So I guess it comes with it being the day, Merry Christmas to all!!! I think many people picked up on it, but for me personally, it didn't have the same vibes as it has before. Normally, I wake up and actually think, "Oh my gosh. It's Christmas Day!!!". Today was more like...
- wake up, yawn. Another day, here goes
- the gradual crawl out of bed
- knee joints feel arthritic
- sleepy eyes happen to see the teddy reindeer bear that i opened the night before (it was an accident =D)
- Hey... is it Christmas?
I should be excited, right. Maybe it's because I used to get more presents and the fact that we used to go to more family barbeques. But it's just not the same. I did go to a really fun barbeque last night though.
I didn't know anyone, at all. I spent the first hour or so sheepishly following my mum around eating stuff. The people who were closest to my age were these people in their early 20s. My mum forced me into socialising with them by offering me to help them on the barbeque. They turned out to be really nice except they kept calling me Linda and I really couldn't be stuffed to correct them, also out embarassment. So, here's to me being Linda in the eyes of three people on this world.
I actually found myself laughing with them even though I couldn't really communicate much. Well, I could because they could all speak and understand English except they were talking to each other in Cantonese and didn't reaise I couldn't speak until ages later. Anyway, we had heaps of fun trying to write XMAS with sparklers with other people taking photos. It took us ages to get it rate but we got it, eventually. The first time, we realised we had to do it back to front and that none of the letters were actually letters but a general scribble. The second time, the guy on the end was doing his 's' the wrong way so it looked like XMAZ. THe third time, my a looked like an o so it was XMOZ. Then the fifth time, we finally got XMAS.
Then we tried to do shooting stars with a heart in the middle. There were two peopel doing stars, with two other people doing the line for the shooting star and the guy in the middle doing the heart. It ended up looking like two stars, a heart and a general cafuzzle of scribble on the ends. It was pretty hilariouis =D
Anyway, here are my two fave Christmas songs:
It's kind of weird to like a Christmas song sung by an old man but ti's really pretty. =D I'll probably never have a white Christmas though =(.
This is a version by Celtic Woman. The only part I don't like about is the American accent of the first woman. I love the Drummer Boy. It's got a soft rhythm that goes right through you.
My teddy reindeer bear says Merry Christmas :D
