highs/lows of christmas

Posted: December 29th, 2024 | Tags: Uncategorized | No Comments »

just gotta recap so that i don’t forget ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! ! all things considered it was a pretty good christmas?

HIGHS

• my sister’s wedding reception at LORO — the best food, best staff, best dancing, best guests, just all-round best time
• spending the night at the hotel with linda and sisters — taking a bath and watching hallmark movies and going to bed at 9:45PM!!!
• falling asleep to brooklyn 99 a few nights in a row
• izzy putting on her princess dress immediately after opening it on christmas morning
• our christmas dinner at leo’s — was so perfect, cozy, fancy, delicious. drank a glass of champagne, didn’t overeat, felt delighted.
• all the wild kids
• NO HEADACHE FOR TWO WEEKS, IS IT THE SALT IN MY WATER???????
• my striped sweater going strong
• trying those two bakeries mentioned in the ny times
• walking the memorial park kinder land bridges (and prairie!), straight up PERFECT
• watching the beyonce half-time show at mom’s, such a regular kind of event that we haven’t shared in a long time

LOWS

• taking Mom to the E/R (but in a somewhat high — we were at the memorial hermann trauma ER and we saw people being lifeflighted in [gunshot wound, motorcycle accident], which was SO intense, but it also made you feel…alive, weirdly. can’t explain it. also it really did feel like the tv show ER.)
• barnaby’s, so MEH
• montrose neighborhood in general — surprisingly too edgy for me? we saw someone peeing ON a car one morning (!) (in the morning!!!), there was lots of random screaming at night, someone hit our car with a cane when ross was driving, etc.
• our airbnb in general was pretty sub par, even though grateful for beds and heat, etc. etc. have new theory: airbnbs should be nicer than your own house or at least like a top-notch anonymous box

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