Anniversary/Christmas

"Best that I've had, I'm so glad I found you - I love being around you!"
- Plain White T's, 1 2 3 4

Last Saturday, Wrecking Ball and I celebrated our first anniversary. I went over to his house and traded Christmas present with him and his family, and I was pleasantly surprised when he gave me some books he enjoys as a Christmas present. He thought we could read them together while I'm away. I thought that was an excellent gift, and told him I had already bought extra copies of my two favourite books (Memoirs of a Geisha and 13 Little Blue Envelopes) so that we could read them together. It was really cool that we both had the same idea (well, we both like the same idea. I didn't think of it myself, I actually read it online somewhere).

On Christmas morning, after my family had opened all of our presents, Wrecking Ball collected me and we had dinner with his family, then went back to my house for dessert and watched a movie with my dad (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the Swedish version with subtitles).

For some reason this felt like the best Christmas I've had in a long time. I don't know whether it was because I'm really cherishing the time that I have with my family before I leave (that sounds so silly, but I love them more than I like to admit) or if it was something else, but it was a really good weekend.

For the rest of last week I've been seeing my friends, Love in particular, as much as I can. Jewel and I had a nice time together on Wednesday. We went to the mall for no reason just like we used to do in middle school. It was great. We're going to see each other again tomorrow night, and I'm really looking forward to it. It's funny, we don't see each other very often, but the option is always there and we seem to take that for granted. Since we are about to have six whole months in which we are guaranteed to not see each other, it suddenly feels like I couldn't spend enough time with her.