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Matt did an excellent job of summing up our trip to Watertown<\/a> (and many other Christmas celebrations) already. It’s not that I was waiting for him to do the hard work, really, it just took me two days to edit all the photos<\/a>. I may already be regretting my resolution to take more pictures. (Some of them were really worth it, though; I just ordered 80 prints from Flickr.)<\/p>\n I have but a few things to add.<\/p>\n 1) The Chuck Norris<\/strong>:<\/p>\n 1 shot cherry Dr McGillicuddy<\/a>…<\/p>\n Dropped into a glass of Liquid Ice<\/a> (you must say this in the monster truck announcer’s voice)<\/p>\n Enjoy, for it is delicious. Whatever you do, do not have another. It is, in fact, a roundhouse kick of booze.<\/p>\n We bought a can of Liquid Ice for our friends back home to enjoy. I think it can only be found at one convenience store in the entirety of the midwest, but I haven’t actually searched that hard.<\/p>\n 2) I’m terrified of the middle of nowhere. I’m totally not kidding about that. Like, driving into South Dakota: I crossed the state line just as it got dark. The road was shiny, and I couldn’t tell if that was ice or not, but it sure felt like it. I slowed down to about 25mph, to the chagrin of all the pickup trucks behind me. The only reason I wasn’t crying was that it would’ve impeded my visibility even more than the snow drifting across the road. I was shaking when I finally arrived at his parents’ house.<\/p>\n Also, farms. How can people live on farms? Murderers and farm animals hang out at farms, and nobody can hear you scream when they team up to kill you. I like lights and traffic and the sound of people out doing normal people things.<\/p>\n 3) I can’t decide if South Dakota or Wisconsin bars are better. I’ve never seen Johnnie Walker Black for $3.75 in Wisconsin, so that’s about a hundred points in Sodakia’s favor.<\/p>\n 4) I need to count the number of times I’ve played blackjack in my life, because so far I’m on a ridiculous streak. The only time I’ve ever lost money was that time with Robert Milligan breaking all six of us in Vegas, and that was pretty much worth it.<\/p>\n 5) Four days spent with parents should never be that fun. We had a ridiculously awesome time.<\/p>\n Last night, we cleaned the house like crazy, put all the Christmas gifts away (the tree stays up til January, of course), and watched American Gangster<\/em>. I liked it a lot, though I was not at all convinced that they’d gotten the main characters’ sympathies right until the very end. 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\n…in bed.<\/em><\/p>\n