Well, hello! I hope your holiday was all things merry and bright.
My holiday was intense. Like screw with you brain intense. But we’ll get to that later.
A quick recap: Chicken Face and I had wrapped the gifts, packed the car and debated about the weather. I had missed Christmas with my family once when I was living in New York and since then, I’m not a fan of being sans family during the holidays. The snow over the pass was crazy, so much so that they shut down I80 completely, but I was determined to get there, even if it meant taking another, longer route. Chicken Face, being the good husband that he is, listened to my stupid plan and we started our journey.
By the time we were an hour or so into the drive, our incessant weather.com checking had confirmed what we feared: attempting to make it over the pass wouldn’t be a wise idea, and if we tried, it would likely take us 10+ hours of driving in dangerous weather to get home. We thought about every scenario, but with another storm hitting Sunday and another on Wednesday (when we were supposed to return home), but the decision was made: we’d forgo the holidays with our family this weekend and instead celebrate at a later time.
I don’t know why, but I went back and forth on that decision at least 100 times over the weekend. My little sister is pregnant and I so badly wanted to be there, but I also knew that the time with just Chicken Face would be fantastic.
So it was settled, we spent the weekend at the movies, Starbucks, exchanged gifts, I threw together a last-minute holiday party for my extended family, and took far too many photos of Lola.
Hellllllo no make-up and acne.
Slightly obsessed with the flowers I used for our holiday dinner.
Monday we both worked, followed by a relaxing night by the fire in our Christmas PJs. Cue the cheese…
Christmas morning we slept in, let Lola open her stocking, FaceTimed my family and made a delicious feast for two: veggie scramble, turkey bacon, pumpkin poppers and mimosas. We ate the whole damn thing.
I swear to you, she did this on her own.
Hi dad!
Now comes the intense part. The part where we could be ashamed, but we just can’t because it was so damn good. We spent the rest of the day watching all of season one of Homeland.
You guys, WTF. This show. It’s an anxiety, adrenaline, TV addiction. We’d end each episode postulating our theories, sulking about how many hours of Showtime we’ve watched, then looking at each other, grinning, and hitting “play” on the next episode. Outside of a one-hour SkipBo game with my cousin, breakfast, and dinner, we did nothing but watch Homeland in all of its “my mind just exploded” glory.
It’s was unusual, it was lazy…and it was just what we needed.
Any other Homeland fans? Or any other lazy Christmas stories?
Happy Running!
I LOVE Homeland! Now that’s a good Christmas!
PS – season two is pretty good too!
Homeland quickly became my Sunday ritual with my boyfriend. He bought me Season One for Xmas, and I spent most of today watching it! Claire Danes is a goddess.
I LOVE Homeland!! I just finished watching the Season 2 Finale and it blew my mind. I feel like every single time I watch that show, I get actual anxiety and my heart starts pumping and I get all sweaty. Ha.
Christian and I just started watching Homeland a week ago. I came upon the show by accident. Never had heard about it prior. We LOVE it! It doesn’t quite top Elementary, but it’s up there. And I love that we have so many episodes still ahead of us 🙂
LOVE Homeland. My fiance got me into it this past summer. Just wait until you get to season 2…OMG!
This year was the first year in 32 years that I was not with my family. We moved to CA back in July, so decided not to spend the money to go home for Christmas. Instead, we Facetimed with family and used the money we got to purchase a one way ticket back to Philly once our lease is up 🙂 Best Christmas present ever!
I’m dying to watch Homeland, how did you guys watch it? We’re renting it from Netflix but I have a feeling that one disc at a time is not going to work…
We have Comcast as our cable provider so we can watch it on “OnDemand.” Good luck!
Ooh great, so do we! Now I know what I’m doing when I get home…
Boo for not making it home, but the alone time with the hubby is nice. My hubby & I started watching it this season & we literally spent an entire day & a few late evenings getting all caught up. We live it & it continues to leave you on the edge of your seats wanting more!! We watch it On Demand because its the easiest & realistically you won’t watch the DVD’s again.
OMG Lola’s sweater. I can’t. She is SO cute!!!
Ahh so jealous! I’ve been trying to find a reliable Homeland source for a while now, but it’s not on Netflex and less than totally legal websites don’t seem to work with my bad Internet connection. I’m determined to watch it someday though!
We have Comcast as our cable provider so we can watch it on “OnDemand.” Good luck!
Although I’m sure it was very tough missing your family, that sounds pretty nice! I have never watched Homeland but we bought my sister-in-law the DVDs…and she ended up with two copies due to some family mis-communication, maybe I should watch! 🙂
I would definitely recommend it!
Oh my God!! My husband and I watched 13 hours of Homeland season 1 (purchased through Netflix) on Thanksgiving weekend. We then proceeded to actually subscribe to Showtime just so we could watch the ENTIRE season 2 the very next weekend!!! So bad. But so good.
Hahaha, we did the same thing with Dexter. We’re such suckers!
Aw- too bad you guys couldn’t make it home for Christmas, but your quiet one actually sounds pretty amazing!
My Boxing Day was gloriously lazy with some The Big C watching! (That’s my tv obsession- can’t wait for the third season to come out on DVD.)
Sorry to hear you missed Christmas w the family due to weather! Sounds like you made the best of it though. My moms dog also opened her stocking like a champ!
Yea, the weather was insane around here around xmas! Sunday was especially bad, same with Monday. Probably better that you didn’t try to head home, since I-80 sounded awful from some of my friends that were snowboarding there.
I just started watching Homeland yesterday – finished season 1 episodes 1 and 2. This show is awesome! It totally reminds me of 24, I haven’t been able to find a show since 24 that measures up – Homeland seems to measure up so far!
Glad that you had a fantastic Christmas, even though it wasn’t what you thought you would be doing! You’re always amazing at making the best of any situation no matter what it may be, and that is something very special 🙂 Here’s to a healed up ankle and great 2013!
Thanks, D. Miss you mucho and I hope to see you in 2013!
erm…..if that’s what you look like without makeup, I can only imagine how stunning you’d look WITH makeup. your bare face is so gorgeous! i’m glad you flaunt your natural beauty instead of hiding it with unnecessary cosmetics 🙂
Awe – you are too nice. Happy New Year!
sorry to hear that the storm got in the way of your holidays, but way to make the best of it! I got sucked into Homeland over the holidays, too. I told myself I was just gonna watch the first episode to see what all the hype was about and then $20 and 1 very lazy day later I’d finished season 1 : / now my problem is figuring out how to get my hands on season 2!
not even, we started watching homeland over Christmas weekend too! But we have to do 3 episodes at a time style, since we only get one Netflix DVD at a time…which has left me VERY angry when I can’t keep on going to the next one. We just finished episode numbers 9 and 10, which were the first ones I didn’t like…the second the one-dimensional Mitt-Romney-esque vice president popped up the show started working less for me. Don’t worry, still addicted.
Late Merry Xmas!
Okay, I just finished season 1 of Homeland, this show is out of control good! Honestly just based on season 1 I think it might be better than 24 – I never thought that would be possible for me to say! Claire Danes is phenomenal! Damian Lewis is also awesome. I now can’t wait to watch season 2!