Traditions

Technically this is late but technically I don't care. This counts because I'm not asleep yet.

It's getting to that stage now where I'm really excited about Christmas. I know exactly what I'm getting, and I know that part of that won't get here until possibly around february but I'm still really excited that it's going to get here at all, my main present is wrapped and everything, and I'm buying myself two books because I really want them and I've already got £20 in a card, and I know that I won't have them bought by anyone. I think I might buy them and then ask mum to wrap them for me. I'm already doing that with my Michael Bublé calendar, which I bought in September and have already looked through and admired. Come to think of it, I think I'm aware of every present I'm getting this year. My main present, my things I saw dad order online for me yesterday, the books I need to buy and the calendar. I'm not getting anything else except for maybe a couple of stocking fillers. I really can't wait for my main present, it's the sort of thing I can fiddle with for ages and not get bored of, like my Camera last year. I still sit with my camera just to play around with it now, even if I'm not going anywhere. Mum wants to open the presents in front of the tree this year as opposed to their bedroom, but I don't like it. For one thing it's always freezing downstairs on a morning, and for another, traditions are traditions for a reason. Traditions work, so we keep them. Like having turkey for Christmas dinner, it's just the way things are and that's not going to change! But maybe it is time for a change this year? My brother will be with his girlfriend so it'll be different enough already. I don't like it when he's not there on Christmas morning, it feels lonely. He'll be coming for dinner but still, I'll miss him.
I suppose everything has to change every now and again, but there'll always be those things you wish will never change.