Justification

I'm one of those people who is addicted to horoscopes. I'm a Gemini. Its allowed.

I get emailed my horoscope from various places on a daily and weekly basis - sometimes they're accurate, sometimes they're rubbish. Today's was spot-on.

But I'll come back to that.

Now stay with me... there's a bit of back story I need to get out of the way.

In the past couple of years I've had pretty full-on Christmas Days. Last year I cooked brunch and lunch for 10, the year before I was on Kangaroo Island with my family and my sister-in-law's family (about 30 of us all up) and the year before that I was at a mate's place in Mt Woop-Woop with about 15 others.

All lots of fun, but quite stressful and left me feeling strung out for days afterwards.

This year, I have shocked my family and friends by declaring my intent to spend Christmas Day ALONE*. With a bunch of books and dvds to keep me occupied, a few bottles of bubbly and a little one-person dinner of turkey, roast veggies, candied yams, etc etc. I reckon it'll be great.

And if I get lonely, then I can always pop over to Bestie's house. She and her hubby will be at home awaiting the impending birth of the Bun and enjoying their last Christmas alone together before they get caught up in all that kiddie Christmas bulls**t.

But so many of my friends have expressed their outrage/ disappointment/ disbelief at my plan this year, that I was starting to doubt whether it actually was a good idea.

Right. That's the back story completed. You still with me?

This sentence in my weekly horoscope this morning, however, made me feel much better about my decision:

"On Christmas Day Mercury sextiles Neptune, which is perfect for drinking, watching movies and dreaming. You can party another day - sometimes being lazy is preferable."

Justification.

Ha. And ho ho ho.

Roll on Dec 25.



* - There is a chance that I will be spending part of Christmas Day with Ranikins and her parentals serving dinner to patrons at an inner-city shelter... but that is still to be confirmed. And it will only take up a mere 5 hours or so of my day so there will still be plenty of time for solitude.