Quiet Christmas with Devon
Dec. 27th, 2015 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
juushikaAfter my melancholy Hanukkah, I wasn't looking forward to Christmas and really didn't want to make the exhausting journey home for it. So instead, while Dee was way seeing her family in Seattle, Devon came up, Christmas Eve through Boxing Day. He brought me socks and a Moleskine from his parents, stable but beloved gifts, and a Shield Tablet from him, which means that I can play Android games now, which is effectively a whole new platform and super exciting. We made ever so traditional Christmas hot dogs and nachos, watched Red vs. Blue, and he played a lot of Fallout 4 streamed onto the big TV downstairs so we could sit stretched out on the couch-turned-bed.
In other words: the inverse of traveling and family, local and cuddly and content. He's not able to come up much, and it's easy to forget how stressful trips down can be—I love to see him, but his living situation is less than ideal and causes a lot of background anxiety. But this was perfect, just us, in a safe clean quiet home. It put to rest much of my seasonal angst (although I do eventually need to make a journey home sometime to deliver gifts that I haven't yet even picked.)
In other words: the inverse of traveling and family, local and cuddly and content. He's not able to come up much, and it's easy to forget how stressful trips down can be—I love to see him, but his living situation is less than ideal and causes a lot of background anxiety. But this was perfect, just us, in a safe clean quiet home. It put to rest much of my seasonal angst (although I do eventually need to make a journey home sometime to deliver gifts that I haven't yet even picked.)
