I’m running on three hours of sleep right now — we ran out to Ikea and Mitsuwa last night and didn’t get home and to bed until nearly 1am, and I was up at 4am to go pick my mom up and drive her to O’Hare airport. When I got home from the airport I noticed the Wii’s light was on (indicating a new message) so I turned it on and checked the mail.

We had a message that the trial version of the Wii internet browser was available. So of course I downloaded it and tested it out.

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Today I went out to get the mail to find a package on my porch from Kelsey (well, I found two actually, but the one was the last gift for Justin that I was expecting). She had requested my address so I knew something was coming, but I really wasn’t expecting all of this:

I had the dumbest grin on my face when I was opening the package — it seriously made my day week. Especially now that I no longer have a job five minutes away from Mitsuwa and haven’t had a chance to go shopping for sweets.

So thank you Kelsey… I definitely need to take you out to dinner the next time I’m in your neck of the woods.

I just went out running errands wearing jeans, a sweater and my Chucks without socks, and was quite comfortable.

It’s less than a week until Christmas.

In Chicago.

The fourth and final old movie; this one is from September 14, 1961.

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Time for more old home movies that were transferred off of 8mm reels. This is the third reel, dated June 26th, 1961. This was filmed nearly a whole year after the previous video. My mom is only in the last ten seconds of this one, and my aunt and uncle are the little ones.

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Here’s the second of four old home movies that recently came into my possesion. This one is dated July 29th, 1960. For reference, my mom is the girl in the white sailor-type short outfit, my aunt is the toddler running around, my grandma is pregnant with my uncle, and my grandpa is the chef.

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