January 04, 2008 - X-mas Break - Dan Krill's BLOG on BinaryBedlam

X-mas Break
January 04, 2008 10:51:03 PM

     At first I was pretty sure I'd be spending xmas here in Nashville. As a new guy at work, I don't get squat for vacation days so I just planned to chill at my own place. As xmas was getting closer, though, I found that I really wanted to go home more and more. Luckily soon after I discovered a way I could get an extra day off, a Comp day. I got it for working on a sunday once! That gave me 3 days to use, a comp day, my 1 vacation day, and a floating holiday. With those, I was able to bridge the xmas break and the new years break thus giving me 11 days not at work.
     I flew home the last day of work. Went straight to the airport. Dad picked me up at the Baltimore airport with Brandon. The only thing that kind of sucked was that since I flew, I didn't have my car! Luckily I was able to borrow dad's and Brandon's a lot, but still, it would have been nice to have my own.
     I did all kinds of stuff, mostly visited people. I saw grandma, grandpa, Jason L & family, Megan's family, and even Kelly. We went out to a bar twice to see Tiff's dad play in his band, 'Broken Pieces'. He's pretty good. I'd have to admit, at first I thought going to these bars was going to suck, but her dad plays a really good selection of classic rock and he is really good, so my opinion was flipped.

     On xmas eve I went to church with mom as usual. Holly was in a play during the service, she was a 'present' to go under the 'xmas tree'. The play was too long, I'm amazed they even got all the kids to stand still that long. That night I did something I hadn't done in years, I slept at mom's house because she wanted me to wake up xmas day at her house. It was awful! For one, she put me in Holly's room, so I was self conscious of every sound I made from every move I made because I was on a noisy air mattress, her house is kept pretty cold, and her house is silent! Like, I can't sleep unless I have some kind of background noise, well, at moms, there is not a sound, so that disburbed me as well.
     Xmas day is certainly one I will not forget for quite some time. It never ceases to amaze me how there always has to be some complications, nothing can ever go smoothly or at least as expected. When I woke up, we went out to the tree and like normal, systematically started distributing and opening the gifts. Shortly after, Grandma showed up. Then a few minutes later, Brandon and Megan showed up. More gifts were opened. After assembling a very complicated shelf for mom, we had a very nice lunch. Up till about 12:30, I even noted just how well things were going. In an instant, the day went horribly wrong.
     Brandon called mom saying there was an accident. Mom heard the word blood and instantly flipped out. She went into her hysterical freak-out mode, and started screaming that we had to go! She was so upset and jittery, that I had to physically remove her from her own car's driver side, and put her into my car's passenger side. She was in no mental state to drive, and I was not about to let her drive for fear of her having another accident.
     When we got to the site of the accident, we found everyone to be ok, only a few minor injuries (scratches, bruises, etc). So right infront of my dad's house, there was a 3 car collision. Apparently, Don was making his gift-delivery rounds, went to pull into my driveway, and when crossing the center line, hit a car moving full speed in the on-coming lane. This impact forced the car off the road, threw dad's front yard, and just as fate would have it, into Brandon and Megan's car. Megan's car just happened to be pulling out of the exit side of our driveway when the incident occurred, hence the 3rd car. It was probably the worst accident that I ever saw in real life, but a lot of good came out of it. I don't know why Don was chosen as the messenger, but I'm sure he will get his reward some day. Brandon and Megan almost broke up the day before and now they are closer than ever, dad's near heart attack from all the commotion made him finally start dieting, if Megan's car wasn't in the driveway to absorb all the energy of the middle car, the 2 lady's would have drove head on into a tree! So this must have been a wake up call for them too. Theres just all kinds of crazy coincidences from this situation.

     After a few days, things started getting back to normal. Everyone got rental cars since all 3 cars were totaled. I went out with Don quite a bit to look at new cars. I Played Risk at Andrew's with his room mate Johnny, saw the movies Walk Hard and Idiocracy. They were both pretty funny.

     New Years Eve was a good time too. Emmy drove Me, Chris, and Tiff up to Philly to hang out at Hannah's and Shane's. I got to meet Hannah's b/f, Tyree when we all went out to eat. He's pretty cool. Seems like he has his head screwed on right, he'll keep Hannah in line ;-) During the ball-drop, I had Khine on the phone. Man that was rough. I wanted to be with her so bad. At least the phone connection didn't die, we were talking during the whole midnight celebration. After we got off the phone, I went to the bathroom, and thats when I did something stupid. I dropped Emmy's phone into the toilette! Luckily after a nights worth of drying, it worked again in the morning. PHEW!
     New Years Day included more work than I was ever expecting. Emmy wanted to make us a traditional dinner, pork, sauer kraut, mashed taters, and peas. Since Shane's kitchen wasn't exactly usable, though, we had to clean it up first. We figured, since he let us all crash there and bought so much beer, it was the least we could do. After 4 hours of laborious work, the kitchen was finally usable. Emmy made the dinner, we all enjoyed it, we then said our good byes, and we were off to York.

     When I got back, I cleaned up, went out to say my good byes personally to Don and Andrew, took a 1.5 hour nap, woke up dad, and we were off to the airport. 6am flew to Atlanta, 9:45 flew back to Nashville, then one of my co-workers picked me up and took me straight to work. Man! That was one long work day!

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