Post Holiday Blah

As most of you know, my Darling Husband is deployed this Holiday Season. As some of you know, this is the first time in 7 years of marriage and 8 Holiday Seasons together that this has ever happened, despite his being in the Military our entire relationship. So as many of you might understand, this Holiday Season has really thrown me, but for a variety of reasons.

For starters, I've been engaged in some sort of battle with my shared-wall neighbors. Things were fine with them, great even, when they first moved in. DH and I helped them navigate around and pointed them in the direction of various places when asked. Went quite a bit out of our way at times, but happy to do so. Then DH left for a month and things went downhill slightly. Upon his return, things seemed to improve and I thought it must have been my imagination. Then upon his departure for his long deployment, things again started going downhill to the point where they have escalated little by little, with me standing here having no clue as to what I did to them to deserve the type of treatment that I have been enduring.

Anyway, with DH gone, the holidays approaching and the neighbors doing their best to drive me out of my own home, referring to myself as the Grinch was not a long stretch. I wasn't in a very festive mood. Originally I had plans to reserve a place at a Chinese restaurant that served duck and do a Peking Duck for Christmas Dinner instead of making anything at home. Somehow, I never followed through with this plan. I barely followed any of my normal traditions; I bought a much smaller tree - a table top one - instead of erecting our 6ft tree and lent the 6ft to friends. I didn't cook on Thanksgiving, I bought pie and went to a friends house. My Christmas cards didn't get done until a week after I normally send them out. I only bought gifts for Darling Daughter, friends children and made a few gifts for others. And Christmas Dinner? Forget it.

This year, after presents, we (DD and I) opted to spend the day at the movies. First up? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1. No, we had not seen it yet. Enjoyable, definitely, but despite having not read the book in probably 6 years, I could still remember parts that weren't done exactly right. As with all the HP movies. We enjoyed our soda and popcorn before taking a break before the next movie. Luckily there was enough time to come back to the house, walk the dogs quickly, let DD blow off some steam and then head back. With PLENTY of time before the movie started. Then it was time to sit through Tangled. DD and I enjoyed it immensely.

But now the Holiday is over. And despite my Bah-Humbug feel towards it all this year, I am still feeling the post Holiday blah. and it sucks.