Not Too Scary Christmas Horrors
Category: Seasons
It occurred to me last night how physically exhausted I've become these past few weeks, with recently departed houseguests (my sister and her husband from the States), alongside a wedding, some birthdays (including mine the other day), the frenzy of shopping and wrapping, topped with endless calorific Christmas parties that are given realities of the season that we never fail to enjoy and complain about after.
The pits was last night when, mulling over these very same thoughts, we found ourselves driving, my husband and I, the daunting traffic to the domestic airport (not once, but twice!), to receive a styro box of precious, perishable, peeled durian, that arrived at a much later time from Davao than we were previously informed. What a bother, although normally I'd go to great lengths to enjoy durian, but I wouldn't have picked these days to have it all for that extra effort. It's just that it came as a sort of return favor from a demanding relative who begged and badgered for us to procure the last remaining Nintendo Wii unit she located thru frantic sourcing from Davao, which magically materialized in Toy Kingdom in SM North (a nightmarish location to go to around these times, also a two hour airplane ride from where she was), that we had to buy and aircargo for her the other day, at the height of the busiest time, can you imagine! Two crates of pomelo thrown in with the durian would have quieted me down, but none, so I'm still whining.
Actually, all this report has got to do with unseen old friends, who seemed synchronized in thought, that all of a sudden called (one from Montreal, the other from restless meandering around Makati, I'm sure), and even one visited. Admittedly these friends are spoiled in the sense that they don't need to do anything (if they choose to) for things to happen for them, who took the idleness option, unfortunately, which makes me suspect they are semi-miserable and ultra-bored. The moral of the story for us is: good things come out of being hands-on and driverless. At least we're not miserable and bored, only tired.
Suffice it to say that we are feeling a lot Christmasy at home, even back from last week. With a tinge of regret I realize that Christmas is already tonight, how soon it comes, which leads us then to that brief and festive few days of waiting around for the New Year, with another major wedding to go. So now we mind about what to wear and how even more tired we will all be. Most of all the food we will be eating between now and then makes me think, que horror!, which is always a thought that never really stopped me from doing the very same thing I do all the time, which is to eat and be merry. I mean, what's the point of New Year's resolutions without the added poundage, right?
It occurred to me last night how physically exhausted I've become these past few weeks, with recently departed houseguests (my sister and her husband from the States), alongside a wedding, some birthdays (including mine the other day), the frenzy of shopping and wrapping, topped with endless calorific Christmas parties that are given realities of the season that we never fail to enjoy and complain about after.
The pits was last night when, mulling over these very same thoughts, we found ourselves driving, my husband and I, the daunting traffic to the domestic airport (not once, but twice!), to receive a styro box of precious, perishable, peeled durian, that arrived at a much later time from Davao than we were previously informed. What a bother, although normally I'd go to great lengths to enjoy durian, but I wouldn't have picked these days to have it all for that extra effort. It's just that it came as a sort of return favor from a demanding relative who begged and badgered for us to procure the last remaining Nintendo Wii unit she located thru frantic sourcing from Davao, which magically materialized in Toy Kingdom in SM North (a nightmarish location to go to around these times, also a two hour airplane ride from where she was), that we had to buy and aircargo for her the other day, at the height of the busiest time, can you imagine! Two crates of pomelo thrown in with the durian would have quieted me down, but none, so I'm still whining.
Actually, all this report has got to do with unseen old friends, who seemed synchronized in thought, that all of a sudden called (one from Montreal, the other from restless meandering around Makati, I'm sure), and even one visited. Admittedly these friends are spoiled in the sense that they don't need to do anything (if they choose to) for things to happen for them, who took the idleness option, unfortunately, which makes me suspect they are semi-miserable and ultra-bored. The moral of the story for us is: good things come out of being hands-on and driverless. At least we're not miserable and bored, only tired.
Suffice it to say that we are feeling a lot Christmasy at home, even back from last week. With a tinge of regret I realize that Christmas is already tonight, how soon it comes, which leads us then to that brief and festive few days of waiting around for the New Year, with another major wedding to go. So now we mind about what to wear and how even more tired we will all be. Most of all the food we will be eating between now and then makes me think, que horror!, which is always a thought that never really stopped me from doing the very same thing I do all the time, which is to eat and be merry. I mean, what's the point of New Year's resolutions without the added poundage, right?
Poppycock | 12/24/2006 |
4 Comments:
"we are feeling a lot Christmasy at home" - yeh, we've tried spending christmas outside the constraints of our home and i got very nostalgic making me think about my childhood.
We thought it was a christmas liberation/rebirth or something but it was completely a rotten night. We are definitely feeling a lot more Christmacy at home with our family, grandparents, and cousins.
merry christmas, magikero :)
of course it should take for you to christmas outside of home to know that there's something about it (home) that draws the christmas spirit in and wants to keep it there, meant to be savoured and shared with family, then overflows with more than enough to spread the love around and all over.
what was i saying? oh yes, happy to you! i like your blog :)
happy birthday! kaya pala felicidad! feliz navidad!
mismo!
salamat, wendell :)
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