Yule
Not a bad Yuletide this year, especially compared with last year's debacle. Was even invited back into the family fold, after last year's deliberate Casting Out of the Woman Damned. After a frantic morning of gift wrapping and cook 'n' stash, I had Christmas lunch at my parents' place (with both Bs and Pilgrim in tow, plus brother and partner) and then took off for a reboot of last year's bushwalk with the Fuzz and his girlfriend, which involved duck feeding, a couple of laps of a balmy river pool, and a return down the same path on which I collapsed last year, which I survived this year with nary a flashback. Took a detour around my suburb on the way home to admire local Christmas lights, which I approve of wholeheartedly. A good day's work, I feel.
Ahhh, Christmas lights. Excellent things. Part of me would love to deck the walls in lighting jolly, but it's a part I suppress out of a mix of laziness and financial prudence. I'm not sure what level of financial slack I'd need in the system to sink a few hundred a year into festive lights and the electricity to run them, but I don't see myself reaching it any time soon, if ever. Am glad other people do, though. Honestly, it's a community service! There should be awards, I say.
Merriment to all.
Ahhh, Christmas lights. Excellent things. Part of me would love to deck the walls in lighting jolly, but it's a part I suppress out of a mix of laziness and financial prudence. I'm not sure what level of financial slack I'd need in the system to sink a few hundred a year into festive lights and the electricity to run them, but I don't see myself reaching it any time soon, if ever. Am glad other people do, though. Honestly, it's a community service! There should be awards, I say.
Merriment to all.