Christmas In a Foreign Land

[wigglewhiz]

This is NOT a depressing post. It's not, it's not, I promise. Or I don't mean it to be. It's just a navel-gazing post, as most of mine invariably are. OK, as ALL of them are.

Comments

[wigglewhiz]

HEH! That was awesome!

I thought the fight clip might put you out of your misery. How about this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZWaWrvJ7nA

It features the Start Trek bellydancer! w00t! (Uh... apologies if you get that Ke$ha song in your head though. worth it for the LOLs, IMO!)

[suzycat]

I TOTES understand. Even we have issues with summertime Christmas in some ways, with, as you've seen, that crazy doubling thing where it's summer and we know it's summer but we have movies and cards and carols and cheesy American Christmas songs (not the same thing) and even FOOD CHOICES that are all "dashing through the snow on a one horse open sleigh!"

And I also know what Christmas in the Wrong Place feels like. It feels WEIRD. Next Christmas will probably feel less wrong. But it won't feel like Christmas is supposed to, no matter how many nice times you have and how many people are pleasant etc. It can still be good, but just different. I had four Christmasses in London. One of my favourites involved me being ALONE BLESSEDLY in our house and having tomatoes on toast in bed in front of the telly before walking down the canal to my friend's house. NONE of them had snow either. SWIZZ! (My dad informed me that even in Norn Iron in Anciente Tymes they didn't always have snow. DOUBLE SWIZZ!)

In conclusion, non ((((HUGS))) hugs.

[wigglewhiz]

We had white/snowy Christmasses reasonably often up in Teh Frozen North, but not guaranteed every time. Even though I had a few messaged from peeps back home, all: "We haz a glittery snowy Christmas!!1!" I didn't feel terribly left out. There was a moment of "Awwwwwww, I'm missing snow!"

Which was quickly replaced with: "And I'm missing -18 at night! FUCK THAT!" So, you know... all things in moderation? ;o)

[suzycat]

Some people do a midwinter Christmas here. It's still not Christmas but you get to do the dinner properly at least.

[kinadancer]

hugs hugs hugsies!!!!!!!!!

For me, Christmas just feels like another day. At least, now, it feels like a day I get to spend with people (mostly) that I care about.

Not being around people you love the most I think is horror inducing, especially when we have little choice about it. Even if the people you love are horror inducing every other day of the year :-)

not that your's are, of course, just making a lame point.

[wigglewhiz]

LOLs - I know exactly what you mean!

YAY, moar hugz! ^_^