Wow – I’m engaged!
Traditionally, Christmas Day isn’t always a completely positive affair for my family. Oh sure, we have the typical moments of love and happiness as we sit there gorging on endless food with our friends and family. Usually, someone has always had too much too drink, or has a drug induced mental illness, which causes them to fly off the handle over some trivial issue and ruin the day for everyone. Last year we didn’t have such a moment, so my sister Amy and I pretended to have a fight, just so it felt like Christmas. It went something like this:
Me: OMG, YOU SUCK! (giggle)
Amy: YOU BITCH! (laugh)
Mum: What’s going on? (confused look)
This year, we were on track to have yet another good year, which I didn’t think I would be able to cope with – two in a row could cause a system overload! We spent the morning having breakfast at my dad’s place, swimming at the river, then eventually at my Mum’s place to unwrap presents and have lunch. I begun wondering what I’d need to do to make it seem like normal…whether I should have a domestic with Mat or not. As it turned out something memorable did happen, something I definitely didn’t see coming.
Mat proposed to me, and I accepted.