family time...

so today my mom and brother got here... they flew many hours across many miles to come visit me before christmas... my life has been kind of (and when i say kind of, i mean really) busy lately with the end of school and the paper going to press on friday... but it's so good to have family here... surreal but nice... (movie quote - 500 points)

after i picked up my mom and brother from the airport, i took them to the hotel and then i had to go back to work. after work, i came back and picked them up and we went out driving around... i took them to see different random things around town... you know... "that" tour... "that is where i used to work... that is my favorite target... oh... there's a starbucks... oh... there's another starbucks... oh... and there's the 24-hour starbucks..." the exciting world of vancouver, wa!

we were going to go to this deli i've been wanting to try out, but it was closed, so we landed at red robin... my favorite...

so we're sitting there... we've finished eating... and all of a sudden i find myself singing to the annoying christmas music... mariah carey singing, "all i want for christmas is you..." sad... i know... but i'm in my own little world singing the words with specific facial expressions, and i glance over, and my brother, in his own little world is singing the words with the same facial expressions... and i thought, "yes... he is my brother..."

and i find comfort in that... i love that a movie quote popped in my head, i blurt it out and he goes crazy because he KNOWS he knows it... and once he figures it out, he feels satisfaction... (yes, i'll post the quote for points at the bottom... just remind me...) i love that his phone rings the theme song for diff'rent strokes and we both know every word... this past weekend i called my brother's cell phone (i just realized today he has cingular and i have at&t and now that they've merged, we can talk all the time... even in the middle of the day for free - unlimited mobile to mobile minutes, baby!) anyway... back to the story... i call his phone on sunday and one of his friends answers and starts harassing me... and i ended up talking to him and then one of his other friends... when they handed the phone to my brother, they said, "she's definitely your sister!" - how cool is that...

or maybe scary...

regardless... i'm really looking forward to hanging out with my mom and brother the next few days... time is precious... they leave to go back to arkansas on tuesday... so i'm going to try and make the absolute most of their trip... my life is not that exciting... so i'm trying to be cool and not boring for them!

but right now i should totally get some sleep... i'm exhausted and the alarm is going to go off pretty early in the morning... followed by a long day of work...

but here's the quote as promised...

"i'm not a police man, i'm a princess."

500 points... even though, since my brother already got it, he technically gets the points... but he never reads my blog (jerk), so he wouldn't get them here... so they're up for grabs!!! and also the 500 from the quote earlier in the post...

and now... well, i'm going to bedfordshire... (and yet, another quote... 500 more points...)