Dec. 24th, 2005

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Back in Ormstown for a bit, with my parents and siblings and my sister's boyfriend, who's pretty much a permanent presence here now. The place is full of cooking smells and holiday programming on the CBC (Quirks and Quarks answers questions for Christmas, Sook-Yin plays cheesy classics, ...)

Things are pretty calm here, we're trekking up to my cousin's place tomorrow for the big feasting part of Christmas, clean white snow is on the ground, and we're getting the hang of being a little prepared.

[livejournal.com profile] gregorama's festive games night was lots of fun. Sorry I couldn't carry [livejournal.com profile] dzuunmod's Trivial Pursuit hand to victory... gotta get the sports question before handing off to me next time. The food, games, talk and general minor scandalousness were much appreciated.

Last night was the Avalon Singers' Christmas concert, my mum took Ellie and me to see them. Parts of it were echoes of first-year for Ellie, and Charpentier's midnight mass was familiar to me (from trying to help with Ellie's Lorem Ipsum Mass last spring). There were some really good moments in the performance, and a familiar face from Ellie's choir days (shipped out by the choir director at the last moment to replace one of the locals). It was a short trip out, but I was really happy that my mum invited us out for that. Logistics was a bit hairy (and my heroic sister un-haired some bus-related confusion) but to share some holiday-ish time was really good. What crimps there were (and an increasing desire to put back in to the transport generosity pool) are more incentive for me to get it together and get a driver's license this year (not a resolution, but a good idea). Meanwhile (and always), I am a seriously lucky boy to have the family, friends and beloved that I do. Ellie and I unwrapped our gifts to each other last night: I now have February-worthy mitts and am entitled to some shiatsu attention from [livejournal.com profile] aeon_of_maat, and Ellie has a pretty pendant in a cute box to re-turquoise her, and some voyeuristic transit reading in the form of Found. I'll miss her over the holiday weekend while she's in Ottawa... but I'm happy we carved out some time together.

I hope everyone reading this has a good holiday weekend, celebrating or not.

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