Phew, unlike last year, when Christmas and Boxing Day were
pretty miserable rotten days for me, this year around, they were much better!
Christmas Day: yay, the day began with another awesome sleep
for me the night before: I bid Daddy Bear sweet dreams, fell asleep and didn’t
wake until 6am .
Breakfast is also fancier than normal: instead of the plain
porridge with one slice of dry (unbuttered) toast torn into it, dad had taken
home this lil pastry thing from the Christmas party he and I had attended the
night before at church and mother lemme have it for breakfast! Yummo~
Then, as traditional for every Sunday probably even since
before I was born, we attended church. Unlike last year, BCAC wasn’t holding a
Christmas service; I’d asked two people from SIC (Southside
International Church Antioch International
Church Redeemer Lutheran
College
So that’s where we found ourselves, bright and early come
Christmas morning, coz their service started at 8am !
Originally, I’d grabbed a seat for myself at the most left hand side of the
room, because post-disabling injury that the cruel and unfaithful God so
wantonly smote me down with in 2007 the loss of all my left side side vision is
one of the numerous physical disabilities he’s abandoned me with and whenever
I’m seated somewhere that others can be more left than me I feel nervous
because I simply can’t see them. (Even though it’s highly unlikely that while
you’re @ church someone will just leap out @ you from the side and rip your
head off. XD) However, somebody had placed it just so that a fan was blowing
directly at my head; perhaps I’ve somehow developed a sensitive head post brain
injury because I ended up having to scoot further along the aisle until the
fan’s winds could no longer reach me. Of course, trust mother to bitch at me
sth stupid that I didn’t get up and walk sideways to my new seat but I simply
didn’t see the point, because unlike BCAC where we have individual seats, the
Redeemer ones are just one long pew that I simply scooched across! Oh, and
apparently ‘scooch’ isn’t a word? Dunno! XD
Think the Redeemer church is called sth like Our Hope? They
have a really long bulletin; ‘twas pages long! Mother said our church was more
environmentally friendly, because our church just gave an online version.
Thankfully, the parents lemme stay seated for the worship
songs. I’ll admit I don’t really understand why we’re invited to stand for
worship; I mean, will God hear us better from heaven if we’re like 1.5m higher
than if we sang while seated? Obviously, we sang only Christian carols but I
was expecting that, which is why for the car trip to Redeemer I sang a litany
of four secular Christmas carols: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Jingle Bells,
We Wish You A Merry Christmas and the first five days of The Twelve Days Of
Christmas. I’m presuming I learnt that last song back during primary school,
because I have absolutely zero idea how the sixth day and onwards goes! XD
I was really surprised when the speaker was a guy called sth
like Mr. Klienschmidt, coz I remember that was the name of the headmaster when
I went for a scholarship interview back in the year 2000 for Grade Eight! Wow,
I graduated from high school THIRTEEN YEARS ago and he’s STILL there; gosh, he
must be part of the furniture! XD
There was communion after the service (of which I sat out
coz I haven’t been baptised yet) and that was it. Originally I was like, “I
need the bathroom,” but the parents insisted I wait until I got home.
And that was it, basically. We got home, I used the loo, I
popped online (‘twas only mid-morning thereabouts). When mother tumbled
downstairs from her long morning nap (which had stretched into the afternoon
coz ‘twas about 2:30pm ), she fed me
lunch of last night’s leftovers. So rice, lotsa vegies and a lil meat.
More computer time for me after that. Post disabling brain
injury that the cruel and unfaithful God so wantonly smote me down with, mother
for some reason only allows me two hours per day to spend online. Luckily, I
found something else to occupy my mind with after these most important two
hours of my day are up: I found a site where I can watch the first season of
the Good Doctor on! I’d seen the previews before the show started but
unfortunately the episodes were airing on my small group night, meaning I
couldn’t watch them. Can’t remember why I forgot to tape them, but no biggie
coz I found an online site that streamed the series! So ‘twas all in all quite
a pleasant arvo for me~
Late afternoon/early evening sometime, mother tumbles
downstairs from her afternoon nap and boots me off to take a shower.
Dinner’s served after that; just a quiet one between the
parents and I. No guests and nothing special for dinner. In fact, it was so
ordinary I’ve already forgotten what we had for dinner that night. XD
After dinner, I continue watching episodes of the Good
Doctor. I’ve almost finished Season One; just one episode left!
And that’s Christmas 2017! Just a nice quiet one this year~
Before hitting the sack, I wave goodnight to our Christmas tree and all the
presents stacked underneath it, telling them I’d open them all toms!
Boxing Day: awesome, I begin this day with another awesome
nights’ sleep; even better than Christmas, coz this time, I bid Daddy Bear
sweet dreams, fall asleep and don’t wake till 6:20am! When mother comes to hit
me with the eye goo I immediately sit up, give her a massive hug and burble
happy birthday; Daddy Bear and Juice (the two teddies that currently share my
bed with me) throw themselves at mother and do likewise. XD
For Boxing Day, dad took us to hit the sales at the
Hyperdome! Yes, I will always have a soft spot for the Hyperdome because it’s
the main shopping centre I grew up with; back when my parents and I were still
Bogans living in Logan Brisbane
I was interested when we entered that I didn’t recognise
where we were; turns out the Hyperdome had had an upgrade and now boasted a new
wing! I was very impressed~
Dad immediately headed for one of his favourite stores,
Rivers, while mother said we’d go to Kmart. There, I scored first, when I found
this adorable lil pink blanket, rolled up and with a bunny face! Mother said I
still had a lil red pocket money left over from the beginning of the year;
that’s what I bought! I’m particularly fond of bunnies because I was born in
the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit, see.
Dad bought himself a pair of slippers; for lunch we shared
Japanese chicken rice (kaarage for me, sweet chilli chicken for mother) and
some roast meal dad got from Bucking Bull. They shared a Coke; I just drank
water coz I got dropped on my head as a baby (true story!) and don’t like soft
drink. XD
And that was our shopping done for the day! At first I was
like, “Err mother, did you get anything?’ She was like, “Yeah! When dad was
buying us lunch and you were minding our bags I ducked into the pharmacy and
bought stuff!” Oh, good; we all bought sth~
Same with Christmas: after getting home, I use the loo once
then pop online; mother immediately hits the sack upstairs and dad starts
whipping up dinner for mother’s birthday party!
Like Christmas, after I’ve enjoyed my most important two
hours of the day online, I immediately resume watching The Good Doctor; when
mother awakens from her arvo nap and boots me off for a shower, I comply before
returning to continue watching the current episode.
Then, ding dong! The first of our night’s guests arrive;
it’s Aunty A! Mother mock-wibbles @ me, “You see, if we’d invited Aunty A over
and she knows nobody else’s coming, she’ll ‘punctually be a lil late’ (that’s
Aunty A’s trademark saying in Canto XD) but coz she knows there’s other guests
coming, she’ll arrive even slightly earlier and dress up for the occasion too!”
XD
Aunty Catherine, Uncle Calvin and Joey arrive soon after;
I’m immensely relieved that Joey’s come too coz it means I’ll have some company
tonight and won’t be bored outta my wits. XD
I invite Joey to drag over a chair and continue watching the
current episode of The Good Doctor that I’m on; I ask her would she like me to
restart the episode from the beginning so she knows what’s happening? But she
says nah, don’t bother.
When dinner’s called, I pause the episode, use the loo once
more then join the table for dinner.
Woo hoo, dad’s outdone himself! There’s one really long
steamed fish, Chinese mushrooms, vegetables, chicken and prolly other things
I’ve forgotten, too! Personally, I’m just saying winner winner chicken dinner
because mother even lemme have SECONDS that night; unheard of! XD
Thanks to the Kwoks who brought mother a birthday cake from
the cheesecake shop, even though it wasn’t a cheesecake! I mean, it’s good and
all that the Cheesecake Shop is branching out and selling other varieties of
cake, but shouldn’t there be some stipulation that you can only buy a different
cake only after you’ve bought a CHEESECAKE?? XD
After munching a wee tiny slice of mother’s birthday cake,
Joey walks over with me back to our Christmas tree. We just sit and chat, until
everyone takes their leave around 9:20pm .
One more loo trip for me, then I can FINALLY open all my Christmas presents! :D
I’m particularly happy with the Nesquik cereal Samuel Enderby bought for me;
see, mother?? Somebody DOES read my blog!! XD (Mother always jeers that nobody
ever reads my blog coz I’m so bloody repetitive; I’ve explained to her before
that I keep a blog for myself, just to note down the day’s events lest I
forget. See, one of the many disabilities that the cruel and unfaithful God
abandoned me with back in 2007 was short-term memory loss; should I not note
down what happened during the day, I’m liable to simply forget. That’s my daily
events blog and I’m not after readers; I’m just happy to discover that people
do read my special events blog!) My other favourite present’s this medium-sized
teddy that comes with a nametag; saves me the trouble of having to come up with
a name for him (for some reason, nearly all my teddies are boys XD) myself.
And that’s Christmas and Boxing Day over with for 2017! Just
waiting for 2018, now~
Next post here … well, it’s gotta be my reflections for
2017. However, be prepared that they may not arrive till 2018, especially if
dearest dad takes mother and I out somewhere to welcome in the new year!
Although considering there’s thunderstorms forecast for toms night, perhaps
not… Anyways, until then~
Cheers,
Em. ^^
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