Merry X-mas (story delayed)

Merry X-mas everybody. My favorite x-mas story so far is this short one told to me by my friend Superpowered while he gave me my x-mas gift.

"I can't believe I'm giving a big asian jew, WHO'S AN ATHEIST, a bible FOR CHRISTMAS. ...And he wanted it!"

The bible in question was "The Jefferson Bible" and it was on my amazon wish list. I frankly had forgotten that I even had one.

In any case I'm not going to write the story I wanted to write for a couple reasons. First off it's christmas and even though I couldn't really give a damn about christmas it's still a holiday that people get together with friends and loved ones so I'll try to keep it as pleasant as possible. Secondly Her probably doesn't really want to read/hear it and had a trying day today so I'll spare her that. Thirdly, and this is mostly a combination of the first two reasons, it's christmas and I'm going to try to cheer up my baby and do my best to bring two sides together. What two sides and why do they need to be brought together? Well I'm not going to talk about it but I'll give you a hint. We're giving up and letting a certain mother in law have her way with everything and therefore taking no responsibility for the mess (or party) that may come; further enforcing that two certain people should have eloped from the beginning.

Ooops did I say that?

Anyways, on to bringing people together.

You may or may not know me but I'm sort of an atheist. To me that essentially means that I believe in the "abrahamic religions'" gods as much as I do the norse, egyptian and greek ones. And we all have our reasons why we believe in the things we do (or not). But tonight I don't want to talk about the different sides of the argument. I want to talk about what we would like from a god. Because whether or not we believe, there's no harm in writing a wish list for santa.

What I think that most people want from god is understanding. The idea that they are with us, see us and feel our plight, know our sorrows and be able to comfort us in times of need I feel is a consensus of one of people's needs and wants from god. If not that then at least love. A mothering love that saves us and provides us what we need in order to fulfill our dreams, or a stern one that disciplines us in order for us to grow. I believe we would all want a love that is there to want us to be happy and successful and will do anything for us to reach that goal whether we know it or not.

Well for those of us who have a god I hope you can agree with me on the wants that I listed. And for those who do not have a god I hope you are fortunate enough to be able to feel what love is. Because I want you understand me when I say that I love my fiancee, Her. And I want you to know the understanding she gives me every day. Through all my faults, all my mistakes, and all my hardships she is there for me, she feels me, and she comforts me; in my every time of need. More than that, she loves me. She loves me in that motherly way, the way that saves and the way that provides. When I need it, she'll also been the stern one, the one that will do what it takes so that we can grow.

I want you all to know that I love Her. You may not know us, but that's not the point. The point is that you understand how much I love her and that I'm pretty sure, she loves me too.

Turkey Day Recap and Chinese People are Crazy

Well Turkey day has come and gone and now Christmas is looming over our shoulder. Luckily we don't care cause we're Jewish and already finishing up Chanukkah. Still I felt a write up of our past thanksgiving was still in order.

This year's thanksgiving is my lowest count of turkey day meals I've had since I've started counting. I believe the number this year is 3. That's not to say it was a bad one or that I'm not as loved as all the previous years it's just that this year has been more adult than every other year. By that I mean I had a baby with me.

No, it wasn't a spawn of my own, "Seester" was in town with her hubby and child. I got to spend an entire Thanksgiving weekend with them and I was so happy to be able to. It's sad that I wasn't able to see a lot of other people but hopefully they'd understand that driving for an hour with an unhappy baby makes for a miserable time for everybody. So, sorry folks if I didn't get to see you this year for turkey and such but I'm blaming the baby and she's still a bit too cute for you to be mad at.

The person I do kind of feel sorry for though was Seester's hubby "Toddles." Why? Because he came down here, wasn't able to spend turkey day with any of his folks and was kind of thrown into "Chinese Family World." Now CFW can be like any ethnic family gathering; we're loud, we make you eat too much, we bicker then we make up. The only real differences are two things. We do this all in Chinese or broken english and we actually prefer that most people stay in the dark about it.

I would say more but then it wouldn't be very Chinese of me to do so. That and the writing of this has taken entirely too long and anything funny or any clever way to deliver my points across have been lost due to my very siv-like memory. So here are my points:

1) chinese people tend to group together and really don't give a damn if you feel like you belong or not. They just aren't that welcoming of other people and tend to be very happy to stay that way.

2) I have family now who's not very chinese at all and I feel sorry for them when they get thrown into CFW.

3) This is to show that I understand why it sucks. I don't know how much it sucks but I do know THAT is sucks. As of right now I don't have any solutions for the problem other than taking no part in the conversations and just sit there and play translator.

4) Oh I wanted to put up this link too to show that there's yet more evidence that show how much (not why) we are crazy.

5) I wanted to write this to get it out of the way because I REALLY wanted to write about recent developments on wedding planning. But that'll come later.