Pros and cons of being home

Pretend this was posted on Dec. 28 *damn you spotty stolen internet connection, damn you*

Pros:
- Vastly increased food budget
- Run of mom's "much nicer than mine" kitchen to turn that increased budget into yummy, fat inducing goodness
- Massive numbers of christmas cookies
- Zero expenses
- Almost zero responsibilities
- Sleeping until 11 every day
- Hanging out with my brother
- Hanging out with my parents (yes, these are separate)
- Presents!

Cons:
- Nothing to do except hang out with family (parents moved to Illinois 2 years back, and I know exactly nobody who spends their holidays in Champaign)
- Having a greatly expanded food budget and free run of the kitchen so that my brother and I can eat like pigs and consume far more christmas cookies than is even remotely healthy... oh and the congregation seems to believe that the pastor's family is in danger of starvation due to insuficcient cookie intake, so several families dropped off additional supplies... I must have eaten over 200 cookies so far... this is only bad because I've gained 6 pounds in 8 days. *burp* Oi vay.
- Selective parental incompetence: yeah, sure they're both really smart people, but for some reason they are incapable of doing anything remotely technical, so they wait for me to come home. Sure I can understand why installing a dimmer switch might be a little beyond them, but how hard is it to hook up a stereo or print some pictures? Sheesh.
- That's pretty much it. I love my family and have had a great time over the holidays, but it'll be good to get back to DC.

And just because I feel like filling up more space, here's the grand list of this year's christmas gains:
- Lots of books that I will have no time to read, but love anyway
- Really comfy slippers
- Some new dress clothes, for all those upcoming job interviews *crosses fingers*
- Bunch of stuff that my little bro picked up for me in Asia, like a 2GB flashdrive and season 3 of the West Wing.

Oh look, more cookies!