Holidays are going well. Visited NYC but spent more money than I expected, though. Also spent some time with my relatives, which was nice. Will be heading back to work for new year’s Eve, but that’s fine. Overall, it was a nice and fun trip.
It has been great! First holiday season away from my family as a newly minted expat, but I’m lucky to have four/five other couples from my home country going through pretty much the same thing, so we’ve been each others support . Me and my partner are positively surprised at how well things have been working (mostly)!
I had a good Christmas. Actually got to have a Christmas with my family this year. Last year, I got caught up in that Southwest Airlines meltdown so I didn’t get to spend it with my family. I avoided that this year by flying Delta down to my folks (and SWA did have some issues in the run-up to Xmas again this year due to weather at Chicago-Midway causing some chaos across the SWA system). Still flew SWA home; in fact got home about 30min ago.
Debating whether to go see my friends later today. It’s a 5hr drive and basically today is the only day I can go, and then I have to be back by Friday night. It’s currently 3:30a here. So if I decide to do this, I’d have to leave by noon at the latest. So we’ll see how I feel in the morning.
Nothing big planned for NYE. Probably just get a bottle of champagne for myself and some Chinese takeout, as usual.
Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays, got some time off, and some time for R&R, too!
My 2 cats have finally started playing! One is like 6, the other a kitten, and they’re both good and friendly cats and were just taking time to warm up to each other. I heard growling and expected a fight, but saw them on the floor playfully tussling! they’d get up, chase each other, tussle a bit more… I had a royal bastard of a cat for the longest time, and am happy to finally have cats capable of being friends! Fingers crossed that they cuddle properly in the future.
My first holiday season after going no contact with my parents. I spent time with my wife and her family and many cousins who love me! It felt safe and warm to be surrounded by people who actually like me— really feel like I made the right choice this year!
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