Tis the season

Life is too short to keep letting myself get hurt by a certain somebody.

I'm going to have to gird my loins (whatever the hell that means) and enjoy my singlehood this Christmas. Sure, I know I'm gonna get looks and questions from certain relatives. I'm sure everyone in the family must know by now, most of them were probably to the point of wondering when he would finally propose (lol, like he'd actually do something like that.)

Despite my unease about my situation this year, I am very excited to get together with the entire family again. My dad's side of the family is full of fun crazy people. Christmas eve will be spent with a good cousin of mine and a few other close relatives. Her daughter is just the sweetest little girl in the world. She's only 7 but damn is she smart. She was talking to me about Darwin the other day (which made me super happy considering biology is one of my favorite things to talk about.) She absolutely adored my ex, which is another thing I'm ouchie about. I could tell she was disappointed when I showed up to Thanksgiving dinner without him. Hey, at least that Thanksgiving got me a free camera from my Aunt (who never liked my ex anyway XD).

I usually don't enjoy socializing and big parties, but I always love going over to my cousin's house. Another thing I look forward to is the huge family Christmas party every year, the day after Christmas. So many relatives show up, I don't even know half of them. I'm so glad I've finally graduated from the children's category - the kids have to put on antlers and bibs and sing Christmas songs to entertain the older folk.

If there's one thing everyone in my extended family has in common, it's a love of food. So I always enjoy stuffing my face with amazingly awesome Christmas foods and such. It's so nice compared to my daily college meals of easy mac and ramen.

Well, I'm off now to a friend's Chanukah party. What is a Chanukah party? I have no idea. I know it's Jewish and there will be free food and games. That's all the reason I need to go!