Christmas

A picture of our Christmas tree this year

Wow, the last few days have been extremely busy with Christmas celebrations.
Firstly, J made it to my hometown safely and on time. His father drove him out of New Brunswick so he could catch the bus in Amherst on Christmas day and travel to my hometown.
Christmas morning itself was pretty low key with just my mother, sister and myself there. We opened our presents that were there at the time, and just relaxed until J arrived. I was tired because I couldn't fall asleep as easily the night before. Even at the age of 23, I have trouble sleeping on Christmas eve as I get too excited to sleep. It wasn't really for Christmas time though, I was more excited to see J later that day as it had already been 6 weeks since I had seen him last.

The next couple of days following Christmas ended up being super busy. On boxing day, my other sister and my brother arrived with their significant others. We had another round of opening gifts with them, followed by another large meal, this time it was ribs and a caesar salad.
On the 27th, we had to wake up earlyish again in order for my mom's else to be showed to potential buyers. We had to be out of the house by 11am, so we decided to go to my dad's house. That was the plan anyway, but he was expecting us at noon or a little earlier. At my dad's we had another round of Christmas with him and his wife. This was then followed by another Turkey dinner and playing Apples to Apples with everybody.

Then yesterday, J and I left my hometown and travelled to Moncton by train, because J had to work today. Upon arriving, we discovered his cat had vomitted on his bed sheets in 3 different spots while he was away. So we started a load of laundry and threw the sheets in. Then he got me to do the dishes we brought down from his room while he organized his living room. I ended up doing the whole stack of dishes that were just sitting in the kitchen, including the ones his roommates used and didn't bother to clean yet. Yeah I went to visit him and ended up doing more housework than the roommates do. lol. But now his kitchen is tidy and all the dishes are done so hopefully the roommates will be more considerate and pick up after themselves more. It probably bugs one of them that I came in and cleaned everything up. I didn't do it to be spiteful to them, I did it because I saw how frustrated J was getting.

So it was a busy Christmas vacation. Hopefully we can relax a bit more now. J actually joked that he is now on vacation from his vacation now that he is back at work. I get to relax and spend time with him for the next 5 days before I have to return to Halifax for winter semester.
I got two grades back so far from the Fall semester. An A+ in one class, and an A- in another. I was quite pleased when those finally showed up.
Even though Christmas was a lot busier than normal, I still enjoyed it a lot. It was great to spend time around more people than just myself, and especially nice to see J again.

Hope everyone is having marvellous Holidays!

Top: Me opening a present on Christmas day!

Bottom: Me and J