It's nearly 2 in the morning. :o

I quite literally rolled out of bed, into the first (pretty) things I pulled out of my closet and tumbled into the car this morning in order to join my Mom, my brother Pio (the one getting married) and my Tito Lorrie and Tita Faye on a trip to Shangri-La for some last minute shopping and family bonding tiemz. Cue much Peralejo-Punzalan dorkiness, customary Ribbing the Soon-to-be Groom and walk walk walking all over the mall.

Spoils of holiday parental financial abuse include:

Topshop Clothes (YAY PINSTRIPES! YAY VEST! YAY GRAY PANTS!)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner - Raido Kuzunoha and the Soulless Army *insert Fangirl Shriek of Happiness Here*

Oh, and I ran into girl_blunder and my cousin xianu. Sorry, sweetie... I didn't have my and yukitsu's gift to j00! ;A;

Got hoem early enough to try out the game (I called my character Hikaru Shinta. ...Yeah, bite me.) before the Christmas Eve Mass which had a repetitive but otherwise decent homily and an unbearably slow Our Father song. Family loitered around in the living room afterward before we did the usual Advent Wreath prayer stuff. Then we got to attack the Potato Salad, pandesal and Christmas Ham.

I received a surprising number of gifts, and much love to all the people who gave them to me. Oh, and mom apparently bought me even more stuff before the Shangri-La trip just so that I'll have things to open. ...I love my Mom. .__.

Peralejo Christmas lunch tomorrow, with a whole bunch of relatives who haven't been back in the Philippines for years. It'll be a busy holiday season, I believe, but I have no regrets.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS, ALL. *BIG INTARWEBZ HUGS*