i finally felt christmas yesterday.
it started with a bottle of vintage red wine on my desk – covered in dust, from the cellar.
then a huge box of cookies and gifts from my mother arrived (i really only like the ones with jam in the middle.)
then some money finally came in the door and so i got a paycheck. yay!
and then i got a gorgeous sunset to mark the days definitively getting longer.
the mailbox held a thoughtful holiday card from a friend i haven’t seen in a while, warming my heart
and then instead of going to the gym we went out to dinner in Jack London and they have it all decorated up with a big pretty christmas tree in the middle. why can’t the lights stay on the trees all year? they can take the holiday parts down. but i think the lights should stay.
we had a nice dinner and some drinks and then some more drinks and the evening rounded itself out quite well.
i might even get uncharacteristically festive this evening and head out with all the drunken santa clauses for the Oakland version of SantaCon, although i’m more of a Sugar Plum Fairy type myself.
happy holidays, y’all. i know i might be kind of a grinch about the way it all rolls out sometimes, but in the end i’m all for celebration of life and creating light in the darkness.
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