Last year we didn't have a tree since I spent my three weeks off from school in London on a class trip, and my brother went back to school the day after Christmas to work on building a solar powered car. So this year my parents have decided that since we survived without one last year, we can do it again this year.
Christmas has never been a favorite holiday of mine though. My first memory of the holiday is waking up on Christmas morning when I was 6 and finding my grandma incoherent after suffering a stroke in the middle of the night. Needless to say, I spent that Christmas in the hospital. Subsequent holidays were spent either in hospitals, nursing homes, or rehab centers with either my grandma or my grandfather. Now I tend to dread the holidays, wondering what could possibly go wrong this year. I know I'm a Scrooge, but Bah-Humbug anyways.
Now that I've depressed myself, and probably you guys too, I want to wish everybody a happy holiday season. I've always found it somewhat ironic that so many religions and cultures have big holidays at this time of year. I suppose I could say it all traces back to the Roman holiday, Saturnalia, but then I'd be proving what a nerd I am and that I actually remember something from the five years of Latin I took in high school .
Anyways, happy holidays and enjoy what ever time you get off (I plan on spending my three weeks alternating between sleeping and playing with my baby goats)!
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no tree this year (rambling, sorry)
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