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Another One Came And Went Well I thought after writing up a rant, I would reflect on Christmas after the madness has died down. Yes, on Boxing Day. And to keep in with my original rant, I have decided to reflect on the same information that I disclosed earlier in the month.

Cards
I only bothered to send three cards - to my parents and grandparents. I got the same amount back, so that's nothing to worry about. It would have been awful if other people had sent me cards, but they didn't so things are looking good there.

As for electronic greetings, I think I sent about 40 and received less than half back. I couldn't be bothered to count. Oh well, thanks people! I feel a little down knowing I took some time to find a greeting and most people couldn't be bothered to even just e-mail me back and say "Thanks Rach. Merry Christmas! Have a wonderful 2003!" Never mind, I tried.

My grandparents were the only people who sent me Christmas Cards, and I only sent them cards so things are good there as well. Thank you!

Maybe next year I will send proper cards to everyone - to those people I have addresses for, let them know what I'm up to. I would have just finished my first three months at college, so should have plenty to talk about. But as I write this, I don't know that many people's addresses. People may have moved from where they were two years ago. Do I really want to waste money on sending cards that have a unknown probability of reaching the receipent? No!

Sing-a-long-Songs
Well I did get into the mood of listening to my favourite seasonal songs. They did make me feel happier. It was almost as if I was back home in Cornwall as I listened to them. As I previously said, Canada doesn't have a tradition of the songs that I know and loved, except for "Last Christmas". But as I listened to this song, it doesn't seem to be exactly the same song that I listened to on Christmas Day 1999. I wonder why. And I discovered that Savage Garden recorded their own version; that was played several times as well.

Remember I was talking about the alternative 12 days of Christmas? Wicked song! I tried to write down the lines, but they went so fast that I couldn't try. But I did a search and found Bob & Doug McKenzie's version. However, I can now tell you that there aren't presents for the whole 12 days; they get bored of doing it, and they scrap presents 9 through 12.Here there are:

* A beer in a tree

* Two turtlenecks

* Three French toast

* Four pounds of back bacon

* Five golden toques

* Six packs of two-four

* Seven packs of smokes

* Eight comic books

I feel I should give credit to Mr. McKenzie & Mr.McKenzie for the above information. I gathered my information off the site "The Real Forge"

Presents


In my original rant, I placed presents under Christmas songs. Don't know why I did that, but never mind! The only thing I can add about presents is that I did manage to get my Dad something in the end! I talked to my brother, and he agreed that he would get me something for Dad when he visited the big city. And he did! Thanks little brother!

Ooooh, and Tina: I will get around to giving you your present when I'm in town tomorrow with my dad hopefully!

Weather


If I had been writing this ten days ago, I would have told you that we had a very small amount of snow; defintely nothing compared with what we had last year for Christmas. But over the course of the latter part of the week before the holidays started, the snow fell and we got another foot of snow. Reasonable temperatures for the whole month of December - around the low-mid minus single to high teen digits.

As for my family in England - they received a cloudy and grey day. It begun to rain when I was speaking to my Gran during their afternoon.

Memories


Traditions were broken for a third year. Not with my family though - you'll recall that I said they were out on Christmas Eve, but not this year; they had Chinese at home. Ooooh, lucky souls! As for me, my family and I were invited out for supper with friends - it was a lovely evening and we didn't get home until Christmas Day morning!

I woke up early as always. The radio stations weren't playing decent music so I listened to the foreamentioned songs. And it seemed to me that the same adverts/commercials were being played constantly; it began to drive me mad!

We had a variety of phone calls from across the world. Its nice to hear people on the special day of the year. But it makes me miss them.

Before I get carried away and sappy; may I take this opportunity to wish you all a happy new year!


Last updated: April 3, 2005