Vincent Brown’s Journal and Photography

Christmas 2004

Christmas 2004 has come and is now on its way out the door. I must say though, it has been a joyful experience this year. I handled myself more casually than I have in the past, dressed in a nice pair of Enyce jeans and an Akademiks button up shirt with my white/nubuck colored Lugz shoes. I felt comfortable, and that was the most important thing to me. As usual, we made our rounds to friends and family before settling down back at home for the night.

My grandfather spent the night Friday, I don’t see him as often as I probably need or to so having him over was great. We watched Man on Fire Friday night while devouring a bucket of KFC extra crispy chicken, mmm. The jokes end there.

Christmas morning was pretty uneventful, woke up, had coffee and donuts with my mom and grandfather around our faux christmas tree. We did the whole gift thing, I didn’t ask for anything nor do I need anything. But, the underlying hint is, when I tell people not to buy me anything is to get gift certificates or money. My mom was extremely generous and got me;

an $80 gift card for Pepboys (my car needs a lot of maintenance)
$30 worth of credit @ Dunkin Donuts
an $80 gift card to Strawbridges (I’ll probably get a nice jacket with it)
a great set of pajamas
random stocking stuffer items (tire pressure gauge, candy, air freshener, deodorant (needed some), silly putty)

A little less financially stable, but thoughtful and a tad humorous, I picked up some novelty items for my mom including;

a t-shirt from TShirtHell.com that says “O - Oprah never gave me shit!”
a book from RoadRageCards.com

After the morning ritual, we traveled to my Uncle Charles’ home in Blackwood, NJ where we had breakfast and talked. My grandfather came along and we met up with my Aunt Mary and Uncle Leon which was cool, haven’t seen them in FOREVER.

We left there and had dinner at my Cousin Don’s new home in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia. It’s a great building he restored from a historic fire house into a multi-unit building. His unit is the best by far. Several floors, basement, high ceilings, roof-top access with jacuzzi. I was impressed with the multi-amp, music server array in his basement storage room. It provides rich sound to every room in his unit.

Pictures; provide imagery of my Christmas experience courtesy of Flickr

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