in which there are good holidays.

[chris_warrior]

in heavy contrast to the General World Crappiness, my holidays were quiet, warm, fun, and soaked in sugar. literally; i have been eating way too many sweets, and am trying tor rein myself in and go cold-turkey again today. stepping on the scale this morning for the first time in four days or so was quite the wake-up call.

i turned 47 without much fanfare. i saw Star Wars: The Last Jedi, with 5/7 of my family. i decorated my birthday cake (as per usual). we ate birthday cake. we played cards. it's almost as if my birthday/holiday routine has returned to its normal 'set point', just as it finally did after i left my ex-husband, and after Joshua died.

we did attend Mass on my birthday, as a family (well, minus one of my brothers, who isn't terribly religious and was fighting a cold to boot), because my mom couldn't get the Mass on my nephew's actual anniversary. honestly, we should be buying the 21st anyway, since my nephew was on life support for two days with no hope of coming back to us. nothing is going to take away the memory of that awful night thirteen years ago.

my elder nephew and i saved the world (Pandemic), first from a four-epidemic outbreak and then a very intense six-epidemic outbreak (which we won by the skin of our teeth). the family, in various combinations, played a lot of Pitch. i'm sad they didn't hang in one more day, but they stay at my brother's house and (i gather) 5 nights on his guest bed is enough.

i did spend most of my Christmas evening alone in my room (well, cuddled up with Brigid on my lap) watching movies and finishing a video game, but that was almost entirely due to my utter disinclination to watch NBA basketball with the rest of my family and not being tired of them. a tiny bit of it was wanting to finish the damn video game i was working through so i could start a new one.

now i'm gambling that bargaining with myself - that i can only play Dragon Age on days i don't consume sugar - will help get my addiction back under control. :D

hope everyone reading this had wonderful holidays; if they weren't wonderful in ALL aspects, i hope they were wonderful in SOME aspect. so much sun here today, though it's incredibly windy and i'm not sure about going to snowshoe (which was something i was considering). so, hey, the light is returning, at least. darkest day is behind us.

<3 <3 <3