...and she meant every word of it...
Merry Christmas!
And if you don't celebrate Christmas, or if you do but for non-religious reasons, then Happy Holidays!
Christmas is a part of that wonderful time of the year full of family traditions... sometimes too many of them, to judge from the general attitude of people towards the day, but I'm going to take a moment to tell you this:
Mine still has positive meaning - the family time. I think this has come as a result of not living with them for a while - we all kind of adapted to better mindsets.
So much that we can really have enjoyable, longer get-togethers (I refrain from calling them parties because I think some people abuse the term), and we tend to have long sessions of Rummikub (a couple hours on any given night).
Now why I bring this up is that, while we do have fun, the games do get kind of intense sometimes as my mom really wants the game to move along. Don't get me wrong, she's not cheating, but she does ask in a slightly rushed nature "are you done yet" a lot. It kind of reminds me of those vacations where the kids are in the back seat asking "Are we there yet" over and over... except the trip tends to go a bit faster for the family in the car than the game proceeds for my mom's expectations.
And it's funny because when we play, mom tends to say "if it's not there, it's not there". Well tonight, my aunt, in our first round, went so far into a negative score that it was just insane, and my mom's response was (I swear to God, she wasn't drinking anything other than tea, and I did NOT make this up):
"Sometimes you eat shit, sometimes the shit eats you."
I swear, that was what she said. My dad and aunt will vouch for this. Of course, what she was implying was the old "Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you" line, but man the substitution of one word really changed the meaning on that one.
No matter which way you go, it's crap.
So anyway, it was a great Christmas with my family, and I had a good time, and yes, I did get some very nice presents.
About the only thing missing for me was one person... one very special person. And if she's reading this, I hope she knows this little fact: she's very important to me, and she was the best gift I ever had. I hope I always have that gift.
And if you don't celebrate Christmas, or if you do but for non-religious reasons, then Happy Holidays!
Christmas is a part of that wonderful time of the year full of family traditions... sometimes too many of them, to judge from the general attitude of people towards the day, but I'm going to take a moment to tell you this:
Mine still has positive meaning - the family time. I think this has come as a result of not living with them for a while - we all kind of adapted to better mindsets.
So much that we can really have enjoyable, longer get-togethers (I refrain from calling them parties because I think some people abuse the term), and we tend to have long sessions of Rummikub (a couple hours on any given night).
Now why I bring this up is that, while we do have fun, the games do get kind of intense sometimes as my mom really wants the game to move along. Don't get me wrong, she's not cheating, but she does ask in a slightly rushed nature "are you done yet" a lot. It kind of reminds me of those vacations where the kids are in the back seat asking "Are we there yet" over and over... except the trip tends to go a bit faster for the family in the car than the game proceeds for my mom's expectations.
And it's funny because when we play, mom tends to say "if it's not there, it's not there". Well tonight, my aunt, in our first round, went so far into a negative score that it was just insane, and my mom's response was (I swear to God, she wasn't drinking anything other than tea, and I did NOT make this up):
"Sometimes you eat shit, sometimes the shit eats you."
I swear, that was what she said. My dad and aunt will vouch for this. Of course, what she was implying was the old "Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you" line, but man the substitution of one word really changed the meaning on that one.
No matter which way you go, it's crap.
So anyway, it was a great Christmas with my family, and I had a good time, and yes, I did get some very nice presents.
About the only thing missing for me was one person... one very special person. And if she's reading this, I hope she knows this little fact: she's very important to me, and she was the best gift I ever had. I hope I always have that gift.
