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[Rolan7]

Chatting with people who either aren't visiting their parents this year, or need emotional support to get through it. :hug_emoji_goes_here:

I did my duty the past week or two, so no guilt this year.  I even had fun seeing people   Honestly it wasn't even onerous for me this time!

Spoiler: CW uh, panic attack/social exhaustion I guess? (click to show/hide)

much less, like, completely shutting down under a blanket and letting my phone die

Social interaction has been remarkably less stressful for me this year, heh.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(It's the HRT.  The HRT is making it easier on me.  Only one person bothers to use my pronouns but I feel so much better for being open.  I'm the bigger person for tolerating them, and HRT gives me the spoons to do so.)

I always hated this holiday so much, and I think I was justified to feel that way, but we're taking it back bay-beeee!

[Vector]

Our contract was ratified on the night of the 23rd, so I emailed bosses telling them I would start researching again on the 27th, had a glass of wine and cried for a while, and then on the early afternoon of the 24th I sent out an email warning everyone's faculty supervisors that they couldn't retaliate against us if we rest today and tomorrow in light of our not yet having a back to work agreement, and my mom and I screamed at each other until 2 in the morning, and then I cried myself to sleep with a splitting headache.

Both of my parents are, as usual, talking constantly about death, which I really wish they would stop doing but as I have a habit of doing this too I am aware that it's a sign of trauma that I should probably just not take too seriously. They did come and clean the entire house and yard which was unbelievably nice of them, and which I couldn't do because I'm being treated for numerous post-COVID nutritional deficiencies and am nastily anemic. I'd been needing to go back to sleep for hours after washing part of a sink of dishes.

Today the fog is too heavy to drive and see our abusive relatives. We're putting together a salmon dinner, lighting candles, and having a movie and some board games. My mom is anxious and upset that we don't have decorations or gifts but, well, ... it would have been a very small Christmas here or there, hardly anyone was going to come.

I'll sit and read Detransition, Baby and pet the cats ...

[Sirus]

My family and I saw Violent Night, this year's new Christmas movie and basically "Die Hard but with Santa Claus". It was, as indicated in the title, quite violent with Jolly Saint Nick beating stabbing and slashing various goons to death. And yet somehow he still maintained a sort of "Santa-y" attitude throughout, basically doing it all to save a young girl and her family from said goons. It probably won't win an Oscar but it certainly wasn't the worse film I've ever seen.

Dinner was Korean-flavored BBQ. Untraditional as heck but very tasty.