Another xmas survived

[sawyl]

Well, it looks like I've survived Christmas for another year. We had the usual Christmas Day stresses, culminating in an almighty row around supper time, and a Boxing Day marred by various arguments about the kids. Unlike pater's family, however, we haven't all fallen out with each other over trivialities — they got into a row after someone claimed that someone else hadn't cooked enough roast potatoes only to discover, at the end of the meal, a vast surplus of spuds.

With stress levels finally returning to something like their normal levels, everyone is actually starting to enjoy themselves again. Today, in fact, was positively joyous, thanks to some old friends who came round for a very long lunch and thanks to my parents who cooked up a total storm in kitchen. It was basically everything that Christmas Day should have been, but wasn't.

Comments

[drspleen.livejournal.com]

yeah, getting a big group of people that don't really get along together but must because of some sort of genetic linkage is always a good idea.

on a side note, the soundtrack to the buffy musical episode rules.

[sawyl.livejournal.com]

My relatives are like some sort fissile material: assemble too much (or too many) in any one place and it goes critical, releasing fatal levels of radiation. Unfortunately, the current critical threshold seems to be 1.5 relatives, which makes any sort of family get-together a sure fire recipe for disaster...