Back in the jug agane (97/365)

[white_hart]

There's a lot to be said for a holiday at home. You get to sleep in your own comfortable bed, use your own kitchen gadgets rather than finding that you have bought things to go in the oven and there are no baking trays, or lots of cans and no can opener, and you have all your books and hobbies around you. I may be a convert to the staycation*. (I used to think just staying at home was dull and didn't feel like a proper break, but the only time I ever did it before was over Christmas and New Year - even when I haven't gone away, normally time off work would involve some day trips or similar - and now I think that maybe it's just Christmas that is dull and doesn't feel like a proper break**.)

Anyway, I'm back at work now, which is less fun, though having had C monitoring my email in my absence did mean that, wonderfully, I came back to a neatly categorised set of about 40 emails that needed something done with them, rather than 250 unread emails that needed to be read and triaged. I will definitely be doing that again.

*I will absolutely die on the hill of "staycation" meaning that you stay in your own house. If you go away in your own country, that is still a bloody holiday.

**I really dislike Christmas and one of the few points of regular contention between me and T is that his idea of a "low-key" Christmas still involves a lot of Christmas, whereas I'd quite like to just ignore it completely. And the lack of daylight doesn't help.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

A former colleague of mine hated Christmas festivities so much he went to Vietnam. By train.

[alithea]

I will join you in dying on that hill.

I don't mind bits of Christmas but I am not in the least bit disappointed that Kev never gets enough holiday over it for us to have to travel to family any more - travelling up and down the country over Christmas is just miserable!

[lilysea]

After several unpleasant Christmases spent

- with my family

- with my partner's family

- with friends' family

- at a waifs/strays do

I have decided that for me the least painful Christmas is "stay home, alone, read books, watch TV/films, eat tasty food, have very low expectations"

[ankaret]

I would also very much like to ignore Christmas. I'm not quite at the point of going to Vietnam by train but I understand the impulse.

[cmcmck]

Molesworth! :o)

I loathe Christmas but if that's the day your parents threw you out at fifteen for being trans you'd tend to, wouldn't you?