I'm sure around this time of year almost everyone is excited to see what they got under the tree. For me, Christmas isn't really like that anymore. I don't expect to see a Dunlop crybaby pedal or a brand new Ipod touch. All I expect is to have fun with family and friends and even though that does sound corny it's true. Looking back I do have a lot of great Christmas memories that I would love to share with you (both for gifts and friends), but before I do one thing I want you all to remember is to never take your friends or your family for granted cause without them, you'd have no one to share anything with.
Anyways, looking back as far as I can remember when it comes to Christmas I can see my fourth Christmas ever. The only thing I can remember unwrapping from under the tree was a small 16:9 Dodge Viper model car. I remember my dad told me he'd get me a viper for Christmas and technically he did. -.-.
After that the next big Christmas I can recall is the year Zelda: Majora's Mask came out. That year I have so many memories with the days after Christmas it's ridiculous. You see on Christmas morning when I woke up. My grandmother had this huge chest in the living room. One I didn't even notice till I was done opening up all my other gifts. When I finally got a chance to open it inside was The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (My Personal Favorite), The Loz:MM player's guide, the N64 Expansion pack and Driver 2. Earlier, my dad had also purchased me Prozzak's newest CD: Saturday People and I was addicted to it only moments after. So for the next few days all I can remember was playing Majora's Mask, listening to Prozzak and talking to my best friend Jeremy on the phone. Meanwhile my dad was outside building me a fort so that when I was done playing I could go outside and pretend to be Link in a all sorts of adventures.
I absolutely used to love Christmas. It was my favorite time of year. More recent Christmas's have really sucked though. Last year a girl I believed I was in love with broke my heart and left me for dead, and every year since we moved out I always seem to get less and less, but then again- That's not what it's about. I can remember, I believe it was almost two or three years ago now, but it was one of the best Christmas' I ever had. I met someone, someone who I consider to be a very good friend even though we don't hang out that much anymore. At first I had a huge crush on her, but now and for a good while now, I realize that a friendship with her has always been worth much more than anything else that could have ever happened. Amanda Coneen was working at a store in the same mall as me and even though my buddy Jeremy had known her for a while, we had just recently met. During the christmas parade we both had to work, but instead of just sitting around and doing nothing at break, we both went down to Tim Hortons (A coffee shop) and had a quick bite to eat. I remember, Ashley (my-ex) and her aunt was there too and I had a great time talking about all sorts of random things. That year, I don't even remember what I got for Christmas from anyone. I just remember sitting in that Tims having a great time eating my BLT, and while it was nothing overly special, or at least nothing you couldn't simply do with any of your closest friends it meant a lot to me and still does even now. I guess that's what Christmas is about is having fun with friends and family and a lot of collector's like myself tend to forget that. Sure, having the next new greatest game is good too, but all I really want is more times like that.
So there you have it, that pretty much covers most of my Christmas memories. I'm sure there's hundreds of family meals and yada yada that I left out, but those were the ones that meant most to me. Oh yea, and there was this one new years party up at my Aunts where I met my step-cousin Jessie. Her and I had tons of fun fooling around with the dogs and cats there. It was great, and I was like 12, but anyway. I wish you all a merry Christmas and feel free to tell me about your memories in the comments below.
That was a good day, I remember you were trying to get me to buy a ps3 so bad aha.
ReplyDeleteChristmas's haven't been overly special to me in the past few years either. Once you get to be the age where you can't really expect (or don't want to ask in my case) to get really nice things because you can buy them yourself. I remember last year and the year I got my bass, I ended up paying for most of my main gift because I didn't want my parents to spend that much money and I still wanted the little gifts that they think up.
I completely avoided that this year, just asked for little things and I got them some really good presents. I'm really just looking forward to a few days off with my family and friends.
My beesstt christmases though, were my 4th, when I got my first guitar. It was just one of those cheap little toy classical one;s you used to be able to get at toy's r us. But I loved it to death.
The next would have to be my 12th christmas when I got my first electric guitar. I had pointed one out at la guitar once saying that I might like to upgrade from classical. Christmas morning I get to the lsat bag, and it's just, a bag of metal pieces. I pull them out and I can';t for the life of me figure out what it is. So I start fitting pieces together, and when it's all done, I look at it, and the first thing I say is "where is it" They point downwards and I make a beeline for the basement, rummage through everything till I see a huge box. I rush it back upstairs, and there she is, my first, very crappy, be cherished beyond all else, renegade Strat knockoff electric guitar.
I played it religiously.
So there's some christmas highlights. It's weird how I tend to get depressed around christmas (something about the time of year and lack of sun) but I still get so damn excited for it, even this year
amanda
hehe i used to have a crush on amanda c too
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