*Tears head off in overwhelmedness*

Hoooooooooooo boy, today was CRAZY. We had AAAAAALLLLL of our family over today. This annual gathering started off with 12:00 mass, at which I had to sing, and my family carried up the gifts to communion (I have no idea if this is just a Catholic thing or not, but I really don't fell like explaining Catholic masses...). Clara ended up not having anything to carry, so she started screaming in the middle of the church, in front of all creation. I observed all of this from the choir balcony at church, all the while trying not to yell down at her to stop crying. Well, after that little fiasco we went home and our relatives all came up from Kentucky. Every year my cousin James and I are expected to write a Christmas-y play for the littler kids to perform, and this year's was "The mystery of the stolen star". It was a freaking nightmare to organize, with a lot of fighting over costumes and not liking parts and forgetting lines and hitting people with frozen waffles and jumping on couches my brother endlessly pounding away on the drum set. Much fun, 'twas not. Though, some high points included my brother Henry in drag, playing the part of Paris Hilton, the inclusion of the line "Why so serious?" (I'm finally supposed to see The Dark Knight tomorrow, and I'm psyched!), and dancing fairies/goons. We finally got it all together and pulled it off, like we do every year, with no shortage of yelling and flinging of Nerf balls at non-compliant children. By the end of it all I was ready to tear my own head off, as well as some other people's. Though, admittedly, it was better than last year's, which was something along the lines of "A Very Chuck Norris-y Christmas On A Desert Island". I come up with strange and vaguely frightening ideas under pressure. So yeah...then we all ate cake, because it also happens to be my brother William's 9th birthday (Happy Birthday, dude!), and watched "2008: year in review" which is a photo slide-show that my aunt Meeb puts together every year. It had some pretty snazzy pictures of yours truly fighting with goats, I must say. Everyone kind of trickled out around eight, so now I can finally have some peace and quiet. Well, as peaceful and quiet as it can get with a family of 10... O_o
I'm supposed to get some pictures of all of this from Meeb, so I'll be posting those shortly.
Lah dee dah.. I think I'll go now. I have a biology final in 2 days, and I should probably study some more... unless Altair wants to tell me what's on the test? Hee just kidding. I think.