pinksonia | Belated Holiday Round-up

Well I'm back to work not, and have been for four days, so I guess the "Wow! I've been rather busy over vacation-type days round-up post" is sadly over due. But, I am nothing if not sadly over due. So here we go:

Pennsylvania snowed for me. Twice. And it managed to do it the day before I came home and two days before I went back so that none of my planes were canceled. Yay! I really meant to go sledding at some point, but somehow I never got around to it. Much like I never got around to seeing Sherlock Holmes with my father.
The luminarias went so much faster this year than any previous year. Apparently assembly lines where my brother and I take jobs without speaking to each other work better than any other kind. Also, possibly the only leaving a certain amount of time by going to a movie that only gets out about two hours before Christmas eve services.
We succeeded in convincing my mother to go to the 5:30 service -- the one with all the little kids being cute and performing. Now, if we could just convince her to go to the 3:00 for the unrehearsed Christmas Padget, where you can wear whatever costume you want. Ryan and I want to be first and second lobster.
I got to school my family in Rock Band Christmas evening! Yay! being the singer. I even got told by my youngest cousin "you have to play on medium or hard, if you play a lot" He didn't believe that it was my first time playing. All those years of sight singing in choir paid off for something.
After never having participated in a Fandom Secret Santa, I volunteered myself for two. It didn't turn out too badly. I got a lovely Guy/Marian fic from ladyoneill and a bunch of Glee icons from setentpet. Plus the people I made graphics and one fan-mix for seemed to enjoy them.
On the 27th Toenails (or the British ex-pat's Indian food eating club of which my parents are members despite not being ex-pats) came for the People's Light and Theater panto and yummy dinner at the Himalayan. The lady who sat next to me at dinner seemed to think she had to walk me through Indian cuisine despite the fact that I had chosen all the food that she was eating. It was weird. The panto was great as usual -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This year they strayed further than usual from the fairy tale. Making the show about making a movie of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which I'm not sure I liked as much -- but still really, really funny.
Went down to see glowwormtu in DC for three days. We acted like the 1776 geeks that we are while viewing the Declaration of Independence. The docent told everyone which case it was in by referencing Richard Henry Lee in a picture, so we had a bit of a "Lee's of Old Virginia" squee. Then there were pretty gems, forensic anthropology, and Ruby slippers at the various Smithsonians. All-in-all a good day.

I was so not ready to come back to work on Monday. And judging by the shear amount of mistakes I've made this week (today I surveyed a segment east-to-west instead of from west-to-east simply because I never noticed that I was walking in the wrong direction. I didn't realize until I got back to the hotel and the property lines looked different on the Trimble than they did on the map. Thank God for the rain.