Christmas

No matter how I tried to spin it, last year's Christmas over here sucked. I had to work (like today) and other than come candies to give to my coworkers and some lights on my desk I didn't do much. That night I had dinner with a friend and two coworkers.

Earlier this week I prepared a small post that was pretty sad in tone (lamenting that I really didn't feel in the spirit). The stores and people here don't really do Christmas beyond using it as an excuse for commercialism and playing poor renditions of good Christmas songs.

But over the last week that attitude melted away; thanks to the ladyfriend. She was the one who hauled me to Carrefour to get get Christmas decorations--it was at that time a 6.8 earthquake hit Taiwan. She was also the fire under my ass to get things up and decorate my place.

In the end, I caught the bug and got into the spirit this year, in large part because of her infectious enthusiasm for Christmas. Hell, I even went to Mass last night.

Merry Christmas to all of you who still read this thing.