Christmas update
Hope you all had a restful and amusing holiday. My uncle and cousins were here -- I was nice and gave up my bed to my uncle, who is probably at least 6'4" and doesn't fit neatly onto the futon in our guest room. Two cousins, Emma and Sean, camped out in our "middle room" upstairs with mum claiming the downstairs and Basil, who has his own bed, voluntarily inhabiting the couch just because he likes it.
All in all, a full house. We laughed a lot and ate too much, mostly sweets and junk, too. MMm. Couldn't stop thinking about all the starving people in Darfur, and for some reason that made me eat more. I know it makes no sense. I guess I'm also thinking about my own departure, and enjoying every hot shower to to the last steaming drop.
I'm a little miffed I didn't get to go to church as planned, because I planned on going by myself until my mom jumped in, then suddenly everyone wanted to come with, then suddenly it became "our plan" which was changed several times and finally abandoned altogether. As a non-churchgoer, I still consider myself very spiritual and this year I feel as if I have really a lot to be thankful for. I have to think of another way to express that, I suppose.
Yesterday I skiied with Sean and today I am soooo sore that I feel like an old lady, stumbling around the house holding my lower back. He is 13, and thus impossible to keep up with but it was lots of fun anyway, and because I don't get to ski much anymore (too expensive), I was an easy sell on "one more run" time and again. Plus he's kind of shy and I really enjoyed the chance to catch up and be close to him.
I am really behind in Peace Corps paperwork for reasons I can't understand. I'm in, I'm going, my whole life revolves around this plan right now. But I can't seem to get up the creative energies needed to finish an aspiration statement and updated resume. I blamed the holidays, the visitors, the writing of Christmas cards that needed to take precedence, but I had a deadline for this, and I emailed for an extension, and I missed both the former and the self-imposed dates. No one has emailed me back or contacted me requesting the information; I should do it today but I'd rather go riding. Bad, bad. Hilary's home, and we've had nice weather, and I guess part of me is waiting for a cold, miserable day. But the other part of me is just off in space.
I got my 'staging kit' (orientation packet) yesterday. I will be in Arlington, VA the 27-28th of January, and I fly out to La Paz on the 29th -- my birthday (i'm not sure how to punctuate the end of this sentence; I'm somewhere between an ellipsis and ten exclamation points)
All in all, a full house. We laughed a lot and ate too much, mostly sweets and junk, too. MMm. Couldn't stop thinking about all the starving people in Darfur, and for some reason that made me eat more. I know it makes no sense. I guess I'm also thinking about my own departure, and enjoying every hot shower to to the last steaming drop.
I'm a little miffed I didn't get to go to church as planned, because I planned on going by myself until my mom jumped in, then suddenly everyone wanted to come with, then suddenly it became "our plan" which was changed several times and finally abandoned altogether. As a non-churchgoer, I still consider myself very spiritual and this year I feel as if I have really a lot to be thankful for. I have to think of another way to express that, I suppose.
Yesterday I skiied with Sean and today I am soooo sore that I feel like an old lady, stumbling around the house holding my lower back. He is 13, and thus impossible to keep up with but it was lots of fun anyway, and because I don't get to ski much anymore (too expensive), I was an easy sell on "one more run" time and again. Plus he's kind of shy and I really enjoyed the chance to catch up and be close to him.
I am really behind in Peace Corps paperwork for reasons I can't understand. I'm in, I'm going, my whole life revolves around this plan right now. But I can't seem to get up the creative energies needed to finish an aspiration statement and updated resume. I blamed the holidays, the visitors, the writing of Christmas cards that needed to take precedence, but I had a deadline for this, and I emailed for an extension, and I missed both the former and the self-imposed dates. No one has emailed me back or contacted me requesting the information; I should do it today but I'd rather go riding. Bad, bad. Hilary's home, and we've had nice weather, and I guess part of me is waiting for a cold, miserable day. But the other part of me is just off in space.
I got my 'staging kit' (orientation packet) yesterday. I will be in Arlington, VA the 27-28th of January, and I fly out to La Paz on the 29th -- my birthday (i'm not sure how to punctuate the end of this sentence; I'm somewhere between an ellipsis and ten exclamation points)