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December 26, 2007

A very awesome Christmas

I woke up about 30 minutes ago, on this nice calm boxing day morning. Miranda’s sleeping all cuddled up in bed and I’m sipping down a coffee, reading some blogs, planning some ideas.

Christmas this year was much different in many aspects. First off, it was my first away from home, and secondly, I had a very loving girlfriend to share it with.

On Christmas eve, we had dinner at my parents house. Surprisingly, Miranda tasted all the odd foods we have for our traditional Polish dinner and she actually enjoyed most of them. Fuck Borsche soup, I will never have it.

We got home back to my apartment after hanging around for a few hours talking, playing, etc and we couldn’t resist to open our own presents. In my family, it was always presents on Christmas eve, but in hers it was always one present on eve, rest on Christmas morning but I guess she broke those rules.

She got me a cool assortment of apartment goodies to make my place look more awesome including this neat candle-mirror-wall thing. Got a K-NEX Rollercoaster set which is just freaking awesome, a very nice and soft bath robe, a ton of chocolate (that I can actually eat) and other small goodies, but most of all .. I got love, which is the most important thing

For Christmas dinner, we had it at her step mother’s sisters house. Dear god, it was so cookie cutter. It was your typical 2.5 children house hold. It wasn’t so bad, but I felt like I was in a T.V show the entire time I was there, probably because my family is so different. To be fair though, Miranda had the same thoughts as me as soon as we got into the car she was laughing hysterically yelling “FINALLY someone understands me!”

Now it’s boxing day, and we have one final family dinner on her dad’s side. Their family is cool, very relaxed, more like the way I was raised, but still have manners, and those few special moments where everyone tries to be semi-serious.

After that, it’s a bunch of parties, lazy mornings, and hanging out until January 2nd when the holidays end.