I’m working on our 12 Days of Christmas but a monkey wrench went into that today when the stupid commissary was closed. We’ll pick up food for the pantry another day. Tomorrow’s St. Stephen’s Day and, while lots of ideas involving Stephen Colbert have rambled around in my head, nothing is materializing. I am realizing how little I have in common with my own damn family. Most everything that I think is fun they’re not interested in and, since I’m not much of a cheerleader, I’m losing the battle. Anyone interested in helping take care of all the junk food in my house and playing some games (Nintendo or otherwise) tomorrow should just come on over. I’m bored and no one wants to play with me. I may fall back on statistics to occupy my time and that’s never good. Yes, of course, I’m knitting but after awhile my hands start to hurt so I can’t (unfortunately) spend all day with DPN’s in my hands. I’ve finished three projects in the last two weeks and that has got to be a record even if two of them are swiffer cloths.

I have resolved that 2009 will not suck as much as 2008 did. I hope I am right. More on that later. I’d love to know people are still reading my bloggy nonsense.

Happy Boxing Day!

I think my primary frustration comes from having family on both sides that puts the fun in dysfunctional.  We’re not close, can’t explain why and see no need to really try and resolve it.  Honestly, I have felt like an outsider inside my own family since I was quite small.  As a result, I crave for my family to be closer.  We are but sometimes it seems not quite close enough.  And, of course, factor in that the older four brats have flown the coop and the holidays seem like a big, fat, letdown in the making for family time.

I also hate presents.  I hate shopping for presents.  I’m intimidated by how much some people give their kids and, while I have never really felt the urge (or had the ability) to keep up with that I always wonder how that makes my kids feel.  I also hate that presents take the focus of Christmas away from what it should be which is faith (although I am losing mine lately but that’s another post), friends and family.  Having a shitty family has set me up for disappointment for quite awhile.

The other part I don’t like so much is that once Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are done, that’s it.  Typically the days between the 25th of December and the 31st are just nothing but wasted opportunities for fun.  So this year, because I am really digging deep to make these holidays not suck, I have come up with and will be implementing the first annual 12 Days of Christmas.

Here they are:

• 24^th Christmas Eve (@our friends’ house for cards, cocktails, whatever)
• 25^th Christmas Brunch here will also involve opportunities to play with all the video games and other toys that we’ll be getting.  (ROCK BAND!) So come over and get your nerd on.
  
• 26^th Boxing Day: Grocery shop and deliver purchases to food pantry
• 27^th St. Stephen’s Day: Surprise friends with treats or maybe dinner?
• 28^th Denzel Washington’s birthday: Movie Festival!  Not necessarily Denzel Movies since a lot of them aren’t really Khan friendly.
• 29^th Celebrating the birthday of the inventor of the chicken nugget! Nuggets and fries for dinner and game day!
• 30^th Rudyard Kipling born 1865: Watch Jungle Book, my favoritest Disney Movit today.  Also: Severus: Harry Potter!
• 31^st Hogmanay, 14^TH Wedding Anniversary: Dinner party,Games, make sure I am showered with gifts and accolades and treated like a Queen (yeah, right!)
• 1^st New Year’s Day
• 2^nd Ogre/Crunchy and the Queen (hopefully) here for more video games and family time
• 3^rd Kindertag (kids can plan the day) Sarge and I will be here for our anniversary.  It is rare that we get away like grown ups.  I am very excited.
• 4^th Anniversary of the Battle of Reading.  I realize this has nothing to do with books but the kids will never figure it out since we’ve blocked Wikipedia.  I shall curl up with a good book, read some stories to the Khan and whomever else wants to listen and everyone picks a favorite snack for lunch and dinner that day.  I will have to work to make some of them healthy.

January 5th will be “Haul my Fat Ass to the Gym” day.

Cheers!