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chironcentaur

The Holidays

Nov 29, 2009 16:11

Thanksgiving morning, as Renee and I were leaving to pick up our dinner, on our door step I find exactly ten pennies on one step, lined up very neatly very deliberately left there, and on the next step down there is a key, duplicate car key freshly cut ( Read more... )

holiday, coincidences that aren't, sleep, hermes, yule, obligatory turkey dinner day, plans, health, odin, family, girlfriend

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chironcentaur November 30 2009, 12:52:34 UTC

I won't have to deal with stress and sickness from no sleep, you won't have to deal with orange satin blouses and velor track suits. What more could we ask for! <3

erl_queen November 29 2009, 22:55:53 UTC

Sounds like it's for the best if you skip the Christmas visit, good thing to be taking care of your own health. I hope you can manage a visit off holiday season.

As for Yule, I'll be interested to know what you end up doing. This will be my first Yule really focusing entirely on Germanic customs (and not trying to smoosh Rural Dionysia into it - instead we'll be doing a separate Dionysos holiday at New Year's). I'm excited for it, I love all the Yule traditions.

chironcentaur November 30 2009, 12:49:52 UTC

With some more planning, a visit might be possible. There is a Red Roof Inn that is technically within walking distance of my mother's house, only its next to a highway off ramp and along a major road with no sidewalks; walkable in spring or summer maybe, in winter when everything will be snow and ice, not a good idea. And when the only person currently home all the time with a car has an infant and a three year old she'd have to pack up and bring with her to drive up the street and pick me up, transporting me to and from isn't an option right now either. Though that may change at some later point, who knows. Here's hoping ( ... )

gallows_queen November 29 2009, 23:32:41 UTC

That's pretty cool about the pennies and the keys. :) And under the circumstances, it does sound as though skipping the Christmas visit is the best choice for a number of reasons.

chironcentaur November 30 2009, 12:42:33 UTC

I was much easier when my old bedroom was still available. They were using is as a storage area so I'd have to move piles of crap out of my way to create a narrow path to my bed, but it was still my bed and my old room and my body recognized it within a couple of hours.

Now my old bedroom isn't mine anymore, and last year I got shuffled into a very small room off my nephew's room; it was private but I didn't have a really bed and everything was ridiculously cramped, so I got no sleep and was sick when I got home. This year, even that small room isn't available anymore.

The sleep disorder means that I have to have a list of conditions met in order for me to sleep comfortably, and that is doubly important when I'm not in my own bed because I always have problems in foreign places. I wish I could just crash on the couch, it would make life easier, but it just doesn't work that way.

Yeah, it is for the best. And besides, now I get a chance to work on my own traditions. :-)

lorele November 30 2009, 00:23:16 UTC

Actually, I've always been under the delusion myself that my body has a 26-28 hour day. As in, non-24.

This is interesting to be aware of. I have always wondered why, when I had no specific work schedule or such, I would really slowly shift my sleep schedule by an hour or two every night -- but I would try to force it longer. And I would use my bedroom with my computer as my sort of isolation chamber.

This is REALLY interesting.

Perhaps it's related to Hermes' gift in relation to dreaming, sleeping, and waking.

chironcentaur November 30 2009, 12:30:56 UTC

While I'm not going to say for certain either way, I really don't think this is the problem you have. Because you said it only occurs when you have no work schedule to adhere to; if you had the problem I do, it wouldn't matter it would happen anyway. If you have to get up the next morning, however little sleep you got the night before, my body doesn't listen to me. This interfered with school, made it impossible to keep a job, because I physically can not maintain a regular schedule.

I have wondered before sometimes if this isn't a mark of Hermes some how or another, but I would never refer to it as a "gift." Even if it has been twelve years now and I pretty much know how to deal with it, it still has such an impact on my life that is rarely positive. I miss out on stuff that I want to do, the slightest upset in my routine or if I don't have a whole long list of sleep essentials met and then that all goes to hell, and it impacts my health in more ways than I can even name.

theophania November 30 2009, 17:09:52 UTC

I seriously can't understand how or why people go to see family members whom they don't like just because it's the holidays. I mean, it's supposed to be a time of loving, giving, or at the very least, enjoyment and good food. So what's the point in anyone going to a place that'll make them miserable? I do hope that you get to see the baby soon though, since you said you wanted to. Getting ill totally isn't worth it, so I hope you can find a nice way to celebrate and/or relax this season.

chironcentaur November 30 2009, 20:19:34 UTC

Well, I do actually want to see my family. I do get along with them so much better now that we don't see each other so much, you know. My wanting to end the Christmas visits has a lot more to do with what an expensive ass pain Christmas travel is; when I went up there in the fall a few years back for a wedding, at a time when everyone and their mother wasn't traveling, the cost of a train ticket was over a hundred dollars less than what I spend at Christmas (and not nearly the same travel crowd either ( ... )