it's been a while since i've blogged and i'd like to say that it's because i have a lot going on, but in reality, i have nothing. well, nothing aside from the dreaded christmas shopping... i thought i had SO much accomplished. and for boyfriend, i do. although one of his gifts came in the mail today and i'm not so confident it's going to fit him but i can't send it back for another size b/c it's more of a one-size-fits-all type thing so... we wait. till christmas eve most likely because per usual, boyfriend and i have yet to have christmas on actual christmas. okay wait. i take that back. Five years ago, circa 2007, boyfriend was a recent college "graduate" (i use the term graduate loosly as he walked in 2007 but finished up in 2006. this is actually important to the story... read on). he was working at the jail then for his dad and then bam... time for a new job. the reasons behind needing the new job stemmed only from a new mayor in his city of (at the time) dwelling... so long story short he gets an interview with a new company doing something that's pretty far from what he has a degree in but... at the time, he had just had an interview with the company and it happened to be close to where i was living. we had been "together" (again, using the term loosly as for quite some time we had yet to DEFINE the relationship) for almost 6 months and for some reason, i suggested that he move in with me. i was living in a semi-crappy place and my room was rediculously small with a side room that basically held all my school crap and extra stuff (i was well engrossed in grad school at the time)... so i suggested he move in. he said he would think about it and we kind of left it at that... as it was our first christmas "together" we went our seperate ways for the holiday. i was still required to work holidays so i worked christmas eve and headed back home. because i had to work the day after christmas, i ended up going back to my apartment that night. a few hours after my return while curled up watching tv in our rediculously small living room that slanted and that we couldn't really do much in, the door opened. now, looking back i probably should have been scared but it could have only been 2 people... boyfriend or my at-the-time roommate. so it's boyfriend and in he walks with a suitcase and a few boxes of dvd's and cd's... move in day = christmas day. i have since come to find out that he really never talked about moving out of his parents house, he just packed up and on christmas night, came downstairs and when they asked where he was going (it was christmas afterall) he said he was moving out... nice move, boyfriend... so that night, we exchanged gifts on christmas, bearly... but since then, we haven't been able to. we were living half-way between both our families and have done our best to accommodate both sides, respectivly. it's harder to accommodate his family as they are quite large on both his mom's and dad's side and they have festivities for each side on christmas eve and day but we have made it work, somehow managing to appease everyone. lucky for me, boyfriend has great parents who are really understanding about holidays and i too have a pretty good set of my own who are equally understanding and accommodating... present opening has ranged from two nights before christmas eve to the night after christmas, with nothing falling specifically on the holiday itself.
cue 2011...
thanks to my sister's work schedule, we will be celebrating actual christmas with my parents on christmas eve... and given that we have relocated closer to them, we can actually go home after the festivities and wake up christmas morning at our own house. yes, we have to get up super early to head east for christmas and YES, we will probably end up opening presents from each other on christmas eve, but we are making progress... someday soon, we'll actually open presents on christmas.
please don't think i'm angry about any of this... it has made for some funny nights, and some really funny wrapping jobs. and we can always look back and say "remember when we opened presents 2 days before christmas eve"... it also eliminates boyfriend being in the store on christmas eve. finally though, for the first year, we both have christmas eve off. i won't get my hopes up that it will happen every year, but it's a start...
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