Home for the Holidays!! Finally feeling right again.
A lot has happened in the very short period of time since I've been home. Some bad, some really good. Enough of the bad stuff, I think my last blog covered it all anyways, and sorry to anyone who read it, I really will survive it all. Since I've been home, I've partaken in some very traditional tv style christmas activities. Cutting down a Christmas Tree with my parents amidst a grove of trees in the country covered in snow, with my dog trailing behind trying to help us carry the tree!! It was a picture perfect moment, in fact I do have pictures of it, and I'll post them soon, but right now they are in transition between computers. Also, I finally finished my christmas shopping, going out a lot over the past 2 days busying myself, shopping with my best friends! It's been fun. Also, besides the occasional bickering, my sister and I are getting along surprisingly well.
Decorating our Christmas tree and listening to christmas carols, while sipping on apple cider, and then wrapping all my gifts, has finally made me realize that christmas is very near!! I haven't really felt much in the "Christmas" spirit.. I've only felt the commercialism of the whole charade.. but hanging out with my parents and sister, and laughing so much has made me remember what I loved so much about this season.. Being together with people I love.. already there are funny moments to be remembered: the look on my dog mortimers face when he saw the tree all decorated and didn't understand why he couldn't play with all the toys hanging on the tree, when Tash's hair almost caught on fire when she unknowingly dipped it in a candle while hanging lights.. and many more tidbits.
It's been such a traditional christmas season so far.. yet it is so different, I miss my life at rez.. and it was weird adjusting to being home again.. Being around my friends is different, we all have different lives, but yet we still get along so well.. I really have missed them all.
My brother came home today, and since he's been back, he's been doing work on his computer.. I don't think he ever stops working.. I wish he would. And I wish that I didn't have to feel as if I'm walking on eggshells around him, and if I say the wrong thing, he'll get all pissy again... I wish I felt as if he was my brother instead of some stranger visiting our house.. At least he came home for christmas! I'm thankful that he's at least healthy and looking at least a little bit happy, I can never tell for sure.
I can't say that I'm excited about christmas day.. because lately my thoughts have been straying so much to think that I already own so many material things when so many people have nothing.. Do I really deserve all the gifts I will get on thursday morning? I watched Oprah today, and it was so inspirational. (aak I know, I've been hooked thanks to Kate!) Last christmas she went to South Africa and gave gifts, food and clothes to over 50 000 children.. most of whom were orphans of AIDS and many were HIV positive.. Seeing this, and all the thoughts I've been having lately have reaffirmed 2 things for me. One, is that I know I am still in the right program at university, and Two, that I really am too concerned about material things, and I need to shift my perceptions slightly, but it'll take time.
For now, I plan on enjoying being with my family and do what I can to make the world a more just place. I really can't wait to see the happy looks on my family's faces on Christmas, it's so fun to see there reactions to gifts! I'm also looking forward to my Christmas Day phone chat with Kate, my roomie from BC!!
It's gonna be a fun break, full of friends, relaxing, sleeping, family time, and partying!! Especially on Tuesday the 30th, when I've decided to give myself a day of pampering. Beginning with a massage at Serenity Day Spa in the morning and continuing with a hair cut in the afternoon!! I can't wait! It shall be divine.
To anyone reading my blog, Have a good holiday and a happy New Year!! P.S to my roomies!! I miss you guys but I'll see you all soon!!
A lot has happened in the very short period of time since I've been home. Some bad, some really good. Enough of the bad stuff, I think my last blog covered it all anyways, and sorry to anyone who read it, I really will survive it all. Since I've been home, I've partaken in some very traditional tv style christmas activities. Cutting down a Christmas Tree with my parents amidst a grove of trees in the country covered in snow, with my dog trailing behind trying to help us carry the tree!! It was a picture perfect moment, in fact I do have pictures of it, and I'll post them soon, but right now they are in transition between computers. Also, I finally finished my christmas shopping, going out a lot over the past 2 days busying myself, shopping with my best friends! It's been fun. Also, besides the occasional bickering, my sister and I are getting along surprisingly well.
Decorating our Christmas tree and listening to christmas carols, while sipping on apple cider, and then wrapping all my gifts, has finally made me realize that christmas is very near!! I haven't really felt much in the "Christmas" spirit.. I've only felt the commercialism of the whole charade.. but hanging out with my parents and sister, and laughing so much has made me remember what I loved so much about this season.. Being together with people I love.. already there are funny moments to be remembered: the look on my dog mortimers face when he saw the tree all decorated and didn't understand why he couldn't play with all the toys hanging on the tree, when Tash's hair almost caught on fire when she unknowingly dipped it in a candle while hanging lights.. and many more tidbits.
It's been such a traditional christmas season so far.. yet it is so different, I miss my life at rez.. and it was weird adjusting to being home again.. Being around my friends is different, we all have different lives, but yet we still get along so well.. I really have missed them all.
My brother came home today, and since he's been back, he's been doing work on his computer.. I don't think he ever stops working.. I wish he would. And I wish that I didn't have to feel as if I'm walking on eggshells around him, and if I say the wrong thing, he'll get all pissy again... I wish I felt as if he was my brother instead of some stranger visiting our house.. At least he came home for christmas! I'm thankful that he's at least healthy and looking at least a little bit happy, I can never tell for sure.
I can't say that I'm excited about christmas day.. because lately my thoughts have been straying so much to think that I already own so many material things when so many people have nothing.. Do I really deserve all the gifts I will get on thursday morning? I watched Oprah today, and it was so inspirational. (aak I know, I've been hooked thanks to Kate!) Last christmas she went to South Africa and gave gifts, food and clothes to over 50 000 children.. most of whom were orphans of AIDS and many were HIV positive.. Seeing this, and all the thoughts I've been having lately have reaffirmed 2 things for me. One, is that I know I am still in the right program at university, and Two, that I really am too concerned about material things, and I need to shift my perceptions slightly, but it'll take time.
For now, I plan on enjoying being with my family and do what I can to make the world a more just place. I really can't wait to see the happy looks on my family's faces on Christmas, it's so fun to see there reactions to gifts! I'm also looking forward to my Christmas Day phone chat with Kate, my roomie from BC!!
It's gonna be a fun break, full of friends, relaxing, sleeping, family time, and partying!! Especially on Tuesday the 30th, when I've decided to give myself a day of pampering. Beginning with a massage at Serenity Day Spa in the morning and continuing with a hair cut in the afternoon!! I can't wait! It shall be divine.
To anyone reading my blog, Have a good holiday and a happy New Year!! P.S to my roomies!! I miss you guys but I'll see you all soon!!
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