# How I Spent My Christmas Vacation

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 24, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-christmas-vacation/47090 "2000-12-24T15:59:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-christmas-vacation/47090/1 "2000-12-24T15:59:18Z")

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I’m meeting the mom-ster and her husband, my sister and her man, and my 19-month-old nephew in Orange County today. We’re going out for brunch at a Mexican restaurant.

Tonight I’m picking up my best **fiend** at LAX and taking him up the the high desert to his mom’s house. I’ll RON there and come back Monday.

I found out Friday that we get Tuesday off as well as Monday. (I’d have been a bit perplexed having to use a key card to get in the public entrance!) I’ll probably hang out and play _Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation_ all day.

Heading down to San Diego with my friend to go to his friend’s NYE party. Friend will stay at my place (I got a new inflatable bed for him in the living room. (Those things really _do_ work!) Taking the 4th and 5th off, so we’re heading out to Las Vegas for a convention after I get off work on the 3rd. Back to Los Hideous on the 6th or 7th, while my friend departs LAS for SEA, then BLI.

So it will be an action-packed couple of weeks. Now if only I can find a(n) SO to spend the holidays with next year…

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2000, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-christmas-vacation/47090/2 "2000-12-25T00:04:35Z")

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Okay, so the nephew is 18 months. I got him a stuffed hyena and a Mozart CD.

Sis brought back a bottle of Everclear (190 proof – 95% alcohol!). Also came away with _Apocalypse Now_ on DVD, a $25 gift certificate from Mom, and a Mexican brunch.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-christmas-vacation/47090/3 "2000-12-27T13:36:46Z")

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Hey, _someone_ has to post to this thread! May as well be me! 😛

Haven’t touched the Everclear. Yet.