2011-12-24, 09:26 PM
I suppose my gift to my loved ones is the time I spend with them; they see it that way as well so it works out in our benefit. Besides that, with the recent move, budgets have been tight, so my folks just saying that they are homeowners again is gift enough for the time being.
As far as the real festive stuff goes, it is sadly dead as of now. All my life up til recent years we had had family reunions on Thanksgiving on my dad's side and made that our "Christmas" holiday together as each personal family preferred to have the actual holiday together alone. Long story short, Grandfather died, Grandmother went senile and favored the black sheep for everything, unity broke apart, reunion dead. Effectively as close to holiday spirit dead as I think I can get. Mother's side is a joke, so I won't even go there.
Tomorrow will be us cooking as planned here at home, likely yelling each others heads off in the process about how someone's not doing something right. I can literally hear it already; downstairs as I type. At least I'll hopefully have a job to keep my mind occupied this time next month.
As far as the real festive stuff goes, it is sadly dead as of now. All my life up til recent years we had had family reunions on Thanksgiving on my dad's side and made that our "Christmas" holiday together as each personal family preferred to have the actual holiday together alone. Long story short, Grandfather died, Grandmother went senile and favored the black sheep for everything, unity broke apart, reunion dead. Effectively as close to holiday spirit dead as I think I can get. Mother's side is a joke, so I won't even go there.
Tomorrow will be us cooking as planned here at home, likely yelling each others heads off in the process about how someone's not doing something right. I can literally hear it already; downstairs as I type. At least I'll hopefully have a job to keep my mind occupied this time next month.