Merry Happy :)

It’s Christmas Eve, 6:22 pm as I start writing this.

It’s been raining on and off all day, pretty much dashing any hopes we had for a White Christmas. There is a rumour, though, that there might be flurries tomorrow morning. That’s better than nothing. What’s ironic (if I’m using the word correctly, which I’m probably not) is that Rob’s parents in Newfoundland have informed us that they have tons of snow there, with more coming, and my family in PEI had a snowstorm a couple of days ago.

It’s our first Christmas away from our respective families. I thought it would be incredibly hard– I mean, Christmas is a time for family. And yes, it has been a bit difficult, thinking that I wouldn’t get to see my nieces and nephews opening all their Christmas presents, to see my one-year-old nephew experience the first Christmas that he’d be aware of. My parents are used to having at least ten people around their table and this year they’ll be two people short. Rob is an only child and his parents are going to have that one empty space in the house. So yes, it’s difficult that way. We are both missing our families and that’s not going to change. But really? I would rather spend Christmas here with Rob than to be in PEI without him. He’s my heart and I am so happy to be spending our first Christmas together.

SEGUE FROM THE SAPPINESS!

We went to finish our Christmas shopping yesterday. It was actually pretty okay — I mean, places were crowded, but I never had to stand in line for longer than 4 or 5 minutes. Rob and I went to the Halifax Shopping Centre at about 11 yesterday morning. Since the vast majority of our remaining shopping was for each other, we decided to split up, shop on our own, and then meet in an hour at the food court. I have no idea how things went for Rob, but everything went well for me. I managed to find just about everything I was looking for and get a smoothie while I was at it.

The only stupid thing that happened was when I was in Coconut Creek. I had just chosen what I was going to get for Rob and was looking at something on one of the shelves. I was standing in front of the shelf, looking at the little dragon statue thing that was there. There was plenty of room to go around me, both in front of me and behind me. A lady walks up to me. Doesn’t say “excuse me”, doesn’t say “Could I please get in front of you and look at that?”. Nope. She just basically shoulders me out of the way. Yep, you got that right. She pushed me. Then stood there for like, half a second, and walked away. I just called out after her “Merry Christmas!” and went up to the cash.

After Rob and I had met up, we left to go home and I ended up sleeping for a couple of hours while he puttered around and did some giftwrapping (have I wrapped anything yet? No… hey, it’s only 6:39! Why worry?). Later we went grocery shopping and had a whole adventure with choosing a turkey and trying to find all the things each of us need for Christmas (I like REAL cranberries, he likes the stuff in a tin). Rob’s parents had also sent another box of gifts, including some ornaments for our tree and a tupperware container of DELICIOUS shortbread cookies.

So now we are watching the Jimmy Kimmel Holiday Special. Flavor Flav is making me very happy with his Flavor Flav Christmas story.

Also. I sent many many cards out this week– if yours hasn’t gotten to you yet, give it time. I’ve also received a few cards and wanted to say thanks to everyone who sent us one.

And with that I will begone. There may be blogging tomorrow but probably not… so Merry Christmas to all of you. I’m going to snuggle with my handsome boy now.