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And so this is Christmas...
Dec. 26th, 2020 09:08 amSo, for reasons that escape most people, the Government declared that people could meet up for Christmas - but only on Christmas Day. Er... What difference was it going to make meeting up Thursday, Friday or any other fucking day? Seriously?! So, we stuck to our original plan of Christmas Eve. My mother and stepfather don't drive, so they'd have had to get a taxi at an exorbitant rate, and daughter & co wanted to have 'their' Christmas. And the logistics of everyone having Christmas at home and then coming here - or us going there - just made our heads spin. So, sod you, Boris! This is the first time I've actively broken the 'rules', btw, and most of the time I behave as if I was living in Tier 4, so I feel justified.
We had a nice afternoon and having the table in the living room seemed to work because more food got eaten than it usually does. The daughter's dog gave everyone something to talk about when there was nothing else. We'd found a fireplace-with-festive-music video on YouTube and had that playing all day, and the dog curled up in front of the 'fire' and dozed just as if it was a real one. It was the cutest thing and absolutely made my Christmas <3
I've asked people for money rather than gifts for the foreseeable, so I can save up for a PS5 - and I've already made about 1/4 of the money! I'm in no rush to buy it because a) I'm waiting for Horizon Forbidden West to come out and b) new consoles are notoriously buggy and I don't want to deal with all that. So, by the time I have enough money, hopefully HFW will be out AND there'll be a couple of hours worth of patches to download :D This is the Plan, anyway.
My mother and stepfather's infamous randomness with presents hit a new high this year. Husband and son got a DVD and book about the 2019/20 season respectively - which will be enjoyed immensely. Daughter's fiance (an Evertonian, poor lad) got... a Newcastle United mug... But the husband and I are both sure we heard them talking about getting him something from the Everton shop, so we think they may have actually mixed things up. The grandson got a t-shirt - an exact copy of one they gave him for his birthday. And I got a cheap diary, that I'll never use. They also gave everyone a tenner - including me - so I think they've forgotten about my request for cash for my console. I actually don't know what they got the daughter... Oh, and they got daughter and fiance some ugly little ornament thing for their engagement present...
Yeah - Random Parents Are Random :D
I've found myself oddly tearful about the religious side of things, this year. Reading about Mary and Elizabeth, two women who trusted God so completely, reading Isaiah for my 'condensed Bible' practice (which just happens to be going through all the 'prophecies about the Messiah' - completely coincidentally), and even some of the Christmas hymns we had during our Zoom service yesterday - suddenly I find myself welling up. But I haven't felt in a place where I could really let the tears flow, yet, let alone examine WHY I'm feeling like that in the first place. My Tarot practice tomorrow may have insights.
This week, I'm planning on doing as little as possible, although I do have washing to do today, and I want to make stock with the turkey bones - and possibly curry with the left over meat. But that's me done for now. See you next week, DW!
We had a nice afternoon and having the table in the living room seemed to work because more food got eaten than it usually does. The daughter's dog gave everyone something to talk about when there was nothing else. We'd found a fireplace-with-festive-music video on YouTube and had that playing all day, and the dog curled up in front of the 'fire' and dozed just as if it was a real one. It was the cutest thing and absolutely made my Christmas <3
I've asked people for money rather than gifts for the foreseeable, so I can save up for a PS5 - and I've already made about 1/4 of the money! I'm in no rush to buy it because a) I'm waiting for Horizon Forbidden West to come out and b) new consoles are notoriously buggy and I don't want to deal with all that. So, by the time I have enough money, hopefully HFW will be out AND there'll be a couple of hours worth of patches to download :D This is the Plan, anyway.
My mother and stepfather's infamous randomness with presents hit a new high this year. Husband and son got a DVD and book about the 2019/20 season respectively - which will be enjoyed immensely. Daughter's fiance (an Evertonian, poor lad) got... a Newcastle United mug... But the husband and I are both sure we heard them talking about getting him something from the Everton shop, so we think they may have actually mixed things up. The grandson got a t-shirt - an exact copy of one they gave him for his birthday. And I got a cheap diary, that I'll never use. They also gave everyone a tenner - including me - so I think they've forgotten about my request for cash for my console. I actually don't know what they got the daughter... Oh, and they got daughter and fiance some ugly little ornament thing for their engagement present...
Yeah - Random Parents Are Random :D
I've found myself oddly tearful about the religious side of things, this year. Reading about Mary and Elizabeth, two women who trusted God so completely, reading Isaiah for my 'condensed Bible' practice (which just happens to be going through all the 'prophecies about the Messiah' - completely coincidentally), and even some of the Christmas hymns we had during our Zoom service yesterday - suddenly I find myself welling up. But I haven't felt in a place where I could really let the tears flow, yet, let alone examine WHY I'm feeling like that in the first place. My Tarot practice tomorrow may have insights.
This week, I'm planning on doing as little as possible, although I do have washing to do today, and I want to make stock with the turkey bones - and possibly curry with the left over meat. But that's me done for now. See you next week, DW!
