Yes, it is 1 in the morning and yes I rarely have trouble with sleep. But there are some nights where something just says "Right, you're not sleeping tonight". It's usually on sticky hot nights like tonight. But it's a bit more than that; I just feel generally restless and uncomfortable. I hate it because I am actually really tired but sleep just will not come. It's very frustrating and I am glad I don't suffer from insomnia and have to put up with this every night.
Well it's a few days off from another new year. I always get very excited and hopeful around this time. Christmas, although it has some really nice things about it, frankly, on a whole, does not do or mean all that much to me. Sure it's fun selecting the perfect gifts for my family and I even appreciated the soft colourful lights of the Christmas tree and candles accompanied with some carols in the background on Christmas Eve; but I detest, like passionately hate, the commercial sceptical the holiday has become. Apart from a few beautiful ones, Christmas carols usually get to me; the way they are playing everywhere, you can't escape them. There are millions of other things I could list but I'll just leave it there. I don't want this entire entry to be on how Grinch-like I have become haha. I can execute an excellent 'BAH HUMBUG'. However back to the reason I bought this up. I don't particularly care for Christmas but New Years Eve holds some kind of magic for me. There's something so heart warming and special about being with the people you care about most, frocked up, welcoming in the first few seconds of another year. As opposed to Santa Clause or Rudolf, in a way I do believe in that idea that the people you are with on New Year's Eve are the ones you'll have close for the rest of the year. My family and I are going to spend a few days at the property we're fixing up at Gympie and 2010 will be bought in at Noosa beach somewhere. I absolutely love that place, I could very happily live there. It will be so good to go back there again as I haven't been all year.
In reflection, this year has been so amazing and I want to do a particular post on it tomorrow but for now I'll just catch you all up on a really nice Christmas. Kirsten and I went urgent last minute present shopping and got some really nice things for our families. I am sure I briefly mentioned this but anywho – I only ended up getting something for my sister because nothing was good enough for my parents and I did not want their gifts be some cheap $10 thing. I got my sister a book on the weird and wonderful stuff inside the world of astronomy which she is very interested in as well as a Lush bath bomb in 'Sakura' scent (Cherry blossom). I am planning to get my mum a piece of jewellery and my step dad a Fleetwood Mac music DVD (which I secretly wouldn't mind watching either). On Christmas Eve during the day my mum and I spent a crazy amount of money on food for our Christmas dinner and lunch the next day. Then we got home (after some drama which I won't go into) cleaned up the place and started spreading the Christmas atmosphere around the house. There were some nice carols playing on the radio as we all sat down to a vegetarian roast which I loved even when I did eat meat but Bob had a piece of real roast rather than our fake yummy one haha. The next morning we all woke up fairly early (my mum had a few really beautiful expensive gifts from the families she works for sitting under the tree so she was as bad as a five year old ^^ - it's so so good to see her happy again). We all sat around the tree, including the cats funnily enough (they got new food bowls!) and spent the next hour opening them up. I got the New Moon soundtrack, Wanted on DVD xD a beautiful necklace and my favourite T2 tea from my sister. My mum had gotten me, as an early Christmas present, my new phone (Nokia E63), a (pricey) dress I have wanted from Mombasa for quite a while and a new bag for university. But I also got a beautiful little denim shoulder bag, which was kind of from Bob as well as a gorgeous hairclip and cookie cutters – which I have been hinting at for ages now haha. It was a totally perfect Christmas for a Grinch like me. Just simple and beautiful.
Boxing day my mum and I decided to brave the psychotic shoppers and see if we could get some bargains while visiting my sister at work. I can not believe how capable and professional she looks in her store, I was quietly very proud of her. My mum and I found this very cute denim skirt in Sportsgirl that amazingly does something for my figure (this is a first in light coloured denim skirts), a big, sun combating but still beautiful hat from Myers (ONLY $20!!) as well as one of those environmentally friendly canvas bags from Sportsgirl as well (only four bucks) and a white flower hair clip from Diva. It was a really productive day shopping wise. My wardrobe is finally stocked at least until I can buy my own pieces that catch my eye. Speaking of I start work in a few weeks!! In case the punctuation marks didn't indicate – I'm very excited to start earning money and working with one of my best friends.
Actually – I'm finally relaxed enough to sleep I think,,, so I'll post this along with a 2009 summary, thankyou's etc. before sleep leaves me again. Goodnight xx D
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