Folks!
Merry Christmas.
I hope all was
swell.
I've certainly been....
more swell.
However, the holidays were quite the relief. It’s nice to dip out of life when you're a student. Going home to where you grew
up feels like escaping one reality and going to a safe, familiar, old one.
It was certainly a
breath of fresh air for me.
Thanks Seattle. Love you.
Christmas was a gift as
well. I love chillaxin with my brother and my little sister. We are, of course,
missing our brother Andrew (currently referred to as Elder). But that’s the way
it goes. The beginning of the week was filled with frantic shopping trips. My
brother convinced me to go shopping with him on Tuesday because he needed to
get a gift for our mom, and to be honest, I don't ever turn down his
invites.
#bondingtime #arareopportunity
So we're shopping right,
and then I was like:
"Brandon, I forgot
to get you a present. What do you want?" #classy
And then true to
tradition, he said, "a video game".
In all soberness, I
think I have purchased him a video game for the past 15 years at Christmas. He
and I are sort of closet gamers. Sort of. But I have to be so careful with this
statement because sometimes I’ll tell my guy friends this and then they wanna
play me and they literally kick my butt. The result is profound embarrassment.
Ok but not ONLY do I buy
him a video game nearly every year, it's almost ALWAYS Madden from that particular
year. This year was no different. “I want Madden.”
Can I just say
something? Boring. Madden is so boring. I get bored just thinking about it. But
it's his present, so I’m down.
We go to GameStop which
feels like home to me. I sincerely love going to GameStop. One time my last
boyfriend was like, “Look I need to go to GameStop to buy a new Xbox” and
inside I was just like, “!!!” this is a great date to me. I played the entire
time we were there at one of those little stations. When he said, “ok Alaina
time to go” I was secretly like “sweetheart wait....” because I didn't want to leave. Then later we legit played black ops and I sucked so bad and it was
embarrassing.
***Important side note.
A girl can like makeup, books, and
video games. What is the big deal here? I always see dumb Facebook things like,
"be the girl that likes to read! not put on makeup!" and I’m like
what the cuss?? What if I wanna read Hemingway and contour? What if I wanna
read about concealers or Skyrim cheats? Get outta here you little freaks. If
you're making those memes stop. Please just stop. You're hurting me. ***
***Those memes are not
even a big deal tho***
Anyways. Brandon. So
we're looking around. Great here is Madden. And then we start scanning. Casually
at first--we didn't mean any harm--but seriously it’s a slippery slope folks. Because
all of the sudden we are finding some real rubies like Lord of the Rings Dominion
and that was sure tempting for us.... when suddenly.... Brandon picks up Farming
Simulator.
One more time. Farming
Simulator.
Guess what’s on the
front.
A tractor.
Like a tractor in a
field of wheat.
This has to be a joke, because, of course.
Brandon says, "no
this WILL BE SWEET. I don’t want Madden. This looks sick! I’m gonna be the
richest farmer in the world! I’m gonna make so much dang money!"
Okay Brandon but just remember that it’s a simulator.
By this point I’m alarmed, but he is set. So set
on on Farming Simulator. The most set ever.
and I’m like, this game
is pre-owned and its $32??? You better make the most money in the world.
I buy Farming Simulator. I’m grimacing while I hand the cashier my credit card. This is a new low
for me.
That night I’m getting
ready to wrap Farming Simulator so I say, “Brandon what'd you do with Farming
Simulator I need to wrap it for you”.
This is what he says to me.
"Oh I took it to Campo's
house and left it there" then I was just fuming because I spent good money
on the Farming Simulator!!!!!!!!!! *but this is how excited he is to play Farming
Simulator* He steals it! so I’m all, "Brandon you better freaking get back
Farming Simulator tonight! Go and get Farming Simulator right now! I need to
wrap Farming Simulator!"
He got it back and I
wrapped it. He opened it Christmas eve and he was pumped and consequently started
playing immediately. I go in there when he's about an hour into it and he is
literally $200,000 in debt and plowing a field! Haha straight up! But he must
be drunk or something because he is crashing his tractor into his trailer and
grain is going everywhere and I’m getting a lot more excited about Farming
Simulator all of a sudden.
So he plays on. Every
time I go downstairs he's playing Farming Simulator and I end up mesmerized. One
because he can speed time up, and two because now he is getting really rich and
he can drive his tractors everywhere.
Good choice,
Brando.
Merry Christmas
everyone.
