Category Archives: The Funny Thing About Family Is That You'll Always Be Related

by kellyanncarroll | December 26, 2011 · 4:26 pm

So This is Christmas…

If anything, Christmas is all about love, family and a family’s love of beating each other into the ground in games of friendly competition. So when someone gets a Wii for Christmas, and that Wii package includes Just Dance 3, it’s only a matter of time until all hell breaks loose. I ate a lot yesterday, but it didn’t matter because I sweated most of it off through my Ugly Sweater/Turtleneck set. It wasn’t a cute look.

Also not a cute look? Get a load of the video above. We’re white Irishmen. This is how we dance.

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Ancestry.com Hands Me My First Christmas Present

I’m a journalist by nature, so sometimes during the work day I have to take the time researching the internet for things that I’m curious about. This could be anything from the dynamics of the military demarcation zone between North and South Korea to divorce proceedings between Kelsey and Camille Grammer. My mind is never at rest and my curiosity knows no bounds.

So a few weeks ago I got to thinking about family trees. There was a good point in time where I was an Ancestry.com fanatic, because I go through stages and most of them are weird. Have you ever been on Ancestry.com? There’s so much information! And all you have to do is put in people’s names! Ok, settle down. I’m getting ahead of myself.

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You Can Go Home Again, Especially if You Have to

Because I know everyone is at the edge of their seats wondering when I’m going to move out of my parents’ house, how my relationship with my parents is enduring our roommate situation, etc., I wanted to let you all know that, just in time for the holidays, my parents have finally let me move back into my old bedroom. It’s a Christmas miracle!

It only took two sinus infections and the guest room exploding out into the hallway for my parents to realize that the dungeon-like conditions they had subjected me to were unfair and unreasonable. Also, I think they realized their evil plan of getting me to move out in a short amount of time was not working. At. All.

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