12.31.2008

Holidays and cheer...

I have always been very excited about Christmas. Even though when I fill out some survey that asks me my favorite holiday, I can never remember that Christmas is my fav~lol. Well this year was no different. There were no surprises for me, but it was an all in all great Christmas. I ordered a laptop from Costco when they were having a great deal in November, and got it around the 20th of November. At the time J said it would be my anniversary present (November 10th) and I was happy about that, since I wasn't expecting anything. Then once Christmas neared, and I took out my laptop he asked me "how do you like your new laptop?" And I replied "Oh I love it!" He said "Good, so it is like your Christmas present then" Um, yeah.


So Christmas is all about giving, not about receiving. J has always been like this, so I was not too surprised, so I proceeded to do my usual spoiling of Mr J. Growing up he never really had a Christmas, at all, and so now he does and I don't. Wah wah wah. I know. I really didn't think he would actually not get me anything at all. I did get some gifts from other family members. I actually took some time off from work and just stayed home! That was pretty great. I stayed home for one week. It was great, I got SO much done! That was the greatest gift of all this year (besides the laptop).


New years: We are going to our friends house tonight. It is not going to be a blow out party or anything, and if it was, I don't know if I could handle it. It has been so very long since I actually had an exciting New Years. We are going to hang out and watch movies, and have some champagne at midnight. We usually stay there until about 3 in the morning (record time for J). When I told him we would be going there for New Years Eve, he asked me "are you OK with that?" And I was like "Well, it is better than being home in bed (sleeping) at midnight!" I know, I am such a brat, but I am feeling lately how very mundane our life really is, it must be midlife crisis! LOL! I hope not, I am not that old after all.

*later~after the "party"...
OK. I can't really call it a party. There were three couples, and 4 kids. I handed out the Christmas gifts that I wasn't able to give them since they were in Mexico. We had dinner. It was ceviche made with soy (better than it sounds). Then we watched a home video of a party in Mexico, though interesting, not really my cup of tea since I didn't know any of them. I was getting texts from everyone else having a normal celebration all dressed up and counting down. That just made it harder to be sitting there watching the History Channel (I'm not kidding~from 8:30-11:30). Finally at 11:55pm I asked if we could at least watch the count down. We did, and had some champagne that I brought over (I immediately downed 3 glasses and was happy). Then J was ready to go home. It was an ok night all in all. It could have been worse I guess.