Christmas 07

Yup, its mid January and I am making a post about Christmas.  Although this whole blogging thing only takes a couple of minutes, its appears as though I'm too lazy to move my fingers and type a message, and that's why I don't have too many posts.  Perhaps my New Years resolution can be making an attempt at keeping up with this.

At first, Christmas looked like it would actually really suck.  First off, we were initially told that we would not get any time off for Christmas, but then after doing some nagging, we managed to get a week off, after Christmas. We also got Christmas Day off.  Likely only because its a national holiday and we have to be given it off. Thus, I worked Christmas Eve, and Boxing Day.  Quite similar to my days at Casino Nova Scotia, but less depressing because I wasn't swiping peoples money, and Christmas isn't that big of a deal here.  It did suck that I wasn't able to call in "sick" to work on Boxing Day, like at the Casino and attend the Capitol for Middleton's one and only exciting night of the year. Christmas Eve involved getting drunk, and Christmas Day involved laying around hungover and opening a couple gifts.  

Did I have a Turkey Dinner?  Fuck no.  First off, we don't have an oven at our apartment.  We have a small stove, with two gas burners.  Second, I don't know how the hell to cook a turkey or anything that goes with it, and third, I don't know that you could even buy a turkey here.  All my students laughed at me when I asked them if they were going to be eating turkey.  Sooo, what did I have for Christmas Dinner?  I made a trip to the Homeplus food court, and had some spaghetti, chicken, salad, corn and cream soup.  This may sound fancy, but its far from it.  You would think that the place would be dead or not even open considering it was Christmas, but it was packed with families.  Nothing like a beautiful food court meal for you and your family on Christmas.