That Was The Worst Christmas Ever!

While I am giving myself permission to be a total downer in this post, I feel compelled to point out that this entry title is also the title of my favorite Christmas song. Depressives unite!

Sigh.

I knew this was going to be a weird Christmas because my brother had to work, but my mom refused to let the day go unacknowledged. So I went to my parents' house this morning, where we had some waffles, opened one present each, and spent the day watching movies. All pretty low-key, but it also just felt plain WRONG, with my brother not being there, and me feeling so incredibly depressed about life in general.

In order to lighten my load a bit, I had given myself permission to text my crush (we've been friends for years, so it's not that weird and stalker-y, I promise). I was pretty proud of myself too, because I thought I'd come up with a pretty funny little joke...

Q: If the Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist's father was an alien from the planet Pandora, what would that make him?
A: FLEA'S NA'VI DAD!

Get it? Anyway, he reciprocated the "merry Christmas" and that was that. Then Facebook told me a bunch of stuff I didn't need to know, my mom put "Serendipity" on (if there's one thing I can't stand right now, it's a stupid romantic comedy), and I decided it was time to come home.

It also rained ALL DAY.

When I got back, I went to the gym and ran for an hour, just to try and get all the frustration and sadness out. I don't know if it actually worked, or if it just translated all my emotional pain into muscle soreness.

Have to get up early tomorrow to go back to my parents' house where they're hosting dad's side of the family. I am so incredibly tired of having to seem cheerful.

Sorry I'm so whiny. I've been trying not to write anything at all lately, since I knew I had nothing positive to say, but today was just too darn much. Couldn't keep my mouth shut. Oh - and this picture is a road near my home. I live very near a large mall, so these streets have been crammed with cars for weeks; it was creepy seeing them completely deserted tonight.