nova_myth | Its Christmas Part two!

Well, I went to my friend Patrick's house again. The Spurs won by one point in a buzzer shot at the end of the game, truely cool for a Spurs fan, bad for a Suns. I didn't watch most of the game, had christmas lunch that was pretty much the same as Christmas Eve dinner, yum. I read several chapters of my book, Brisinger (thrid and final book in the Eragon series). I had planned on finishing tonight but life had a different plan. My friend left for his Grandma's after five and I headed home. I found Kelly, the co-owner sitting on the curb drinking and smoking. I went to try to cheer her up, and ended up talking and soon our neighboor Jeff arrived home and came and joined us. We got talking and he went and got beer for Kelly and wine for me and we ended up talking for several hours, mainly on the trouble here but also on school, work, and the past of the neighborhood itself. Unlike a lot of neighborhoods, this one block hasn't changed much in the past some thirty years. Only a few homes have changed hands beyond family. I was gonna spend Christmas evening with my friend Ghazal, but her family, as usual, takes a while to make up their minds, and I decided to spend it with my neighbor and co-owner. I hadn't talked with Jeff in a long time. Most was our complaining about my housemate, but one thing about Jeff is he is a truely good person and a good listener. When Kelly talked about her past pets, mom, or anything that made her cry he was there with words of comfort, sorry the subject made her cry. Kelly needed the ranting more than me. But it was all good, really good. I did not know tomorrow was my co-owners birthday, and as a good person, he tried to offer her the money to get tickets to see CATS as a birthday gift. But she wouldn't have it, and she cried again. My housemate returned from a few hours with her family midway through our time outside talking and not apparently happy. I realized later when I got back to my room that she didn't have any presents for her. Kelly tried to be nice and wish her Merry Christmas but my housemate snubbed her infront of her family and the neighbors.

All the talking is why I don't think I'll finish my book tonight, the few hours I had planned to put a dent in it some more were spent out on the curb talking. It was good though, and I don't regret it, even if I had to turn down spending time with my best friend. Kelly needed some company, she had spent most if not all the day at the house. I'll probrably get a few more hours in reading, and tomorrow I'll read some more, but I plan to be done with it soon. I've been following this series for years.