Chrono Trigger has been put on halt while Nick is working through Dead Space. Thankfully, my brother came through and brought me a copy of Spirit Tracks from America! I’m only at the second temple, but I am totally digging it so far.

I did some Christmas shopping today after work, but only got gifts for three people. Figuring out what to get for co-workers and bosses is tricky business. I considered getting them nothing and saying, “I would have got you gifts, but I am not paid enough.”

Tonight I did some digging through my family history. Aside from my mother’s sisters’ families, I know next to nothing. I guess seeing all those photographs that Elizabeth posts of her grandparents made me wonder about my own.

The only biological grandparent I know is my mother’s mother and I never knew anyone on my father’s side of the family. I did some poking around on the Internet and found out quite a bit of my genealogy. My great grandfather, a Polak, married my great grandmother, a Filipina, and had eight children, my father being the eldest. Considering I have seven aunts and uncles, I can safely assume I have quite a few cousins. Here is where Facebook blows my mind. I found about five of them as well as an aunt and an uncle. It is so weird seeing pictures of these people and thinking, hey, we are from the same ilk.