Ooh, I did it, and I'll probably have to do it again. Scratch out the date and rewrite it as the new Star Trek-sounding number of 2014. Happy New Year- that special time when we reflect on the past year, make resolutions for the new, and spend a lot of time erasing and rewriting the date.
How were your holidays? I honestly like hearing about how other people spent their holidays, mainly because they were never "fine"--you know, that catch-all word we use for most of our days. No, no, for holidays we have so many "perfect" expectations of them, that they were either magically good or terribly bad. So that means there's always a good story involved. So sit down and tell me yours.
Mine were okay, very nice in some respects and stressful in others. I missed my brother terribly this Christmas (he and his wonderful wife-to-be spent Thanksgiving with us and Christmas with her family). I'm 30 and this was our first season apart. Old habits die hard, and it just felt a little off.
My husband and I did have two wonderful Christmas days-- one with his family the Sunday before and the day-of with my parents. Lots of incredibly calorically-filled delights were consumed, lovely gifts exchanged, and time spent with loved ones--loved ones like Jennifer Ehle and Collin Firth, because I lost my dinner Christmas night and was on the couch trying to break a fever for 36 hours after that. It's a good thing Pride and Prejudice is 6 hours--perfect for the sick bed. I don't mind the excuse to be on the couch, but it's Christmas--I would have done that anyway. I just would have liked to be conscious while I did it.
After rallying both health and spirits, Nathan and I packed up to visit his family in the metropolis of Ina, Illinois (town of 300...wait, 600, if you include the Federal Prison's census), followed by New Year's Eve with my brother and fiance in Cincinnati.Sufficient to say, it was a whirlwind trip through the Mid-West, but we loved every minute.
Now it's January 2nd and it's back to both work and reality rather than the past week's dream of holiday festivities, twinkling lights and calories that don't count (right?). I'm always so sad to see the holidays go, but no matter whether they were elegant and perfect, or a little bumpy like this year's was, I love the feeling of newness that the time off and away and differences provides. Sick or not, I haven't written, planned, or strategized or edited the entire past week, and it was a good thing. I think I'm ready to get back into the swing of things and can't wait to see what this new year holds. Happy 2013! Argh, 2014. You know what I mean.
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