOOOHOOO!!! GOOD TIMES!!* Also we played some "pusoy dos" but unfortunantly, I didn't have any proper playing cards other than my GARFIELD ones were instead of the hearts, clubs, spades, and diamonds... my cards had Garfield, Odie, Nermal (the "cute" gray cat) and Arlene (the pink cat) which made playing rather difficult. ("Who has the 3 of Odie!?!") This year, no one won any XBOXs... but Kris Kringles were still a lot of fun. Actually, the main highlight now of the parties is watching the adults play White Elephant. You wouldn't think it, but they can be so ruthless... but its pretty hilarious to watch your mom fight for a cordless phone or your aunts and uncles scheming to take a cuppuchino maker from each other...