today was our movie marathon filled with our christmas standards: yogi's first christmas, scrooged, christmas vacation and of course a christmas story on tbs. we polished off elf and the muppet family christmas the other day. right now i'm watching a little christmas eve on sesame street, i know how gay, but i haven't seen it since i was ten or so.

yesterday we made a quick trip to the mall. this year i let my sister deal with the stress of driving all of us. i did it all last year and let's just say i wasn't the nicest person by our fourth excursion. we hit up luigi's for some awesome pasta and salad that's overloaded with cheese. after that we stopped by my aunt's to hang out with her for a couple of hours. she told me that when i was four she used to tell people that she had no idea how i'd ever last one day in school, i guess i was a holy terror as a child. she said that it was hard to believe that i'd grow up to be so shy and quiet. i just said i got it all out of my system early on. i guess my sister was the exact opposite. quiet, shy, and afraid of everyone. and now she's the one who talks enough for the both of us and can be heard a good block away. crazy.

while driving to my aunt's we somehow got on the topic of strip joints. as we passed one my mom said that it was the one that she was talking about. i asked her if she wanted us to drop her off but she said no. we then got behind a mini-van with vanity plates that had two old women inside. my sister and i came up with this story that their names were joanne and denise and they were lesbians, life long life partners. my mom just laughed at us. like my sister said at least we were entertaining. i said we have to make our own entertainment, and it's a lot cheaper than going to strip joints. our mom said her friends at work are always shocked by some of the things that she comes up with. she said that she usually just blames us and says that we're the ones who corrupted her.