These holidays came way to fast for me this year. I don't celebrate Christmas but I do celebrate the New Year. And every year that the New Year comes it leaves me reminiscing about the past and I become nostalgic about the past. It makes me reflect on the past year and every time I feel that I have not accomplished enough in the past year. That's why I don't like all these holidays. Last year, though I was in Mexico and at that time I was excited about the new year to come. I guess I was in a new place for the first time and I was curious to learn about their culture, and New Year's traditions that I did not have the time to reflect on myself.
And that's a good thing.
Wednesday just before the day of the Christmas Eve, Minnesota was showered with a snow fall. But the snow this time was actually pleasant, this was mostly because it was not cold outside. On Wednesday I left work early (we received verbal permission from our manager) and I had a couple of things to do. I wanted to finish gift shopping for my family. The gifts are not for Christmas but for our Eid celebration that happened a few weeks back. I always get them something for Eid but this Eid I did not get them anything since I had no money. So I was driving around and was stuck in traffic here in Uptown. It was insane the snow was falling, everyone trying to do their Christmas shopping, that I decided to go back to my apartment and park my car and just walk everyone where I needed to go. That was after I hauled some groceries into my apartment. Than I started walking and my first destination was the Starbucks
on Hennepin. Once I started walking I realized that actually this place was not as close as I thought. After Starbucks I turned around and walked the opposite direction to Victoria's Secret. It was so wonderful walking in the snow and there was something romantic about it. And I can't believe it but I was sad that I did not have someone next to me to share that with, that moment on that day walking in the snow.
Either way, I got all the gifts that I wanted and once I got home I was surprised how tired I felt. I wrapped the gifts and sat down to watch some TV. Ambriz called and even though the roads were really bad outside he wanted to come and see me before he leaves for Denver the next day. When he came we played the Monopoly card game I had bought a few days earlier at a Walgreen's. I was surprised how into the game he became and wanted to beat me so badly. It was very amusing to see him getting worked up about something. Anyways, shortly thereafter he left to drive back through the snow to his house and that was that.
Next day I had to get my car out of the snow and it was a pain in the ***. Before that though, I took the picture you see here from my apartment building. It was nice outside so white and the snow was not yet dirty. That same day, I made it to my parents house and they were happy to see me. I gave them the presents and they were happy about them. Since they did not get me anything (they don't have to, since this is my little thing for Eid) Aida had a shirt that she bought at Arden B for herself and decided to give it to me. Which was really sweet of her. She is a very kind person. The following day we went to see Sherlock Holmes with the whole family. I managed to get the last tickets, as soon as I had paid the cashier he announced to everyone that the show was sold out and it made me feel excited that I had managed to get the last tickets! It was however, difficult to find good seats since the movie theater was completely full even though it was 30 minutes before the start of the movie. Well, I guess it is the busiest day for the movie theater business.
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