Merry Christmas!
Originally published at Unwritten. You can comment here or there.
Well, here we go, only 4ish hours left till Christmas!
Ah, the things we put up with for the sake of family right? So much the drama and angst flowing around me, while i’m just entering a phase of “I dont care” I really dont at this point- I dont want to goto the standard christmas gathering, i dont want to do much of anything but wait till i can leave and make my way back home.
I’m already making plans to have a much different christmas next year, hopefully things will be able to work out. I know it will be difficult to pull off, but anything will be better than the bland, vanilla- standard Christmas of these past 10+ years.
Here is the Christmas Schedule (based off last year, and the year before, and the year before, and the year before. . . )
Leave Cerritos, goto Midnight mass (which is actually at 11pm this year; go figure)
Leave mass, head to gathering location (This year its in Monterey Park.. whoopie…)
Stand around, eat something (cold something or another)
Sit around pretending to love and like each other.
Midnight comes around, everyone says “Merry Christmas”
Gifts are passed out.
Gifts are opened.
Everyone pretends to love/enjoy their gifts.
Everyone sits around till someone finally decides to go home.
We go home.
Sleep.
Wake up sometime in the afternoon/late morning and pass out the “family” gifts
Goto a movie.
Yes, granted there are a few “variables” in the scheme of what goes on; but generally its the same. I dont know how much more i can take pretending every year. Every year it gets more vanilla, more generic, and just less Christmas. I’ve been doing it so long for the sake of my mom, but.. what about my own sake? I want to capture the Christmas spirit within me again- but this routine is just killing it; for everyone.