Christmas Options

[Soulseeker3.0]

Hey what are all you gonna do with Christmas (if you celebrate it)?

I'm going to see family Christmas day....

[Kindred Spirit]

I'll be sitting around with my families, being bored out of my mind. I say families because I get to do Christmas with BOTH my mother and father's sides of the family. My father's side of the family on Christmas Eve, then my mother's side of the family on Christmas. My father's side of the family is split up a bit, so we have 3 or 4 sepparate places to go on Christmas Eve. My mother's side of the family, it's 2 or 3 on Christmas Day. Not to mention that I'll have Christmas with my father and immediate family (minus my mother) on Christmas Day, really early, and then again with my mother and my immediate family (minus my father) later on Christmas Day, but before we go see the rest of her family in various places.

And I don't like any of my family, father's side, mother's side, or my immediate family, don't have anyone to talk to, and there's no way I'll be able to get out of it, as it's supposed to be a family holiday, a day for us all to be together. *snorts* Ha, *looks up at previous paragraph* a little late for that, wouldn't you say?

The reason I don't particularly like any of my family is pretty simple. There's nobody to talk to in it. The closest relative I have to may age is a cousin a couple of years older, and we're not exactly very close, see eachother on holidays and birthdays (not on all of them, either) and only speak on some of them, usually short conversations. And the only relative I have anything in common with, I never see, because he's in college now, besides being enough older than me that we don't hang out much. The rest of my family isn't like me at all, to the point where most of us have commented at some point or another than I might as well be adopted, or maybe the hospital had a mixup, swapped me with the baby in the cradle next to me. I don't look/act/think like any of them, except mildly like that one cousin.


*Looks up* Oops, looks like I've been ranting. Oh well, there's one advantage to having a large family like this. A whole ton of LOOT! And, because each sepparate family group assumes we haven't eaten anything, that means we get Christmas breakfast/lunch/dinner/whatever a good 8-10 times, if we're hungry. And we're mostly Italian, so we have food well worth eating.