I fail at updating this on time. >_>

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D'oh. I was supposed to post this first thing in the morning, but I woke up at 6:30 AM and decided to pack in some Persona 4 time instead. I've been playing that game for pretty much the whole day, excluding meal time, family time and mass. aldkh;dhgasdgh WHY SO AWESOME, ATLUS.

Right! So! Life updates! This Christmas break has been as busy as the one I had just last year... it might even be busier. @_@

PRIOR TO THE 23RD: IT'S ALL A BLUR catching up on shenanigans, family stuff doing the chocolate buffet thing at the Manila Pen with yukitsu and kye_kestrel and generally relaxing!

December 23: Persona 4 times, Serious Business cramming and a Christmas date at Inyo with khursten and yukitsu in the evening! ♥♥♥ I have missed the food there!

December 24 & 25: WRITING AND POSTING FANFICTION AS IF I WERE TO DIE -- I posted everything on this entry, in case you missed out. Oh, and then I had more family stuff! And more Persona 4. orz CAN YOU SEE THE PATTERN SO FAR?

December 26-27: Road trip to Bantangas, where my clan and I stayed at a beach house overlooking Taal lake (thank you very much to you and your family, omnicresence!). Here, have some bullet points~

• I was totally wasted on the way there. LACK OF SLEEP DUE TO, IDK, PERSONA 4?
  
• The beach house is so pretty. *A* It's P2,000 per person per night there, and the site is lovely and there's a whole lot of space! They can also help arrange for boatmen and tour thingies for you, which makes things so much more convenient if it's your first time in the area. ALSO: THEY HAVE WATER RESISTANT TABLE CLOTHS. JP, Jonat, Raya and I had a hay day pouring stuff over them and watching the droplets turn into little globes on the surface!
  
• Cousins brought over board games, the Wii and JP's Super Laptop. Cue Left for Dead (Paolo, Peter and Pio are all hooked now). Cue Last Night on Earth. Cue Pio making Dad a Mii that really looks exactly like Dad + playing rounds upon rounds of Wii tennis against his wife. XD
  
• More Dad dorkiness: I caught up trying out Raya's jump rope.
  
• asdlgkhl;ashdghdsg I have apparently missed swimming a lot.
  
• Everyone stayed downstairs till late cept for Raya and I, so we ended up getting the best spots in the common room - she got a nice corner, and I got the only real bed in the place they set aside for the kids. ANYWAY, I woke up in the middle of the night to my brother Pio and Peter coming in. Their exchange went something like: "...Is that Pam on the bed?" "Yep. Figures." "She's smart!" "--Smart and ruthless." I replied with something nice and fluffy: "Shut up, you assholes, I can hear you."
  
• Took a boat ride across the lake first thing in the morning~ got splashed a bit, but that was nothing compared to what happened after. ANYWAY, we were supposed to ride horses up to the ridge of the volcano, but I opted to walk with my cousins. It was a long hike and it was hella tiring, but the scenery and bonding time totally made up for it! X3
  
• Boat ride back = better than fucking Log Jam. WAS SOAKED DOWN TO MY UNDERWEAR BUT IT WAS FUCKING GLORIOUS.
  
• Crashed once I got home. Sorta. ...Damn you, Persona 4. >_>
  

That pretty much wraps things up for the moment. I spent all of today cooped up at the house since Dad didn't want me going out to join the group over at the boss' house - I'll be seeing the tomorrow and sleeping over there until the 30th, though, so I suppose that's all right.

--Now to pop some more Ferrero Rocher and see if I can actually finish that Zombie Apocalypse excerpt for Bloodsport before I go to bed.