Winter Solstice had now past and the Wheel has turned. For me the new year has already begun which means the damp squib of 31st of December does not have any significance.
I do my best to break up from work on the Solstice which means the New Year gets off to a cracking start with the traditional Christmas week and a nice fortnight before back to work.
One blot on the landscape for me this year.
I RECKLESSLY invited my family to share in the festive turkey feast on the 25th.
This means I will have to contend with my cross dressing Dad - still firmly in the closet because of my christian fundamentalist mother and my christian fundamentalist mother. My father looks to me to give him permissions to be himself, my mother seeks to reassure herself that I am not dabbling in any dark arts. Mr Vix has not forgiven my mother for her appalling behaviour towards me in my youth and goes round on the edge of an outburst of rage. This increases exponentially to the amount of alcohol consumed.
As you can already see - its potentially volatile.
Dad tends to snivel all the way through the day, mourning his lack of self expression while mother tends to become more and more dogmatic in her views as the day goes on. Tut, tut, tutting her way through the day. Everything is 'worldly' and debauched. All musicians/actors/creative types are on drugs. Psychotherapy and all my personal interests are evil. My friends are sinners. My children are given too much freedom ...blah blah blah.
Mr Vix gets steadily more outragious to shake my mother from her pious perch.
As if that is not bad enough - I have also gone for maximum masochism - also on the guest list are:-
Brother in Law (never speaks),
Sister (heading the same way as my mother),
Nephew (heading the same way as my father),
Niece - eats for England, resembles a plague of locusts and has a penchant for going through my cupboards - if she discovers all my pagan paraphernalia and decides to out me then you can imagine the volcanic eruption that will take place.
Why did I do it? Why oh why?
Next year - Barbados!
5 comments:
Hmmmm...sounds like all the Christmases of my youth and young adult life lol. Family..we all have, bless us ;)
Oh, very best of luck, I hope you managed to have a good one despite all that you've mentioned.
At least you've got a couple of cds of (hopefully) chilled out music there if you need them :-)
But I hope you can get through the day without serious upset or mayhem x
"managed" should be "manage", of course - it's too soon to be using past tense!
Boogirl: Yay!!! Boo!!! Your blog is fabulous. Now you will know all MY secrets. Only fair eh?
Trousers: The CDs are going to be a life saver I am sure. Part of me is hoping it all blows up and I can be totally me and honest at last! Its the last area of my life that I skulk about in.
You like taking a risk Vix!
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