well i made it through the holiday party, sweethearts. i actually had a very fun time this year, once we got past the obligatory awkward cocktail hour.
the drive up was ridiculous. apparently PA is worse about cleaning roads than WV is. granted, we took every backroad that google maps could throw at us, but, we made it. and then after winding our way through the resort to find our room (i still yet to know where the starbucks is that is supposedly by the elevator that supposedly would take us right there) it was smooth sailing. we stayed in a different part of the resort this year, which meant only 1 king size bed instead of 2 in each room. but, it was still ridiculously nice and it was so pretty with the christmas lights and the greenery and snow.
i had a good time this year bc i actually know my coworkers better and could enjoy myself. i won a very snazzy, very overpriced nemacolin sweatshirt that i am enjoying as we speak. and obviously my favorite part of the evening was dessert. needless to say between the open bar at the party and then going to the tavern til 3am with everyone, my world was a little spinny by the time i finally got to bed. but! i can proudly state that even inebriated i could name over half of the russian royalty (if you will) painted on the set of nesting dolls on display. nerd? umyes.
so yes. after making it home i took LJ out to lunch for dogsitting and for getting my tree out of the building. i hadnt mentioned this, but i had decided not to put it up this year. i just didnt see the point since i dont have anyone to enjoy it with. but after waking up to the snow yesterday and thinking about things and what i care about and what ppl care about for me, i decided that maybe if i put up the tree there will be some sort of christmas magic in my life, one way or another. so LJ and i put the tree up and decorated it this afternoon (btw never leave him in charge of lights, bc he wont take the time to untangle them but instead will just throw them in a bunch in a lower corner and call it art.) so after he left i laid under the tree for a little while, listening to judy garland wishing me to have myself a merry little christmas, and smelling like maple syrup. (oh yes. at lunch today i managed to sit in a ginormus pool of syrup. and stuck to the chair. embarrassing? myes.) and it was just a nice moment. i need little moments i think, to keep my chin up.
all in all, it was a good weekend. i got blue a couple times, like when i stood out on our balcony in the middle of the night watching it snow and be beautiful and christmasy. and the drive home was beautiful bc even though it was backwoods fuckery of a road that we had to take a run at 3 times, the snow on the trees and the farmhouses all decked out in their bows and greenery, it was both beautiful and lonely.
much love to you readers. i'm glad you're there for me.
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