Firstly, thank all of you for the various holiday well wishes. I appreciate them and reciprocate, even if I didn’t reply to every single one.

My holiday was a bit different than I expected in that on Xmas day my cousins were suffering from a puking flu, so 50% of xmas was cancelled. It was very strange for me in that I don’t plan anything for the days when I have to go somewhere other than to go somewhere, so I didn’t have anything in particular I had to do. So I didn’t really do much of anything. Mostly I just rested from the events of the previous day.

We gathered grandpa up from the nursing home and brought him to first Xmas. He’s gained weight and isn’t as mobile as when he went in, so it’s harder to move him now. Made even more difficult by the fact that my back injury makes it difficult for me to lift or support anything over a few pounds.

We got him there and back, but my side hurt from trying to keep him from falling over at one point.

Anyway, we’ll have to exchange gifts with the cousins sometime after new years by the look of it. No way could Mom, dad, or I tolerate getting flu bad enough to make you vomit. I got a shot for this years flu but who knows if that’s even what they’ve got.

Without the structure of other people’s expectations we didn’t exchange gifts until the evening when I remembered that we hadn’t.

Honestly, it’s still not the worst Xmas I’ve had by a long shot.
We’ll do another little gift exchange when my sister’s family visits.

As I think I said on Wednesday, my brain doesn’t really register what we do now as Xmas anyway. It’s so far removed from the very specific ritual we used to do that it’s functionally like we haven’t had Xmas in seven years or so for me. Maybe longer. My sense of time is questionable at best.

It puts me in mind of the Narnia books with the white witch. Always winter, never Xmas…

I guess I didn’t really do nothing. I made the comic, or at least the art. I guess I don’t register it as doings something in the same way as other things. It’s more like breathing than playing a game or something. I have to do it to live. Anyway, I’ve been sleeping at such odd times that I want to go to bed now at 8PM. There’s no reason why I shouldn’t really. I guess I will. I see that it will still be December on Monday, so I won’t wish you a happy new year just yet. But I’m thinking about it. I have every intention of wishing you all well! Not now… Later, precious. For now I will wish you a safe weekend. Until next time, modern posing, retro play!

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