happy freaking holidays
Well, Christmas day has come and gone, thank Goddess. Since Christmas came on a Monday, I weighed in just as I should: 185.8 lbs, another 2.2 pounds gone, just over 10 to go.
This was the second year in a row I’ve spent Christmas by myself. Last year was a relief to have it to myself, but not so much this year. I broke with my Christmas tradition of going to a movie, there wasn’t anything I was in the mood for. Sure, there are some movies out I want to see, like Rocky Balboa, and Apocalypto, and Night at the Museum, but I wasn’t in the mood for any of them on Christmas. I think the phone call to my family put me in a mood that I never really shook off.
I called my parents on Christmas after unwrapping my presents. They were pretty busy getting things ready for my daughter and her husband and their daugher, and her husband’s parents who came up to visit. With my impeccable sense of timing I managed to call just before everyone started arriving that morning. The net result: I got to talk to my parents and daughter for a grand total of about 10 minutes. I was pretty disappointed about it.
The worst part was hearing all the stuff starting to happen in the background. I really just wanted to be there with my family and felt like the odd man out, which I was. After we hung up I got really homesick, maybe the worst I’ve had it since I moved here. It just carried through the rest of the day.
I have a granddaughter who turns 1 in a couple of months that I haven’t been able to go back and see yet. Some days it feels like I’m never going to make it back no matter how much I want it.I jsut want to go back for a little while and see my family and friends again, and breathe the cool, dry, mountain air again.
But the holiday wasn’t a total loss. I watched a few movies, and started planning and plotting my garden. I had hoped to actually do some digging for it and start gettig the ground prepped, but the weather was rainy and crappy, so I’m shooting for this weekend instead. I haven’t had a garden in a few years, it’ll be nice to have one again. I’m slowly building up a compost pile out back from all the juice pulp in the mornings and other vegetable waste. Better it winds up compost my yard than a landfill. It won’t produce much until next year though, I started it rather late this year. I may buy some compost and mix it in in next month or february, I’ll have to see how money works out between now and then.
Hope your holidays are going well, and see you next time.