Yay, let's play the numbers game!
1--Traditional English Christmas dinner eaten, including turkey and vegetables and brussel sprouts and roasted potatoes and truckloads of gravy
1--English Christmas Puddings eaten
1--Queen's Christmas Speech viewed
0--Mention of Charles & Camilla's wedding during said speech
9--Time difference (in hours) between England and AK
1--Mobile phones accidentally left at home when I went over to spend Christmas w/WR's family
17--Times my family tried to get ahold of me on Christmas Day
4--Total hours spent in my own house during the holidays
2--Times my parents said, "You're dead to me!" when I finally called them
2--Turkey & brie sandwiches consumed from Christmas leftovers
1,379--Pieces of chocolate consumed, including the alcoholic kind and imported Reese's peanut butter cups
27--Hours of television watched, including the parts I slept through
2--Times it snowed, turning the rooftops all white and Dickenslike, and the countryside all English and pretty
0--Hours of homework done
It did feel somewhat strange and not-quite-like-Christmas to be away from my family. But I was very lucky in that lots and lots of people checked in to make sure that I had somewhere to go and wasn't going to end up alone in a cold empty house, overdosing on paracetemol. WR's family was very kind and made me feel at home (they even bought me presents!) and I didn't ever have time to get homesick. Plus I got to be with WR pretty much the whole time, which made me happy. So yeah, I'm a lucky girl.
I hope you all had wonderful Christmases too!
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