I had a wonderful, wonderful Christmas Day today. Truly. One of the best in memory.
I also miss my family. They’re spread across the country right now. My parents are by themselves up in NorCal. I have brothers in Chicago and New York. I’m here in San Fran with my own family of Liz, Cooper and Coco, along with my father in law Lin.
We were able to open presents together all of us except my brother in New York. With Scott and my parents, we did it through FaceTime. There’s a new feature where you can have multiple people on the same video chat…finally. It took us a while to get it working, but it was awesome once we did, and it made me miss my family who wasn’t with me.
I got an excellent gift for Christmas. I’m using them right now. Noise-cancelling headphones. The ones by Bose. I’ve never had noise-cancelling headphones before. They’re kind of magical. They fucking WORK. Wow, do they work. I had no idea how good that technology had gotten. It really makes the world nice and quiet. It will be amaaaaazing for my writing, as long as I can wear them and not hurt my head because of my glasses. I have high hopes, however.
Tomorrow…I need to get some work done. The finances must be finished. Double-checked. Correlated. Etc. Need to pay some bills, too. Oof. That’ll hurt. Bills are painful, ya know?
These headphones really are the dope show. I love them. I think because of the noise-cancelling, you don’t have to play them so loud! And that’s amazing. I know they were expensive AF…but they’re worth it if I use them…and I think I will.
Thanks bear for an amazing gift. I love it already. I can tell they’re going to work, because I’ve been wearing them for almost a half hour and there’s no pain. Almost no pain, I guess. I can still feel it slightly on my temples, but nothing like on-ear headphones.
I hope you all had a merry, merry Christmas/happy holiday spent exactly the way you wanted it. That’s what I hope. Last night I mentioned family because that’s what I was thinking about, but I realize that not everyone wants to be with their family on Christmas, and that’s totally okay. Everyone’s situation is unique. Everyone of us has our own relationships. So, I wish for you instead that your Christmas/holiday was simply spent the way you wanted to spend it.
Good night.