*peeks head around the corner*
…Is it safe to resurface yet?
Thats most of the festive season over again – I don’t know why but it hit me really bad this year. Having a miserable cold for most of december didn’t help, but I don’t think thats the whole story.
Still, things this year are a bit better than they were last year, I’m in a job that has at least some prospects and, despite my recent malaise, my head is in a much better place, admittedly not sorted by any stretch of the imagination but able to face the world.
I’ve felt an odd excitment about entering this year, something about it feels really positive.
Christmas itself was a fairly low key family affair, just four of us having a nice meal and afternoon together. A couple of days later was a rather larger gathering bringing in a number of members of the extended family, complete with the usual tensions (I managed to respond with rather more vitriol than intended to one of the jibes by an aunt, after which I thought it politic to remain quiet…for which I was treated to mindless discussions of the complexities of cooking jam, among other things).
Then there was a game of Civilization. I’d forgotten what a great game it is, though it isn’t a short game so its a bit difficult to find days to play it.
Next was Whitby for New Year, but I’ll make a seperate entry about that later…interesting but not quite the gossipworthy event that some people have been lead to believe.