On Christmas!?
The audacity.
On Christmas Eve I played Monster Hunter Now and Animal Crossing and opened one gift, the one with the wrapping paper I liked the most.
I open one gift on Christmas Eve, this was something my family started because as kids my brother and I convinced our parents that it would be more fun to have an appetizer present the night before. They used to designate a few gifts that we could choose from so we'd never pick the "main" Xmas gift. Now I open a gift from my bestie because her gifts are always delivered early enough for that.
This year I did good and sent my gifts in time to get there on time. Not all of my cards. I'll post about that later. Anyway, this little blind box Godzilla was the greatest Christmas Eve gift I've gotten as an adult.
I settled into a few movies, I went into Tubi recommends and picked the ones that caught my attention. I liked "Finding Mrs. Claus (2012)," it was charming and magical and absurd so I loved it. Then I watched "Tinsel Town (2025)," also unexpectedly ridiculous. It was difficult getting into the mood for this one, I watched a bit and then had to restart and try again, but then it was easier to get into and so fun. I topped off the Christmas Eve movie trilogy with "Christmas Trade (2015)," a straight to video freaky friday scenario between hot-shot lawyer father and his 11 year old son. It was a solid 3 star movie and I enjoyed it.
I started Christmas morning sleeping in, eating well, then on the couch with the rest of the gifts I had at home. Zenny and I cuddled on the couch while finishing out my scary Christmas lore audiobook.
We always want to be lazy together all day but we do a family hang on Christmas where we open gifts, eat, nap or talk or play with new toys, have dessert, start a movie, and somewhere in there slowly trickle out to go home and feed pets. This year we also did a virtual chat with family around the country which was really cool, I hope that becomes part of our holidays in the future.
It's a nice time for a family of introverts who are happy to meet and hang out but also wanna go home soon. 🫶
We started "Oh. What. Fun. (2025)," which I've already seen, but I still finished the rewatch when I got back home. Then I did "Goodbye June (2025)" knowing it was going to make me cry (it did). The main feature which I'd been looking forward to all day was "Werewolf Santa (2023)" and it was fun, though not the Christmas tree topper of the season that I was hoping for. It was still pretty rad so overall five star Christmas movie season.
Holidays make it easy to be grateful in a snapshot for what my life has become. There have been many struggles and it still isn't very easy but things are great sometimes.