2012! And what I did for Christmas.

As I write this, we are taking down the Christmas tree. Goodbye, my evergreen pleasant smelling friend.

I hope everyone has had a splendid holiday season this year!

Unless you celebrate Christmas up until January 6^th, the holidays are pretty much over. We’ve gotten through Hanukkah, Christmas and New Years.

I got some pretty mice things for Christmas, including Eleven’s sonic screwdriver, a Doctor Who calendar and a Gryffindor scarf. It was pretty good. I can also happily say that I did not receive any makeup this year. It sucks to be the girl who gets offended by makeup, jewelry and clothing based gifts.

It was pretty nice this year. We had Christmas at our house then we took a trip to New Jersey to have Christmas number two, and it was incredibly crowded with the entirety of my mother’s side of the family in a very small room that is already crammed with boxes of presents.

There was also the usual post-Christmas shopping trip for the post-Christmas sales, where I was reminded of my aunts being absolute shopaholics. I’ve always been the person to spend, at the most, fifteen minutes in a store that did not sell books; I think my aunts spent at least two hours in every single store they walked in.

Not much of an exciting tradition, presents here, presents there, awkward conversations with relatives, awkward shopping trips, Jewish half of the family comes over to party and crazy amounts of small and hyperactive children.

That’s Christmas.

We spent New Years here in Massachusetts; I pretty much slept through it on account of a headache and pain meds for my recently removed wisdom teeth. Because of this, I hope it can act as an omen for more sleep during 2012 than I got during 2011.

I wish you all a reasonable amount of sleep in 2012, because it is an underrated blessing to have enough sleep and you will need it, I hear the Apocalypse will be a busy day.

And did anyone make a resolution for the New Year? Mine is to be able to handle/control my anxiety over medical procedures.