Of all the Christmas photos we have taken, this one is clearly the most important.
This year, my family is celebrating Christmas Jewish-style, complete with spurning a real tree, eating at a Chinese restaurant for Christmas dinner, and opening our presents whenever we feel like it/manage to rouse dad from epic after-work naps in the big recliner.
Yesterday, December 28th, was one of those times, so we opened a few gifts. I should preface this by saying that some of the presents under our tree were objects that my dad had simply taken from around the house and wrapped in wrapping paper.
Hence my sister’s gift: Two DVDs that we have owned for a few years already, embellished with his special brand of quirky genius and off-kilter English:
“For Sunmee (her Korean name) from the Space”
“2001 Odyssey of the mind The dawn of her intelligence”
“2010 Sunmee graduate MIT!”
Meanwhile, my dad gave me Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket. Freud came over later and told me that this means my silly narcoleptic father thinks my sister is an MIT genius who descended from space like a god-alien and that I’m a crazy violent fighter dude with forest eyebrows. Not to mention that my mother asked to be gifted underwear from her children because that’s some sort of Korean tradition (hello, Emperor Kim, originator of awkward Korean traditions, that is totally awkward).
Basically, my fambily is just perfect.
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