Happy holidays!!
It's Christmas Eve and I am about to go to church with my family (not that I'm really religious or anything, but I always go to spend time with my family). I just wanted to write a little bit to recap how my vacation in norcal has been so far.
Friday Dec. 20th
This was kind of a wild day.. It was officially my first day of "break" after I got off of work. I headed to the Irvine house to pickup Winston and get all of his things. Jazley said she would be home at 8, so I planned on waiting until she got home to say goodbye before I'd leave. She got caught up at her show, so I left home to pack. Ritney asks me if I could take her to her friend's house at 9:45P. I really didn't want to since I still needed to pack and I wanted to sleep before waking up at 2:30A, but I said yes anyways. Needless to say, I didn't really sleep until around 11:30P.
I woke up at 2:30A and was waiting for Ritney to get home, but she didn't get home until around 3:00A and when she did, there was no way she was getting in the car to drive up to norcal. It was pretty frustrating since I wasted a bunch of time waiting for her. I just left anyways, I had my own schedule that I needed to stick to.
I got to Jimmy's place at around 4:00A and waiting outside for like 30m since I don't have a phone to let him know I was there. I ended up just ringing the bell and waking everyone up anyways...
Saturday Dec. 21st
these two days were pretty much blurred together into one. we got to tracy around 10:30A and needed to kill time until we were going to pickup Reina and head to Neil's party. We had a blast at Neil's, I haven't really been able to drink with any of my friends from Tracy in a really really long time, so it was super nice to be able to hangout with everyone in this kind of setting.
Sunday Dec. 22nd
This was a really long day as well, we left to SJ around 11:00A and picked up Yessi and Kristie before heading to smoke eaters for lunch. There, we met Jake and Luis and had a pretty chill lunch. I'm glad everyone got along since I was bridging like 3 different friend groups...
After that, we metup with Margaret & RJ (kristie's friends) and went off to karaoke. I had a pretty good time at karaoke and would have been content calling it at that. Somehow we ended up at a soju bar after karaoke. I was pretty much done at that point and just kind of wanted to go home. I was pretty much exhausted at the end of the day.
Monday Dec. 23rd
Yessi's first time in Tracy! She even got Jimmy & I target gift cards and my mom flowers. This was totally unexpected and I feel like I still need to make it up to her. Anyways, we were able to drag Jai out the house and get lunch with Mikayla at la costa (i still need to go back and buy at least 5 burritos).
After that, we stopped by Neil's and then went to pickup Nick and head on over to Chad's house. It was really nice being able to hangout at Chad's place like old times and play board games/shoot the shit. After that, we hit up 7/11 and got dinner with Daniel before calling it an early night.
Tuesday Dec. 24th
Today was a pretty lazy day. My biggest regret is not starting Christmas shopping earlier. It also really sucks not knowing if Ritney will be able to make rent. I would like to be able to get more presents for my friends & family without worrying about having to pay double rent this month.
And then here I am. Blogging in bed with my cat. I facetime'd jazley earlier to talk with her and winston and i got the feeling that the holidays were getting to her.
I know the holidays can be extremely tough since it's a very social season. Jai sent me a text from shabbi asking why people always wanted to hangout on christmas eve, because dont they have families?
This one touched a little personal to me. A lot of my friends don't have families to spend the holidays with or don't have the relationship with their families to be together and enjoy the season. Idk, i just thought it was an incredibly insensitive question.
Anyways, it is really hard during the holiday season. I think this is my first christmas alone (without a gf) in like 6 years. And if i'm being honest, it's kind of difficult not having someone to share the holiday with. I can only imagine how jazley feels since she clashes with her family quite often.
final thoughts
i am incredibly blessed to have everyone in my life: family, friends, cat... they're really what holds me up and keeps me going. also, it is hard for me to see people i really care about having a tough time during the holidays. since, for me, i normally have a great time reconnecting with old friends and celebrating christmas. what i'd like for christmas is to be able to share my blessings with everyone.
merry christmas,
kenny