Burrito West Blog

Today was my last day of work for 2011!  Yay!

Peter and have an inherent incompatibility when it comes to the holidays (I say  holidays rather than christmas because I'm not into the christ and figure I'm doing the pagan/secular version).  Anyway, the problem is this: Peter prefers to ignore the holidays right until the last minute, and then have a big day and enjoy the week or two after. I feel very strongly that once the holiday is over, it's over - and trying to celebrate it after the fact is just... weird, and I can't do it. Things are made worse this year by the fact that Peter is going to Poland with his family for Christmas (they're catholic so it's capital 'C', full meal deal Christmas), and he'll be crazy busy with work right until he leaves. He's thinking we can celebrate when he gets back, but - see point above about how that doesn't work for me. So that's kind of a drag, but, you can't have everything!

Anyway, I'll be on my own for the holidays, which will be an interesting experiment.  My friends have been fabulous and I have offers to join several family dinners, so I'm pretty sure I can keep myself occupied.  We'll see how it goes!

Unrelated and random: I've never purchased a set of towels in my life. I went away to university with 1 towel, then my mom bought me a set, then Peter and I combined our university-era towel collections, then we got hand me downs from Peter's family when we moved to Vancouver. So we have a hodge-podge of rather old towels (many of which are pink even though I hate pink).  Out of the blue the other day, Peter and I bought a set of fabulous bamboo-cotton towels at a mad discount. Seriously, they're awesome.  I'm very much looking forward to dropping off our very old towels at the animal shelter and never seeing them again.

Sometimes it's good to spend money on yourself.