The dysfunctional relatives have left. One of my cousins proved he had not changed from the grubby eat beast he was in the intervening span of four months since we had last seen him, and their beagle is a very...... "innovative" gift giver. I went to the Pats/Dolphins game the other day with my dad, one of the three logical relatives who were here (my uncle), and his son, the aforementioned troublemaker. It was fun watching the Dolphins get canned with the tuna, but the cousin is a braggart, bully, and a tad sociopathic. He could not stop bragging about his knowledge of Israel, Hebrew, the Cleveland Browns (the relatives were visiting from Ohio), and various other things, especially on the way to and from the game. He bullies his little brother a lot. His little brother is pretty hyperactive, and likes sports, and my mom and I theorize that it may be his way of getting back at his brother, because he does seem to be tired of being little and picked on. I wish I'd gotten to spend more time with my grandfather, particularly since I'm worried about his short-term memory problems. However, it was nice to see one of my cousins, the oldest one visiting, again, coz she lives very far from where my family usually visits in Ohio, and so we hardly ever see her.

On the bright side, I gots me a cell phone! But more importantly, two DC Elseworlds publications: Superman: Red Son and Gotham By Gaslight. Woot!

And I saw a friend of mine yesterday. He came over with his sister (who is a friend of my sister) and we played Mario Party 8, watched The Simpsons Movie (he brought it over), and we watched some Mythbusters episodes, plus we did some general hanging out.

And then my dad and I met with my dad's friend and his son (who is about my age), and we had a nice meal, chatted, went to a Barnes and Nobles, chatted some more, and then we said goodbye. We'll be seeing them again on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend. It'll be fun.