happy christmas!!

What did you all get for this holiday, if you celebrate? (If not, when was ur birthday? Did u get anything special then?? :3)

I am really happy with what I got this year. It feels like my friends who got me gifts really knew me well, and my parents did too!!

My favrit things are

- depeche mode violator shirt my bff got for me

- unreal unearth (hozier's new album) on vinyl!!!!

- deephaven, a book by ethan aldridge (? i think)

- this lamp shaped like a griffin. its pretty cool & rainbow!!

i am so so excited to read deephaven!! i follow the artist/author on tumblr and it looked SO cool! X3

Also hozier is like. my favourite artist ever ever ever so that is so exciting! I collect vinyl, and with hoziers album i think i have around 70 records!!!! my other favrits are my "the number of the beast," from iron maiden, "dynasty" by kiss, and probably... one of my david bowie records. cos i have quite a bit of his discography now lol!!

ANYWAYS!

Christmas season was a lot different this year from other years, it feels like. First off, i live in a place where snow is supposed to be a given, but there was only icy sidewalks this year! not very scenic at all, yuck! i know its becos of global warming :(

and, its my first christmas since diagnosis back in september. it was a lot different in that way too. No more are there pancakes for breakfast ( instead we had bacon eggs and toast, which isnt the worst, but i miss my pancakes!!), not very much baking, and a lot more walks outdoors. also, i feel like my parents got me a couple more gifts than usual to bring some joy after the diagnosis!

(it was kind of crazy... my mom, who dislikes cats, was thinking of getting one because i got diagnosed, and it might bring some joy lol! ... i wish we had a cat :,( [not to say i dont love my dog!])

another thing was xmas eve dinner and christmas day dinner! i needed to inject insulin to eat some carbs, and my mom told me i had to leave the dinner table to do it because it was "impolite." I don't know, i dont really see it as impolite. I dont see how its super different from an asthmatic person needing their inhaler.. or something. it kinda bothered me, because i know she wants me to leave to take insulin if i go to a restaurant or smtn. i'd end up going to the bathroom, which is probably! waaay dirtier! and waay more likely for someone to think im doing drugs.......

a lot of t1ds ive read about agree, that its not rude or impolite. if shes so uncomfortable, she can close her eyes!!!!!!!

((if i knew someone with an extreme faint-on-sight needle phobia, i would be more cautious, but i dont!))

i think it teaches me to be ashamed of it, like its smtn to hide, which i dont think is right :// but whatever!