monkey nonsense

so my parents are like little kids and every year, my mom wants to open presents 18291 days before christmas. this year, my dad called me at work and was asking me when i was coming home so we could open presents early. they used the lame excuse that we were having guests stay over with us thus we needed to open presents before they arrived christmas eve. sure…

so i was sad to find out tuesday of this week that my parents’ gift (a roomba!) was not going to be shipped before christmas. boo home depot, with no inventory control, allowed everyone to order the roomba on sale (thanks slick deals!) even though they had long run out of stock. i was pleasantly surprised to receive a shipping confirmation on thursday! but i figured it might not arrive in time since it shipped so late. after calling up home depot (because they charged me incorrectly after all this, grrr), they ended up giving me the tracking number and seems my package actually shipped 2 days earlier and was due to arrive on friday! yay!!

friday at work i was constantly refreshing the fedex tracking number, hoping to leave work whenever the package arrived. in the afternoon, i called fedex three time! the first time they said their trucks would be out until 7-8pm tonight just to try to get packages out. the second time they said they were also making deliveries saturday. the third time, the lady said she thought it would come saturday for me though she had no updated information to go off of other than the scan they had in hagerstown, md the night before. i was all sad i had contemplated waiting for the package to arrive up til 7-8 pm (could’ve grabbed dinner with jason at the end of his long drive home!) but finally decided that it might not even come friday so i called my parents and told them i was coming home but their present would’ve arrive until saturday and i’d have to make a run to my apartment before we went to the mei’s house to celebrate.

so after rushing home early from work, packing and loading up the car with the rest of the presents, i was making one last check of everything (oops, forgot my camera)… when the fedex truck pulls up! YAY!!! got the package and wrapped it (in it’s shipping box!) really quickly and left. even better news?! at the peak of normal rush hour (by this time it was 5pm), i got home in 45 minutes!! wow! that’s how long it takes when i drive home in the middle of the night on a weekend! YAY! great commute!

i was all excited that all the presents were here that i didn’t mind (and even wanted) opening presents early! ehhehehehe, i got all excited for my parents’ reaction. my mom was feeling and shaking the packages as i was bring them in and she kept guessing she got 24 (since that’s what i got my parents last year for christmas and for father’s day and my mom’s birthday)… haha, i think she was even slightly disappointed she didn’t get 24. apparently, she’d been telling all her friends she was sure she was going to get it and that they could borrow it after she finished watching.

i think she liked the friends DVDs though and then when she found out how much they were (it’s a family thing, we tell the price of presents when they’re good deals… heck, my parents don’t even bother removing price tags to presents they are particularly proud of… yea, we’re cheap), i think she was happy

and my sister was kissing DVD boxes because of dean cain and wong fei hong

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