Christmas

[darren_stranger]

Christmas with the in-laws was different this year. After all the drama and disasters of the last few months, even the Christmas tree and decorations hadn't been brought down from storage, so we brought over our own little potted tree for the day. Standing there, decorating that straggly little tree with whatever ribbons and odds'n'sods we could find or improvise, trying to make Christmas nice for everybody after a really shitful year, i found myself thinking: "you know, i don't hate this". It was actually quite nice, perhaps just a little taste of what people see in the occasion. Of course, i still hated the inevitable present grab, as i do every year, but perhaps if i can remember to separate the things that i hate about Christmas from the things that are 'quite nice', it guess it could be, well, quite nice.

Comments

Hello!

[morgan303.livejournal.com]

Nice to see you here, and glad you had a good Christmas.
Here's hoping you have a lovely New Year too.:)

[redcountess]

christmas, as everything, is in the little details :-)

[strang-er.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Somehow, improvising little decorations for a straggly tree seemed much more genuine, more like my kind of Chritmas (and i didn't even know i had a 'my kind of Christmas').

Sorry you and David are feeling poorly, but hope yours was okay otherwise.

Re: Hello!

[strang-er.livejournal.com]

Hello. It was a great pleasure to meet you the other week, hope our paths cross again soon. (That 'passion' topic is definitely good as a conversation starter - i'd like to have that sort of conversation with people more often, though my next task will be learning to not spend the whole time talking about me). :)

Have a marvellous new year, hope i see you in it.

Re: Hello!

[morgan303.livejournal.com]

Likewise! I so enjoyed talking with you, and you certainly didn't talk about yourself too much.:)
Hope we meet up again, too - once the New Year's craziness is over and done with, hopefully there'll be some more...relaxed social outings coming up.
The 'passion' question is a good one, yes. It's the sort of question that might just end up changing someone's life one day. I like the idea of reminding people about the things they're *really* dedicated to.