Life at the end of 2023
If I didn't believe in both my marriage and Mercury retrograde, this last mercury retrograde would've convinced me.
We've been together many years at this point, and are more stable than anything I've experienced in my life. It still shocks me that I found something this healthy, this good, this stable.
Starting during the preshadow period of Mercury's retrograde this year, we started seeing multiple couples around us break up. Two couples we thought were end game broke up extremely suddenly, and a third we were concerned about finally called it quits. One family member, LB, moved in with us from another state after the end of their recent multi year relationship with someone they've known decades.
Two family members have started sharing about partnerships they've entered into, both of which blossoming from friends with benefits dynamics, and honestly, I truly hope both of these are as wonderful as they seem to be currently.
The holidays were chaotic, which is just the default setting for our big, loud, hectic family. One of our family members will be turning eighteen in just about a week. The niblings got to open gifts, even the ones still figuring out how to do so, which was incredibly cute.
Our gifts to each other ended up being more over the top and expensive than most other years. I had bought myself a gorgeous antique style lipstick organizer in green and gold for my growing lipstick collection- I buy myself new YSL lipsticks with engraving for my birthday every year- and my wonderful partner bought me the entire rest of the makeup organizer set as one of my bigger x-mas gifts. They also got me a YSL Black Opium gift set that was amazing. It included a shimmer lotion in the same scent, which is pretty much a dream come true for me. Since my partner is pretty obsessed with x-mas (at least from a cultural perspective, not nearly as much in the religious sense) we ended up getting each other 21 gifts this year, not including the stocking stuffers. Partner got a three terabyte hard drive for their video games, several collectible figures, a set of multiple sizes of cast iron pans, and a bunch of other stuff as well.
The dogs' Auntie, my BFF, JT, sent them a box of dog toys as well as sending really cute gifts for partner and I. She sent me a palmistry style ceramic hand jewelry holder, which is so freaking cool. It's made it much easier to leave my most frequently worn rings out and on display instead of having to use the ring part of my large jewelry box every time.
Local bestie (A) found the cutest goth candle set for me, they look like a black skull and a black spinal column. I'll never be able to burn them, but they're incredibly cool. She totally gets my vibe.
One out of town cousin and their partner will be coming into town hopefully for two different special occasions in the coming weeks, one of which being my birthday. They're amazing and the partner and I have been close since the first time we met.
LB and my partner have been trying to figure out how to repair my favorite rollator walker after it broke not long ago, though they're also joking about adding a motor and headlights and who knows what else to it, which is hilarious. Once we have an idea about how to repair it, we'll start planning a new paint job for it, too.
I feel incredibly lucky to have two people and multiple dogs in my household that care about me to this extent. My MIL and her side of the family are also so wonderful I nearly cried on x-mas eve, just out of gratitude for having them and the way they love and accept and support me.
We brought the tamales this year to the x-mas eve family event, and the potatoes au gratin to the x-mas day event.
The last few years have been a lot, but right now, I'm content and grateful.
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