The Christmas Aftermath

That sounds so negative doesn't it? Well, it was quite a Christmas for me this year. The day before Christmas Eve and early in the day Christmas Eve were pretty rough. I spend 5 hours or more cleaning the house and preparing for Christmas day. I had been really looking forward to having everyone over for Christmas, but it's not something I'll be doing again soon. Anyway...a lot of stuff was just weighing down on me with it being the first Christmas since my parents split, and I was really just wishing that I had a nice guy to throw his arms around me, tell me he loves me and that everything is going to be ok. Unfortunately, my emotions were misdiricted toward Roomiestar, and I still feel bad about it, but it'll get worse later. So anyway, after letting out a good cry, I got in the car and headed to Circleville to my aunt's house to spend time with my Mom's family. It was a lot of fun. Good food, as always. I actually got to talk to my cousin who I will call Navy (because she was in the Navy for a while) which was cool, because I haven't really had a chance to talk to her in about 8 or 9 years. Then we played games which was a first for our family, but it ended up being a lot of fun. The first one, we tossed Christmas cards into a basket to see who could get the most...I didn't. Then we all sat in a circle and every other person got a gift. Then my Aunt told a story about the "Wright family." The rule was that everytime she said, "right" you had to pass the gifts to the right and everytime she said, "left" you had to pass them to the left. It was pretty fun, I ended up not getting one at the end of the game but the she made sure everyone got something, and I ended up with a Longaberger basket. Then we opened presents and I actually got some: a pretty red sweater that I wore on Christmas day and a cookie plate. I was suprised because we used to have a rule that everyone that had graduated from high school either didn't get a gift or we'd do a Secret Santa kind of deal. So that was cool. Then I went to Columubus to my brother's mother-in-law's house so I could see my brother and his wife and my nephew and my dad. I didn't stay there incredibly long, but it was great getting to see my baby nephew. He's getting big...he's up and walking now. So then I came home and went to bed.

I woke up Christmas morning feeling great simply because it was Christmas morning. Then I went to rehearsal then we had the service which went better than I thought it would. After the service Roomiestar and PC wanted me to go get Chinese with them and Bowler and I didn't want to because I had so much to do at the house before dinner, but they convinced me. So then we all went on a wild goose chase to find something open and ended up just coming back to the house and ordering pizza. This is where the real fun starts. The day felt like a disaster to me because I was so focused on being a good hostess that I ended up totally screwing up. I had to leave as soon as we got there to go take care of some cats. Then I had to leave again to try and find sour cream because I completely forgot it. In the meantime the gang back here kept calling everywhere to see if they were open and if they had sour cream. No luck, until Roomiestar's parents remembered that they had some at their place so her dad went back and got it. So yeah...on top of that I was just plain being a pill. I mean I was a pain in the butt, and in hindsight I feel terrible about it. I don't know if it's PMS or just the same thing I that was wrong with me on Christmas Eve, but I got over it for long enough to at least enjoy Christmas. Bowler was there, as I said and he did stay the whole day which made me glad because I really didn't want the poor guy to be alone on Christmas day. We played Life and Clue and had a lot of fun. PC won both games because he cheats...j/k. Anyway, we had dinner and everyone complimented my cooking which was cool. Then we opened presents. Now...the last couple months I had been expecting to get very little if I got anything at all. Yeah...I was wrong. I got a necklace (which I put on immediately and a book (which I already read this morning) from Roomiestar, Bruce Almighty DVD and a wallet with some cash in it from Roomiestar's parents, and like 4 sweaters, a pair of jeans, bras, underwear, socks, a teddy bear with a Clay High School sweatshirt on it, a Narnia book, a Michael Buble CD, and this is the kicker...Adobe Photoshop from my mom. I about killed her. I was very thankful for it, but I knew she couldn't afford it, so I don't know where the money came from, but she got it somehow. So I'm probably going to spend a good part of the rest of today learning how to use it. So then the parents left and Roomiestar, PC, Bowler, and I went to the movies. Bowler paid for all of us, I guess that was his Christmas present to us. We went to see King Kong...yeah...I really wish I had known ahead of time that that movie was 3 hours long. It was good...it was just really long. So then I came home and was just feeling like crap emotionally. So I hid in my room till Roomiestar went to bed and then I went for a drive. That's a sure sign that I have A LOT on my mind. Fortunately, I got over a lot of the crap going on in my head without saying too much that I would later regret.

Anyway...I've had plenty of time to myself today to think about stuff, and I'll have more time for the rest of the day. So sorry this got so long, but there's even more I could say. I'll talk about it sometime later though. I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. I had a few rough spots but it was still good. I'll be seeing ya!!

God bless!

Pepto