Busy Christmas

Well the last few days have been really busy.  I spent Christmas eve/morning at my bf's parents which is just over 200kms from our place.  It was a bit crazy, I find I like spending time with his side but there is always just too much drama there.  He has 1 older sister, 1 younger sister and 1 younger brother, everyone is totally cool with us and we get to be ourselves there, which is one good thing.  His older sister is a bit on the crazy side, she has a kid that just turned one, for whatever reason she is chasing after this guy that clearly doesn't want to be her bf, just fuck friends and he treats her like shit, but she still thinks he can do no wrong. Oh yea, he isn't the babies dad.  The younger sister also has a kid, he's just over two and she is engaged to the guy that fathered the kid, and she just found out last week she has kid #2 coming, and she just turned 20 recently.  And his brother is a nice enough guy, just not the sharpest tool in the shed, his gf is really lazy and whiney though.  Then his folks, nice people, just very different from my folks.  Everyone on my side has post secondary education, both of my brothers have their masters, my mom was a nurse and my dad started a very successful wealth management firm. On his side only his older sister finished high school, and even that I have zero idea how that happened. So yea we had very different upbringings that can make things difficult at times.

Back on track, so we do the Christmas morning thing and lets just say it took about 3 hours, there were many breaks, a few arguments, and lots of kids opening presents.  I say that because myself I got maybe 5 presents, my bf got like 7, and the rest got anywhere from 15-20, esp the kids, they must have gotten like 30 each.  Now dont get me wrong, the reality is I could care less, for me it's about being together and celebrating the birth of Jesus, the presents are just added bonus, but I did feel slighted.  I know my bf was really upset, we both spent a fairly considerable amount of money on them and really we got shafted.

We decided to head back here to spend the rest of the day with my family, where we enjoyed an awesome dinner and had a blast.  I know one of my presents my folks got me was worth more than the combined total of what I had gotten earlier, same for my bf, he was really thankful for it.

Next day we head off to a few malls for some boxing day madness, and it certainly was.  I couldnt believe the lines for some of the stores, I got a few things and we went back and ordered a bunch of stuff online, take that lines :)

Well I gotta fly, I got off track ...again, I know :) I have 3 more hockey games to referee tonight, it brings my total to 16 over the past 3 days, my knees are killing me.