Crimas Blog: 4.1

Merry Christmas!!!! Christmas is by far my favourite holiday. Largely because for the last 5 years I have either been in or worked at a university so I generally get one paid week off - topped up with a few vacation days to make it a solid 2 weeks. Pretty sweet. I also feel it's okay at this time of year to get drunk on Bailey's in the morning. I usually sober up by lunch and it doesn't give me an afternoon hangover.

Of course, the other best part of Christmas is hanging around with the people you love and (hopefully) like. Last night Dorothy, Judith and I went to see a movie while Donald and Kris stayed home, played darts and got into a fight. When we came home Dad was upstairs trying to surf the internet and Kris was just coming up from the basement where he had disabled the router. That was their story, but I think we all know they had a lovely time and have made plans to get together again.

So yes, the movie. Having worked in a movie theatre for many years and having terrible memories of having to choose if I would work over Christmas or over New Year's, I had to apologize to the usher for coming to a movie on Christmas Eve. He was chipper about it though and I have to say, it was truly delightful. The diet coke was delightful, as were my raisinets; the very few number of people milling around was delightful (only 10 in our movie, including us), and the movie was just excellent. We saw The King's Speech with Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush. I loved it. We all agreed the swearing was the best part! Also, it's nice to know such a heart-warming story was going on just a couple of years before the world descended into some very dark times.

That's it. That's my Christmas day post. We're spending today over at Mom and Dad's where we'll get to watch the first grandchild enjoy his first Christmas. I'm pretty stoked about that! I suppose I could tell you that last night I had a dream about old timey radio broadcasts (makes sense given the movie) and Meech Lake. Not the accord, the actual lake. Griff and I were walking along the hiking trails there. It's a beautiful spot but, I have to say, not as beautiful as the view out my front window in my hometown on Christmas morning.