My Christmas was… uneventful until the evening (when the family came over) actually. It felt just like any other day. I didn’t get any presents because I’m going to receive them a bit late. Come Christmas Eve, our parents were online at the Best Buy Online Boxing Day Sale where we struggled with the defunct online queue bar that never seemed to go past 0%. Soon enough, Best Buy blocked traffic off the site, citing Technical Difficulties because of excessive traffic. This went on for about an hour until we finally got through and bought my digicam, which arrived just two days ago! It was a bit confusing at first, what with all the buttons and menus popping up at me all at once, but I think my camera and I have made friends.

Boxing Day, my mum and I got up early in the morning and went to EB Games to buy Pokémon Pearl for me and Smackdown VS RAW 2008 for my brother. I was also promised a shiny Nintendo DS Lite come mid-January (my brother’s been suckered into keeping the old clunker DS) when it should be available, since it seems that the DS is basically an extinct species during the holiday season.

It’s hard to believe that today is the last day of the year 2007. I don’t have that feeling of complacence that everyone should enjoy at the start of a new year. Too much has been happening, and everything seems to be rushing past me, all so fast.

Later on today, my cousins and their parents will be moving into our basement. They’d bought a condo, see, and had already submitted a moving out notice to their apartment administrators. However, several mortgage issues — which I will not further detail — surfaced and now the five of them’ll be sleeping in our basement until further notice, while most of their furniture will be dropped off at a family friend’s house. Full House flashback, anyone?

I should be used to this. Before we moved to Canada, I actually shared a house with two other families, bringing the total up to 14 people in one house (that, excluding the household staff and such, who had to live in the shacks at our yard; Indonesian stuff, won’t bother to elaborate). But while we weren’t immensely rich in Indonesia, we lived in a humongous three-story house. The house we have in Canada has only one story plus the basement, and the backyard can actually be considered larger than the actual house. What would happen? Waiting lines for the bathroom, computer, kitchen, and that façade you’ve got to put up every time family comes over.

My New Year’s Resolution: keep a cool head and survive this. Avoid brain overheating. Also, develop a stronger bladder.

I’ll report back once all this is over. Merry belated Christmas and best wishes for 2008, everybody!