Christmas 2025

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Let's see. As usual, we celebrated Christmas Eve by gathering at 4 pm, posing for photos with the tree and the cats, then opening gifts. We had a big difference this time, though - S joined us! I've already told about my main gift from J (along with books and other fun things); my main gift for him was a sparring katana I ordered for him from a forge in Bratislava, and it will take 5-6 months to arrive (but it's what he wanted). Our main gifts for D&S were complicated, because they were PS5 games but the PS5 was a secret gift from D to S (and himself) that she didn't get to open until today, so the games had to wait for today too. They exchanged gifts in the morning, then around noon D went to visit his dad; they watched Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. D&S then had lunch and came over for stockings at J's house plus the PS5 gifts, arriving around 3:15 or so. We chatted a while after that, then they headed over to S's mom's house for a video call with her grandparents in Florida, and I went home to make Christmas dinner. J and D then came over for that around 6 pm, and we had a fun conversation that culminated in quite a long discussion of regional and generational differences in word use. Then D went home to relax, and J and I went to his house, where we read while listening to quite an impressive wind-and-rainstorm outside. Several hours later it had morphed into the type of thunderstorm that rattles the houses, but things are calm now (around 2 a.m.). I'm tired!