Procrastination

I just got on my blog and realized that I haven't posted for almost a month. What can I say it's the holidays!!!

Anyway, I'm sitting here feeling grouchy and bummed because I was sick all through Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Christmas Night, and today. The only difference is that now I have a sore throat and swollen glands added to the fever/chills/headache/upset stomach I've had (they take turns, how thoughtful). But I did come up with something great about being sick during Christmas: I couldn't eat much, so instead of gaining 10 lbs, I think I've lost weight :)

I realized once again, that people/families treat sickness differently. I spend part of the holiday with Nate's family, and they were very thoughtful. They let me sleep in this closed off room, Nate rubbed my feet and refilled the wetness (how do you say that?) of the washrag for my face when I had a 102 fever, and then he piled coats and a blanket on me when I was chilled... At my family's house, I was still expected to sing for the CD (I guess I expected it of myself too), and there really wasn't a quiet place in Kathy's house (it's big so we were there instead of my mom's) because there's 7 grand kids running around now. I finally decided to just go home and sleep, but there was a blizzard and the electricity was off at my house :'( I think the philosophy for my family has always been to leave the sick one alone, so I definitely felt spoiled at the Bull-Porter's. How sweet.

Besides the sick part, Christmas was pretty fun. I've never lived close to a significant other's family, so opening presents twice in the same day was exciting. It was a long day because Nate's family got up at 6, and my family started opening at 11, but in the past it's been a week long event. My family would celebrate on a different day, so we'd have two Christmas Eves and two Christmases, then the Scott Family New Year's Party... Doubled on the same day wasn't so bad.

All in all I was very spoiled. Did you know that people give clothes for Christmas? I love it. That's one more difference between my family and probably the rest of the world. All of us have such different tastes that I don't think we trust each other with that. But all of the presents were too much. I definitely enjoyed being around everybody as well, pictures to come. Thankfully my bad mood didn't start until today!