Not the best Christmas Day ever

[simont]

It's nice to hear that pretty much everybody else seems to have had a good Christmas. I, unfortunately, did not have a good Christmas, because I've spent most of this week basically incapacitated by flu.

So my Christmas Day largely involved me sitting on the sofa watching DVDs I'd seen before and trying not to move too much. The original plan had been that Mum would come to visit and I'd cook her a big Christmas roast dinner; instead, she came round and cooked me a small and inoffensive omelette, which was about all my beleaguered metabolism could cope with.

That made yesterday the first Christmas Day in my whole life (at least since I was old enough to remember them at all) which didn't involve some sort of appropriately Christmassy celebration. I feel surprisingly unhappy about that. It's not that anything's actually been lost, as such – Mum and I plan to have a postponed celebration at some later point once I'm well. And it's not even as if I've gone without Christmas dinner so far this year: I cooked an early one for Dad a week ago, and the Gallery did its usual excellent one the week before that. But, somehow, it isn't the same.

Comments

[fluffyrichard.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that. Louise and I didn't have a normal Christmas either, for similar reasons: we're well, but her family who were meant to be visiting have been incapacitated by flu in a similar way. Instead we had a nice quiet day in front of the fire, with a brief gap for a walk, and a normal dinner. We've postponed Christmas proper until Sunday, and are now putting up more decorations, and pretending it's Christmas Eve tomorrow.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I'm sorry you've had a miserable Christmas. I hope you get lots of other wonderful festive days ahead, which may not make up for it but will hopefully be splendid in their own right. I am looking forward to seeing you at new year's eve.

*more hugs, and get well soon wishes*

[simont]

*smile* I'm looking forward to seeing you too, although I warn you that on present showing I might still be a SNUFFLING SNIFFLETRON FROM THE PLANET SNOT by the time NYE rolls round...

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

It's a three hankies a day kind of snot, at least, be warned. Also it makes your ears bunged up, but it helps to lie down and hold something warm over them.

[scribb1e.livejournal.com]

meh. Get well soon.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear you're belurged, get well soon! We won't be in Cam for New Year this year but we'll pop round sometime in January to prove we still exist ;-) xxx

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

That's all woeful, and did make me go 'awww' out loud sorrowfully, but am mostly left wondering what constitutes an offensive omelette. I mean, one with gluten in, in your case, presumably, but that doesn't stop one imagining an omelette with 'SCREW YOU!' spelled out in melted cheese, or a frowny face made of mushrooms or something.

[simont]

When I called the omelette inoffensive, I was mostly thinking of the fact that the ingredients in it were all nice and soft and easy to swallow – no big lumps of meat, for instance, that would have required me to chew competently – and also nothing likely to give me indigestion, in the mundane rather than coeliac sense.

But I like your idea better :-) An omelette in the shape of a V-sign, perhaps.