Happy Holidays!! I hope you all had and/or are still having a wild and woolly holiday season!
After all the fun and excitement of our big gay wedding, we opted to take it pretty easy this year by cuddling up in our apartment with our turkey and our dog and basically doing fuck all. We had a magnificent Christmas Eve dinner and a delightful, languorous, unexpectedly snowy Christmas Day. I have to say that we both missed the pleasure of being with our families, but not the stress of entertaining or being entertained or having to explain what happened to all the eggnog or why I smelled of eggnog or what I was going out to buy more of at the store or why I was having chest pains. Also, I'm sure Katr was okay skipping my family's yearly "Decoy Wrapping and Gift Tag Clues Six Hour Present Opening Extravaganza" (the more fool her, I say!).
Lest you think we're becoming agoraphobic hermits here in Vancouver, we did attend a seasonal social event on the 23rd, when we ventured all the way ACROSS THE HALL to our lovely neighbours' open house. It was very festive and there were plenty of other homos there and some shrimp! We enjoyed ourselves, but left fairly early after being cornered and barked at endlessly by a well-meaning, close-talking, very deaf older gentleman. Later on, when I took the dog out, I heard "Welcome to the Jungle" being blasted and a lot of whooping noises. Maybe our neighbours are swingers.
The "keep it simple" theme extended to gifts this year - while we both enjoyed the Amazonian bounty of family and friends, we each only got each other one thing. Because I like to rub baked goods all over me, Katr got me a wide selection of delicious shower gels and lip glosses from philosophy. Mmmm.
I have been huffing them all for days. DAYS. Fortunately, Katr hasn't noticed my new addiction, because I got her a Nabaztag.
I don't know what kind of dirty things she's getting up to with that Wi-Fi enabled rabbit. Sometimes, I hear it whimpering.
Emmy got a new treat as well. She discovered turkey.
Their love affair is ardent and touching.
She also got a couple of actual gifts - as Jeba's hilarious Christmas card predicted:
they did indeed squeak. Her new toy Dino has afforded us hours of enjoyment. HOURS.
As I sit here, contemplating my next turkey sandwich, it occurs to me that there are just a few days of December left - did you know? So little time to decide on my resolutions for the new year! Will 2008 be the year I finally get my driver's license? Or should I focus all my energy on my luge training for the 2010 Olympics? History will decide.
Ooo - for all those who are avidly interested, we've (Katr has) put together a post-wedding wrap-up blog over at www.kateandrose.com! If you were there, go relive the fun! And if you weren't, you can check out the ceremony and vows (nothing too cringe-worthy, I promise) and lots of other stuff. We're still working on it (particularly the thank-you page!) but we needed somewhere to put all of our tips and advice for the gay brides of the future. Because we're never doing that again.
