
Before Christmas itself I managed actual proper dates with both
And
Then in the evening we joined
And then yesterday was my birthday; I ended up organizing a party more or less at the last minute, but loads of excellent people turned up and I had a completely awesome time. I was particularly pleased because my parents and Granny joined us for the first bit of the party, and my partners and their younger two had arrived early to help us set up, so that made a really good and hopefully low-pressure opportunity for family-of-birth and family-of-choice to get to know eachother. But anyway, just as I'd hoped various people showed up over the course of the afternoon and evening, and there was loads of good conversation, and I more or less managed to balance my time between talking to my adult friends and paying attention to the children.
I've also done ridiculously well for presents this year. I got Triominos and some dessert wine and a huge box of fudge and some gift tokens for chanukah, plus a visit from my loves so I could have time with them without needing to travel. In spite of that, Andreas insisted on giving me a toy motorbike for Christmas as he felt sorry for me not getting Christmas presents. And for my birthday lots of books from
And time. People are making a special effort to spend time with me because it's the season of my birthday, and it's making me extremely extremely happy.Basically I want this to be my life and not just a special couple of weeks at Christmastime; I mean, I want a job, holidays are only fun for so long, but I would really like to be in Cambridge full-time so I can be with my people and not be constantly pushed for time. I will see if I can make that happen in 2016.
I prefer comments at Dreamwidth. There are currently