32...baubles, lights and lots of wrapping

Many families can probably say this about their own family, but my family is very, very weird.

It's Christmas, and the first thing my sister had to do today was get one of her wisdom teeth pulled out.

My father went to work, and my mother slept in, and i waited for everyone to rise while reading the second book of the Hunger Games, only to realise that i was just pages away from the end.

We went last-minute christmas shopping, and walked around the mall trying to find something to send to a lovely man who used to come collect our cleaning items a year ago.

He's 31, dashing, shy, kind and talented - so naturally we love him.

And just like any other day, we fought, someone cried, things were spilt, our house remained fairly untidy and our cat chased after everyone for food. 

But it's still nice knowing that this day that comes just once a year is here. 

5? 6? more days until the end of the year but aiaiai numbers are just numbers, and days'll probably just whizz by, but cheers to anyone out there celebrating today, merry christmas!

18...ordinary people

Done with classes for a while - this is good, time to go back to my thoughts and also time to become a couch potato, or perhaps more like a sloth living indoors that only looks forward to feeding time. (And also do something, anything, something worthwhile once in a while). I was listening to John Legend the other day and his song 'Ordinary People' is one of my favourites but i love the ending line "this time we'll take it slow" - let's take it slow. One foot at a time, one day at no rush; doing what we can. Watching a movie on Aung San Suu Kyi's life, and listening to my friend talk about what she wanted to do in the future today made me realise how utterly limitless our capacity of doing things is in a sense, and i guess it all just depends on the same as whether you chose to see the glass half full or half empty.