Christmas 2006: Gifts and Ghosts

Every year this fateful holiday rears its head to reveal some new dimension of my both charmed and flawed existence. Whether it's been major family arguments, trips to the hospital because of some head wound, girlfriends deserting me in mall parking lots, or self inflicted and humiliating life crises... this season to be jolly always brings with it scenarios with which I am ill equipped to cope. This year was no different.
Now, to be fair, I did get my fair share a Hannukah goodies- a new cell phone, new glasses, a really cool fucking knife, visits and nights out with good friends- not to mention a mending of friendship that I would have sorely missed out on in this fair city of mine. But lets be reasonable here, I attribute these things to Hannukah- the light hearted non biblical Jewish holiday that celebrates olive oil and dreidels.
That being said, the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Present chose to visit me this year in the form of an awkward night out with a former significant other that turned into a fairly excrutiating realization and retaliation on my part. You see, sometimes we don't close the book on things that we should have years ago. Instead, we often move on to the next thing in our lives without properly mourning or putting feelings to rest. Ironic that this happened during the Christmas of a year spent putting a whole other set of feelings away. And now, my thunder has been stolen. What progress I've made this year is not all for naught- but I've really got a long way to go. I guess I can't dwell on this stuff too much... the Ghost of Christmas Future didn't even show up yet.


Any ghosts or gifts worthy of mention for you?