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  • Yeah, so it is the end of christmas but um I just kind of wanted to recap on it because I haven't been home for about two years now, it went by so fast I just want to say, but I'm very happy to be home and it's been tough because I had pneumonia, a lot of people don't really know what pneumonia is and what it does to you.

  • There's some people that think like pneumonia is like a cold and then it'll go away in like a day, which blows my mind because that is never the case, pneumonia goes away after a week with antibiotic.

  • It takes about a couple more weeks for me to feel um energetic and stable again.

  • So I'm still coughing up stuff, I'm not contagious anymore, but I'm still coughing up the fluid that was collecting in my lungs.

  • So it's exhausting like every day and my body is tired, I'm not doing any exercise for the next couple of weeks.

  • Mona is a very common thing, um more common than you think a lot of people you can catch it, so you just have to be really careful.

  • So I bought these pills are called elderberry pills.

  • So I'm gonna start taking those because it helps your immune system for one.

  • And then I'm also going to be continuously taking a probiotic, which I ran out of them before I came but I was like I'm gonna wait till I come home because I want to get some good ones and all that stuff.

  • So now that I have them, I'm going to take those two pills, get lots of rest, drink more water I bought, I bought a Fitbit versa recently.

  • So for christmas, so I'm going to be really, really taking care of myself a little bit better, but it's not really about taking care of yourself.

  • You can still catch pneumonia like no matter what, like it doesn't matter like how good you take care of yourself, but it does help prevent it.

  • This christmas has been wonderful.

  • I got to see my family oh you can all over and then uh yeah, I'm so excited.

  • Yes, Well look at the table.

  • It looks nice, but it's not done yet.

  • All these gifts for me, christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom's side of the family.

  • My grandpa passed away a long time ago, not too long ago.

  • It was like got a couple of years ago maybe.

  • So it was like maybe the third year that he hasn't been with us the first time I went home, that was the first year that he wasn't with us.

  • So that was a little weird but time it was a little better.

  • Everybody was very happy.

  • We're listening to christmas music.

  • I love going to my grandma's, there's a lot of fun, nostalgic feelings when I go back there.

  • There's a lot of little things on the mantles and in the bedroom and the living room that I saw from my childhood and it just brought back a lot of good memories.

  • Hey guys, merry christmas Eve today is christmas Eve the 24th of december and we are going to my grandma's house and I'm ready.

  • I got dressed and I'm ready to eat amazing delicious food at my grandma's house.

  • Mhm.

  • Okay.

  • Hi uncle matt.

  • Hi, how are you people?

  • Yeah, I wanna, oh I miss you.

  • Oh you look so pretty.

  • Oh my goodness!

  • Oh my gosh, I love her dress, look at the jewels on her dress, that's so pretty, you look so handsome.

  • Oh my gosh, I know you've, this house has not changed so tall like oh gosh, merry christmas, he's so tall.

  • What the heck are you in high school now?

  • Oh my God, what happened?

  • Christmas Eve is probably the best day for food.

  • I really love it because my grandma makes german potato salad and german chocolate cake.

  • We have all sorts of things, salads, it's just, it's wonderful.

  • So I love that day.

  • I love going there.

  • It's just a small group of us.

  • Oh waiting now.

  • Oh these are clothes that you came.

  • Yeah, cute way all the hardware.

  • They didn't take too long time to do the wave hair.

  • Yeah, it took you a long time to do the hair, wavy hair.

  • I like the wave hair though, your hair is pretty.

  • Tell me again where they were spoken little things that chaos here, this is our chaotic christmas Eve, mom, you can't do it right, play games and we laugh a lot and I just, I just enjoy christmas eve.

  • I think the most out of those 22 days this year.

  • I just got money.

  • I didn't get a lot of gifts obviously because I'm in my late twenties now, so it's a little different.

  • But so we just finished eating and now we're going to eat, oh all of these cookies are the cookies cookies and we need the whole box and german, this is the german cake, german chocolate cake.

  • This is my favorite cake in the world.

  • Oh my goodness, I don't care about those.

  • Find move at heart.

  • Oh boy you are.

  • Yes.

  • Michigan state.

  • Yeah, go green.

  • That's awesome.

  • I went to michigan state a yeah, I think, I don't know, I want to hear and start suffering.

  • They are shine.

  • And then with what, what, what do you want to say to my german audience here, Freud Freud like nothing.

  • It sounds like a question.

  • Oh good.

  • A noise Yeah.

  • Oh my gosh, I remember this little bird too.

  • I think I made this.

  • Yeah, it's so cute.

  • Remember that in a little piece.

  • Oh my gosh honey, remember this teenage mutant ninja turtle won the Dorothy one.

  • Oh my gosh, I remember this one.

  • So that is the cutest thing ever.

  • Here we are.

  • Here we are.

  • You there?

  • Yeah, it's me and adam.

  • Yeah, Oh my God you are, That's what we were so cute.

  • Okay, got a twist me stretch me poke me, shake me or or dip me, why is it, why is it a sausage?

  • Why does it have to be a sausage sausage?

  • Oh it's not very long.

  • I think my family's lost it.

  • Why did you press this?

  • My twist american christmas with my dysfunctional family.

  • I love it.

  • You start your floor time talk me, just start let me hit me, hit me, let me, you catch me, ask me twister twist stretch tip them at the bottom of the bottom.

  • Yeah, there's, there's still wrapping paper up there.

  • My grandma got married, here's my mommy and my uncles a nice picture.

  • Mhm, mhm, mhm Yeah, well, I've never been in this place, I've never been in here is a real phone, wow, look at this, that isn't does it work?

  • Oh my God, get on a normal table.

  • Oh my God, it works.

  • Yeah.

  • Mhm, mm hmm.

  • Yeah.

  • Well one hand, no, shoot, look at you.

  • Nice to watch.

  • Used to open this and called down to my grandparents because this was like a shoot that goes down to the laundry room in the basement christmas day, my dad's side of the family comes and my mom's side of the family to families and then we have it at our house and I like christmas day as well because I get to see, you know my whole entire family, which is awesome, I do have a twin brother by the way, but he didn't come uh for for certain purposes, which I won't get into.

  • I miss him a lot and I will be seeing him during the week.

  • So I get to see my little cousins and we play games on that day as well.

  • We open gifts, eat a big dinner.

  • Everybody brings a dish to eat and some dessert and all that stuff.

  • So hey guys, it is day two of christmas, it's christmas day and today everybody is coming to my house.

  • So some of the same family from yesterday and some of my dad's side of the family you didn't see hey, but it was on this cold december day.

  • We are on our merry way, riding along, just singing a song barrelling through the snow.

  • Well we also like to play some video games in the basement, which is awesome.

  • I got to catch up with my family.

  • They opened some gifts.

  • Um today it was like the first day that I was able to open anything.

  • I haven't opened anything.

  • I actually like, I enjoy opening gifts.

  • So go wherever I go.

  • Yeah.

  • Where's mason?

  • He's up there.

  • He's upstairs.

  • Yeah.

  • What's he doing?

  • What flavor is it?

  • Strawberry, strawberry all words ever go.

  • Mhm Shervin Prancer.

  • Yeah.

  • Okay.

  • We just play super smash brothers and I won.

  • He said you saw it?

  • You witnessed it.

  • Yeah, Joey lost.

  • Yeah, he like had 55.

  • These are my cousins say hi hi, we have to go upstairs because you know what, because we have to play a game and they're yelling at us.

  • Dinner was very good.

  • Everybody had a good time and we played this game, it's called left center, right.

  • So basically we roll the dice and you have to put your quarters in the center, pass it to the right or pass it to the left and the person that has coins remaining at the end and nobody else does is the winner.

  • So that was a really fun game.

  • Yeah.

  • On this cold december day, on this cold december day.

  • Mhm Down Yeah.

  • Yeah.

  • Wait, wait, wait a picture of time.

  • Mom has to get all her pictures, we have to get all the pictures with my aunt Sandy way, so tired and I'm obviously short of breath because of pneumonia so I'm gonna wash up and I'm going to get ready for bed and I hope you guys enjoyed seeing this video and some clips of my christmas, what's your christmas like back home where you're from?

  • I'd love to hear about your christmas from around the world.

  • They have a lot of friends in Japan from different countries and I loved hearing about what they do for christmas so I'd love to hear more about that.

  • My mom's side is very german, so we have a little a few german traditions.

  • I hope you guys enjoyed this video and next year I'm probably going to be in Japan for christmas because my boyfriend is going to be in Japan and he said he's looking forward to having an actual japanese um, christmas, which will be very interesting and I'll have to show you how we celebrate their first here.

  • So yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed that and I will see you guys in the next video bagi about, I can't up today.

  • Leave these all thanks.

  • No gets no somewhere.

  • Yeah.

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