The past is a foreign country; They do things differently there.

The holiday season has been nothing but snuggly. There really isn’t a better word to describe it. It’s been raining quite a bit and the only option to really combat that is by hugging something warm and napping on the couch. Snuggling.

The past 2 weeks have been a flurry of activities. Alan came home for Christmas, followed shortly by Dana. We’ve had 2 picnics so far, one comfortably on the floor of his parent’s apartment due to incessant rain and the other, at the barrage park where we escaped more rain, just in time. We’ve spent an afternoon preparing some delicious cookie dough and eventually baking it into even more delicious cookies.

I hosted a very random movie marathon + Kinect games party for some of my friends on the eve of Christmas Eve. 18 people all crowded in the living room while it was raining outside – quite snuggly I would say! Ended off the evening with Love Actually, cleaned up and snuggled in to welcome Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve was spent braving the crowds at Vivo City for some last minute shopping followed by even MORE last minute shopping at Mustafa Centre that evening. At least the gifts were very well received!

Christmas Day itself was a very lazy affair. Alan and I only crawled down to the living room past noon and we all settled in for random hawker fare that my mother brought home after Christmas mass. Matching leather jackets for all and this Alien baby (even though I’ve been using this for a while now and have since completed Portal and Magicka).

Following their celebrations, on boxing day instead of Christmas day, Alan’s family and mine met up for some nommy dim sum and us children went on an expedition for ice cream! The crowds were quite insane.

This monotonous account of my week aside, my Christmas has been exciting and very, very, snuggly. I had the opportunity to spend it with two amazing families; Alan’s family who’ve so warmly accepted me in and of course, my own, dysfunctional yet all round loving one. At this point, life is good.

Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you guys have an awesome one.
♥