A Less Than Stellar Christmas

I don’t want to be bitter, but this was a pretty sub-par holiday season.  I was booked off of work from the 23rd of December until the 3rd of January, but to get the disappointment started, I was given a bunch of work on the 23rd right before quitting time that was due on the 3rd.  I started getting sick around this time, too.  My last couple days of work I was so tired I barely made it home.  We decided not to exchange gifts this year, so there was a weird giftless vacuum Christmas morning.  Our dinner plans for Christmas fell through at the last minute, so we wound up staying home which upset a certain member of my family who was a little pissed we didn’t come to his place.  In reality, we were doing serious basement renos and I spent Christmas pulling down drywall.  I even came to my turkey dinner in work clothes covered in drywall dust, possibly asbestos-laced.

The next day I was sick as hell but we had people coming over, so I had to stay upright as much as possible.  The angry family member stood us up to get even, and it snowed really hard which sent the people who did show up home early to avoid getting in snow mayhem on the way home.  On the 27th I went out to do some of the work I had to get done, but I was so weak and miserable not much got done.  I had to read some water meters, but the side streets were icy and the meter lids were frozen shut and buried in snow.  The next day I tried again, but this time I bailed out after a few hours and went to the doctor who said I have bronchitis and assigned me some holiday mood killing antibiotics.  Our computer guy informed us about this time that our hard drive was dead and several years of family pictures and 1,000 or so songs had been erased.

The next couple days were a blur of sleeping, waking, taking medicine, and feeling like crap.  On New Year’s Eve we drove 50 km or so into South Surrey to a party, but it was snowing heavily and the road crews were off getting pissed or something because no plowing or sanding was going on.  For the three hours we spent eating fancy pickles and playing parlour games, we spent about four hours or more driving.  Today I’m feeling much better, but it’s a holiday and a Sunday, and other members of the household are now sick so it became another sitting around staying quiet, bored out of my tree sort of day.  Tomorrow is my dad’s birthday, so a bunch of us are gathering to wish him well.  This will likely be the highlight of my eleven day winter oasis.
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I referenced our basement renovation earlier.  We have the walls vapour barriered and framed, and some of the laminate flooring is in.  What we lacked at the start of Christmas was electrical work and drywall.  Our foolproof plan was to have the electrician come over a couple times to get his work done, then have my brother in law come over to help us insulate, then the drywaller guy was scheduled for the 29th.  Ha!  Our electrician cancelled a few times, then came over briefly, then finally came back for a full day, but this was already after the 29th and I think the drywaller has given up on us and moved on.  My brother in law could have come over to help insulate today, but he was called in to work because of the snow, so that is off.  I doubt much is going to happen tomorrow, so the whole project has fallen at least a couple weeks behind in just a week and a half.  Let me say, I’m not angry about it with anyone, but the destruction we are living with is disheartening, especially when everyone is sick.  As I write this, I can hear my daughter’s boyfriend coughing up a lung downstairs.  He has the family plague, and if anything gets done tomorrow it will be with us tippy toeing around his sleeping carcass.

Happy 2017!  Last year ended badly for me, but I feel things are likely to improve soon.  I am worried about the new year, but often what you’re worried about never happens.  I hope this is true of 2017.  A rich biker gang has taken over the US presidency, what could go wrong?

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