Looking back, looking forward

[zouzounaki]

So, here I stand at the end of my first holiday weekend in our new apartment. It's not the first year to celebrate a holiday without my parents (my dad was in hospital this time last year) but it is the first that I felt I've truly broken away from that life, which is both a good thing and extremely sad.

Though I'm happy we got out of that house, that horrid house that was supposed to have harbored so many good memories, which became a prison in the past couple of months. Halloween seems like it was ages away when it wasn't even a month ago, like it was a different life, which it actually was.

Everything was relatively quiet, my brother and sister-in-law went to her parents' for Thanksgiving, so it was just me and my sister (and the dogs, natch! ;-)) and I'd say it was a pretty ripping start to a new life! We even went out shopping on Black Friday and found a fake tree (had real ones all my life; I'm so spoiled. But in an apartment, this just seemed more practical. And it's Martha Stewart which we got for half off (!!!) because it was Black Friday, and it took about as long to put up as merely bringing a real one in would have!). Christmas shopping is done, decorations are up. I'd say that things are definitely looking up!

Peace, Ghani

Comments

[may-child.livejournal.com]

Congrats on your first holiday in your new apartment!

I have a small fake tree that my mom gave me. I'm afraid that if I put up a real one, my Tim kitty would chew on the branches.

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

Can you believe we got a 6 1/2' pre-lit tree for $60?! Yeah, I now know why people go out on Black friday though it was still an ordeal! =-O Pre-lit! Damn! It used to take me two hours just to get the lights working and on the tree if I was lucky! And I walked to school 2 miles in the snow everyday. Okay, that last one isn't true ;-)

I'm afraid that if I put up a real one, my Tim kitty would chew on the branches.

Oh, the pine smell'd drive him absolutely bat-shit! It's like catnip, to my cats at least! =-O

Ho ho ho!
Ghani