I'm feeling so much better. The feeling better came when I woke up yesterday in the afternoon and went to go have my first smoke. At the bottom of the stairs, I had a present waiting from my mother. First off, it looked like it was addressed to Shine and it wished me a "Merry Churtina". The first part may be attributed to bad handwriting, but the second part the "tina" part is definitely not even close to "mas". My friends think that this is a subliminal message from my mother.

Well anyway, when I got inside the package, I immediately cracked up. She sent me car chimes (which I was not familiar with).



This is similar to mine except mine is a wizard. I know you are thinking "that's HOT". Anyway, this was the best Christmas or Churtina present I've ever received. This is the only thing that I've received from my parents by the way of Christmas so far. I think that it could be worse but those things will have to wait until they visit mid-January.

My mother gives the worst gifts possible. This reminds me of the year that I got a four-foot tall talking Goofy doll. It spoke and was huge and I was 15 or so years old. My brother had warned me ahead of time that I needed to be very excited when I opened up the big present. It had been very expensive and she was very proud of herself. To this day, I still have to talk about it as the best Christmas present ever. This is where honesty and my mother completely split. I think she was sad that I didn't take him to college with me. I think she has asked me several times moving around the state if she should bring him along to move in with me. Each time I've had to say, "I would love to have him here with me, but he is just so big that I don't have the space."

So in order to make myself feel even better after receiving such a great present, I drank...a lot. I was having drinks with my boss and Jim when my friends called to tell me that they were all going out and that I should go with them. These are college friends who I have not seen forever. While having drinks with these friends, other college friends called to tell me that they were hanging out with two of the people that were already at the bar. The funny thing is that they had no idea they were hanging out. So everyone ended up going to this bar in the Loop and having a crazy time. I got wicked wicked drunk and ended up having to end the night early because I was soooo not feeling well. I might have gotten a little sick. I say might have when I mean I did.

Tonight-more fun.