Merry Christmas?
First update since my cluster F-bomb. Felt like maybe I should move my LJ on. (My feelings about our new orange overlord are unchanged, btw.)
This has been an odd Christmas, and not just because we've been short on Mandarin oranges. Things weren't feeling quite right. And then I figured out it's the first Christmas that's been just Mom and me at home. Dad died in '14. That Christmas, we had my sister Meg's family here. Then, last year, Mom and I went to Alaska to be with my other sister's family. This year . . . just us at home. My brother and his family are in town, of course, and we had a wonderful Christmas dinner with them, but it felt strange all the same. Part of it is that my mom's been sick, too. She got knocked flat by the flu, and it kind of left her short on holiday spirit.
So, yeah, it's been a melancholy Christmas for me. I hope next year's is better.
In better news, I've got a potential job tutoring online. It's not much, but it's something. I'm going to fill the rest of my time with volunteering. Plump up the resume, make some contacts . . .
And maybe get out of town when I can. I need another adventure. And maybe to avoid the country for the next, oh, four years.
This has been an odd Christmas, and not just because we've been short on Mandarin oranges. Things weren't feeling quite right. And then I figured out it's the first Christmas that's been just Mom and me at home. Dad died in '14. That Christmas, we had my sister Meg's family here. Then, last year, Mom and I went to Alaska to be with my other sister's family. This year . . . just us at home. My brother and his family are in town, of course, and we had a wonderful Christmas dinner with them, but it felt strange all the same. Part of it is that my mom's been sick, too. She got knocked flat by the flu, and it kind of left her short on holiday spirit.
So, yeah, it's been a melancholy Christmas for me. I hope next year's is better.
In better news, I've got a potential job tutoring online. It's not much, but it's something. I'm going to fill the rest of my time with volunteering. Plump up the resume, make some contacts . . .
And maybe get out of town when I can. I need another adventure. And maybe to avoid the country for the next, oh, four years.