My favourite christmas memory is damn odd.
It was a few years ago, just after I had moved out of my folks house. Was working graveyard at the time, Midnight to 8am, and it was really hard to switch my sleep scheduale around, so I simply ended up staying awake all night, listening to the radio and baking banana bread.
It must have been about 2 or 3 in the morning, and one of the older djs was on the air of the local alternative rock station, Rodney on the Roq (radio station is
KROQ) and he started talking about one of the oddest christmas' he had ever had.
It turns out he had been doing this DJ thing for the military, about 10 or 15 years back, and had been stuck in this little apartment thing in the middle of Russia, I think. Where ever it was, it was damn cold, and there was nothing else around but snow, snow and more snow. They hadn't left him food or any thing to eat, saying that they were going to pick him up in a few hours.
They didn't.
So he'd been stuck in this little apartment cabin, with some heat, fortunately, but Nothing. To. Do.
He'd gotten so stark raving bored after about half a day that he'd suited up and wandered outside to look in the rubbish bin. There he'd found out that this had happened to another DJ before, only this DJ had taken the oppertunity to sit down and write down everything he had ever done in his life.
EVERYTHING.
Like a confession or something. Evidently, the guy was kinda kinky when it came to... uh, doing stuff in bed. Really kinky shyte. And, having nothing better to do, and feeling like he needed to go to a preist for a confessional afterwards, our DJ read it all.
A day and a half after they dropped him off, they finally remembered him, picked him up and fed him a good dinner and he DJ'ed their Christmas party.
... and a few years later, ran into the same guy who'd written all that stuff at a party in Paris. Talk about awkward.
But it was just really very cool. It was silent outside, not the normal kind of silent where if you just pause, you can hear the city noise buzz in the background, but silent silent. Twilite Zone quiet. Not even cars passing on the street. And it was dark all around except for the golden glow of the kitchen, and it was like nothing else exsisted except for this guy who was out there, by himself as well, telling a cherished memory to a close friend.
Anyway. That's my favourite Christmas memory. ^^;; Like I said, kinda odd.
And I should go to bed now, because we're getting up around 4 am to wrap presents, bake some cookies and then do my favourite/most cherished part of Christmas morning: walking to my folks house before anyone else is awake. *happy purr* But that is for another time.