Post Thanksgiving Thing

Well... it's the Monday after Thanksgiving... I spent the day itself largely with family, so I guess I had a good Thanksgiving. I mean, at least I have family to spend it with. Though, we did what we did last year for the holiday, we hit Busch Gardens in Tampa. They have a restaurant there my parents like, though we save it for special occasions. Then we spent the rest of the day seeing the various attraction things, like their animal area thing and their hospitality house (ie, free beer place). Since I'm over 21 and don't drink, I donated my free beer to my parents.

I decided to go for broke on Black Friday. I spent my paycheck getting some Christmas gifts for my family. By family I mean my parents, since my check plus an oil change on my vehicle didn't hold out much farther than that. I got my father a 3 books, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 and The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 by Sir Author Cannon Doyle. I know he wanted to read the Dorian Gray book, and I want to read it as well (I did buy 2 copies of it. I try not to borrow other peoples Christmas gifts), but I'm not too sure about the Sherlock Holmes books. Still, I know he hasn't read them yet, so I don't see why he wouldn't like them... As for my Mom, I got her another year's subscription to Norton Anti-Virus. She gets a little paranoid about her machine, but she doesn't really know too much about it, and she's always afraid she'll break it somehow. I'll probably end up installing/placing in the renewal code for her as well. For my sisters, well, I know what to get one of them. She lost her DS charger, so I'm going to pick her up a replacement one for Christmas. For the other... well... I don't know yet.

As for my friends... haven't given it a lot of thought yet... I know I'm getting Kira (a friend in Orlando) a gift card to a clothing shop. Not because I think she needs or wants more clothes, but because I want more clothes and I don't want to go shopping by myself =P. I'm going to probably put it in one of those children's books. You know the type, the overly think, almost cardboard pages. I'm doing it like that because, every time we're in a book store, she gets distracted by them. Aaron said he didn't want anything for Christmas, but I'll probably get him some Wii or Xbox live points. Like 5 dollar's worth or something.

I've found a few new bands since I dropped my EvE subscription and picked up the Zune subscription. The first one is Savatage. They're an 80's rock band that eventually turns into Trans-Siberian Orchestra. The best thing about them is they're from Florida (Tarpon Springs to be exact), so I've been listening to them a lot. After Forever seems like a good band. Just downloaded them today though, so I've only had one listen so far. Still... they sound kind of like Old Nightwish, at least, their self titled album, After Forever does. The other ones for this band (at least, the other ones I saw) weren't available for download with the Zune subscription, they were purchase only. Finally, I found a band called Kittie. They're an all female metal band out of Canada... kind of sounds like a less technical Arch Enemy.

Hopefully, I'm getting less emoish, but... I... a part of me says no... If I can pull through the Winter I should be ok. And if I can't, well, at least there will be one less whiny blog out there. Anyway, I'm going to call it a night... ~Night!