It’s Christmas – and I’m pretty sick. That’s so typical of me, getting sick in my holidays when I’m actually supposed to relax. When I woke up yesterday, I could only whisper, but since I had an important appointment that day, I fed on cough syrup, cough sweets and tea the whole morning. It was a little better after that. And this morning I woke up pretty early, at 6am, and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I thought I might as well give a life sign again.
It’s actually the same as last year. I’m still not particularly fond of the whole Christmas fuss, some people would probably be right to call me a Grinch, and the past few days have been quite hectic. This year was last-minute Christmas shopping – I usually hate that, because everyone, in all shops, is so hectic about basically everything. However, I got the last presents yesterday and after a long, brave fight with wrapping paper (I suck at wrapping presents!), they are all – more or less nicely – wrapped up and covering my floor. At least those I need to have this evening.
I’ll spend today, Christmas Eve, at my mother’s, just like usually; this time, however, I’ll go there a little earlier because I want to help her with the cooking. My mom’s the best cook ever and I guess if I help her with it, there’s a lot I can learn from her. =) After dinner (we’ll have Turkey!) we will throw dice for presents; the tradition I’ve introduced at Christmas some years ago. Everyone gets a dice, the dice are thrown in turn, and when you get a 6, you’re allowed to take your first present. When you get the next 6, you’re also allowed to open it.
That makes Christmas much more exciting than the usual opening of presents is. And it takes quite a lot of time, too.
Apart from that, I’ve been able to deal with a few things I had to do, but always avoided to do, so that now I’m moving a little forward, speaking of some mental things. But things are also getting serious by now: we got our reports last Friday, and now only the pre-final exams (and my last Spanish exam) are left – and then it’s getting really serious. I still have three presentations to prepare for sometime after the holidays, and I am also supposed to continue the timeline I’m doing with Sonja for History.
There are only a few months left until my very final exams and somehow, I don’t seem to be able to catch up with most things. Everything’s going by in such a rush, there are so many things to do…
Unnecessary as it was, instead of trying to relax at least the first few days of my holidays, I sat down Friday, when I came back from work (I give private lessons four times a week), and set up a long, long To Do list, which is kind of demotivating to look at. But I managed to cross out quite a few things already…
Anyway. I basically just wanted you to know that I am, indeed, still alive, even though I’m rather coughing all the time. I think I’ll make myself some tea now, and then, perhaps, I’ll get back to sleep – or at least trying to. I usually can’t fall asleep again once I’ve woken up properly.
And I still have to read “Moon Palace” for my English course. Anyone there who has read it? By now, I’m not really enthusiastic about it…
Merry Christmas to all of you!
