But it was a good Christmas, I got to have two of them. My dad had to work this Christmas, again, so we celebrated it a day early, on Christmas Eve. It was really fun, actually. Last year was kind of a bummer, celebrating it a day early and then the actual Christmas day doing nothing but sitting at home alone. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed the day we celebrated Christmas, but the next day was... disappointing somehow.
But this Christmas we celebrated it with our family on Christmas Eve, then on Christmas day we had best friend Joe over, which was a blast!
For Christmas we got a Wii, which is totally out of character for my parents, but it is being much enjoyed! I beat dad a whole bunch at the boxing, but Joe beat me when we boxed. Oh well. So the actual Christmas day we played the Wii, went sledding tied to the back of our four wheeler, I beat Joe at poker (the first time!!! Win!!)
We exchanged gifts, Tater and I got Joe a coffee pot (don't ask) and mom got him a pair of jeans he was wanting. Joe gave Tater a cool knife that the goofball promptly cut himself on. The gift Joe got me made me nearly cry! He took a poem that I had written and used Photo shop to make a really cool picture out of it, then he framed it in a really nice frame. It's really special, and as soon as I get some I will post some pictures of it.
So it was a really great Christmas, and I will venture to say that it was the best one ever!
I have finally worked up the courage to send in some of my poetry to be published, the results are pending. Joe has confidence that my poetry is special, and I am trying to as well. It's exciting and scary and nerve racking to take a part of you like your writing and give it to the world. I can't help but be pessimistic and think that it will be torn to shreds, but I have decided to pretend like I didn't even do a crazy thing like submit my poetry and just wait for the results.
So cross your fingers and say a prayer for the poor poet!
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