I blinked and Christmas Day passed in a blur. It was a flurry of motions, leading up to that day, what with us juggling work, planning our office activities, and generally getting into the mood of the season.
In a nutshell, December saw me at ZillerNet torturing myself sweetly, trying to wrap my tongue around foreign words and hurting my eyes from 'attempting' to read Kanji....(well, I cheated, most of the time)...sampling a couple new restos and vowing to make it a part of my not-so-structured routine...
Our office had 2 Christmas parties, the first one at a reservation park type with these middle-aged folks acting like kids, and the actual younger ones just laughing at their antics. Afterwards there was a bowling tournament, second half of which I had to skip out on for reasons I am not about to disclose. (Kuya Ric: Mam Almay's team, which included Kuya Bong, Lala, Ate Racquel and Tita Claire won in a sweep! You should've seen the look on Sir Tony's face!)
The next party was an all-nighter (yet again) at the private vacation house at Rosario. Again, it involved the old-er ones making utter fools of themselves. I had a problem with my jaw the next morning, more from laughing too much. Really. There's a thin line between respectability and hilarity; our superiors are masters at crossing that line time and time again.
This year, I decided to do something different for my birthday. In the past, they were more private affairs, with my immediate family together, and my closest friends pulling an allnighter at my place with a video marathon or something...This time I thought, why not go out of town, or something? So there was this small resort outside the city, called Riverview....and I told my folks a month ago that I wanted to go there. (Our high school class is planning to have a gathering of sorts at the same place anyway, so I wanted to hit two birds with one stone.)
The next thing I knew, cousins and nephews and nieces heard about it. What the whole thing ended up in is a children pool party. Right. A twenty-bleep girl with a children's party. And it doesn't help that 'Addee and Mama were acting like kids as well.
Define "festive", then. December 24 and 25 were brief respites from work; Christmas. I lost a lot of sleep from doing marathons of......BLOOD+ and half of MONSTER. Festive enough? *heckles*
Merry Christmas indeed!
I leave thee with a pic of my godson, Ronn Marius Gabriel. SMILE FOR ME!!!
