The Coming Holiday

Well it's been a fairly busy last two weeks in my life. Work picked up pretty nicely aside from this week. Fifteen hours is pretty unheard of to me in the business of the holiday season. Oh well though, gives me time to relax and catch up with my hobbies and life.

These holidays are coming up a lot faster than I could have imagined. Just to think that Thanksgiving is Thursday is pretty surreal. As of the last five or six years my holidays have been pretty absent. After the falling out of my mother's side of the family we haven't really done much at all in celebration. I wish there didn't have to be any kind of family drama bullshit in any ones lives. It's just so unnecessary, so simple to just leave out. Then again I suppose the more you know about someone the more bad you can say about them, and who supposedly knows you better than your family.

This year I spend my Thanksgiving with my lover's family. It'll be nice, it'll feel like home. Thanksgiving hasn't ever really been a major celebration in my life, we'd gather and eat, it was always fairly awkward, and always uncomfortable. Celebrating with my mother's side of the family wasn't very desirable. There are only a couple of them that I can really stand, the others are crazy, trashy, or just malicious. Her family should make me feel like I'm having a nice Thanksgiving. They're very family oriented and nice. It'll be nice.

I have a lot to be thankful for this year. It's been a vast improvement over the last two. I'm thankful for love, for happiness, for comfort, for my life. It's been a long grind so far and that's not changing too soon, but at least I know it's gotten better and it keeps getting better.