christmas day with the family

with the EXTENDED FAMILY! <- FB PHOTOLINK

My dad's cousin's daughters' kids.

A whole load of them. Technically I'm an aunt many times removed, however we all thought it would be more appropriate for them to call me "jie jie" or Belle :)
They're so cute.

So hectic.

So firstly, in my previous blog I mentioned I only got an hours notice.. we had THAT much time to buy gifts.. on XMAS DAY. So our first location, someplace that will be open everyday except Chinese New Year, Jusco. Yep. And we bought party foods + Gift foods (gift foods are foods you buy that you never end up eating yourself, or foods you normally do not buy to eat for yourself, because you cannot afford to eat it often and are only there for people to buy as "Giftfoods"). Okay I know I sound sort of crazy right now, but I had 2 cans of red bull. So, yeah please excuse my lack of coherence. My eyelidS (yes plural) are twitching.. My brain feels like its pumping. Holy crap. Caffine is KILLING ME.

Far out.

There is a story behind this. I don't normally drink stuff like this... But story later

SO, at Jusco I decided to buy some bribery foods, otherwise known as lollies ! "CAAANDY, SHE HAS CAAAAANDY" bought a whole tin + some funky gum. The kids loved it. THEY ALL FLOCKED AROUND ME. This is one of the advantages of having a job -> buying candy to attract kids. lol.

Last week, when I was in Canberra, my sister had these kids over (THE KIDS DIDN'T REMEMBER ME, FROM THE LAST TIME I BRIBED THEM WITH BALLOON POODLES IN FEBRUARY) so yeah, she had a head start in jogging their memory of her. WHen we got there, all the kids were screaming "KELLY ! KELLY ! KELLY!" and they were really scared of me :(

SO. RICKY, my cousin-onceortwiceremoved-inlaw, dressed up as santa (lol yeaah). Hilarious. Photos are on facebook.

OH! My dad recently had a blood test check up, and we found out that he has super high sugar levels. SO PLEASE DON'T FEED HIM STARCH OR ALCOHOL. Today, I had to wrestle cups of alcohol from his hand, and Jessie, one of my cousins was like "Nahh, let him have it, LET him have it" NOOO he had HEAPS yday at the street party . LOADS. LOADS! So I drank some ! The white wine was NICE! :) I love my liquor store owning cousins. lol

BUT ANYWAY.

We got there 30 mins late. After getting lost in Pemulwuy/Nelson's Ridge because.. we have an OLD street directory.. and ALL the streets there are new :( THE HOUSES ARE SO TIGHTLY PACKED TOGETHER. its 90cm between each house.

you could possibly hear SOUNDS from next door... ha.. haa... haaaa *shifty*

So we ended up staying there for lunch, AND dinner. After dinner I was so sleepy. SO tired from looking after the kids, finger painting with them, colouring in, with their super funky textas and their crayola colouring books, taking videos/photos of them screaming and bopping up and down... maniacally. THEY'RE SO FULL OF ENERGY. But I wasnt. So about 9. Ricky saw me nodding off at the dining table, and offered Kelly and I some redbull. Oh man. in the car, Kelly said she had enough, and she gaev me her can.

SO this is why im still very awake after such a tiring day. like 100% awake.

Recently, a friend from primary school contacted me via facebook!!!!!! I seriously hadn't talked to him in ages and WOOOW so many primary school memories have been triggered. So fun talking about the past. 8) I'm glad the past is catching up with me. :)

Hmm. my neck is pulsating.

strongly.

okay. its twitching now.

I'll upload some kiddy screaming vids later. cbb uploading them yet.

Well, hope you all had a good Christmas. I had a great one this year, with my lovely family.

Goodluck with BOXING DAY SALES. Hopefully I'll be awake intime for that. :P