While, my Christmas season isnt over until after Boxing Day, I can gladly say I no longer have to eat turkey. Let me go on the record and say that turkey dinner is one of my least favorite meals. I can handle turkey on a hot sandwich or in soup or something, but I dont like just sitting and eating turkey. I've actually been known to sit down to turkey dinner and eat just veggies and stuffing. Regardless, you can imagine my excitement at having to eat two turkey dinners today. I didnt do too badly though, his mother's dinner was first, and I ate a decent portion of potatoes and carrots and a whole sweet potato, and a little bit of turkey. I made sure I didnt eat any dessert or anything afterwards so that I wouldnt be too full. Then we had about an hour break before dinner was served at my uncle's house, and for that dinner I had green beans, beets, cabbage, stuffing, and some turkey. The only thing I didnt finish was the stuffing, mostly because it was too dry. Tomorrow, rather than have more turkey we're having spaghetti and meatballs, which I dont like any more than I like turkey, but I dont have to cook it so I cant complain.

As for gifts, I got clothes from my mother, and jammies from my godmother (there's too many in my generation for them to purchase for anyone other than their godchildren). We dont talk to my father's family, so I dont expect anything from any of them. My brother got me a Corelle divided plate (inside joke), and a bunch of candles. Corrine had picked my name for Secret Santa and got me a pair of jammies, the ones Im wearing now actually. My boyfriend's mother got me a giant bag, which I could probably fit a weeks worth of clothes in, which is awesome.

Now, in the four years that he and I were together before, he didnt get me any jewelry. One time I asked for a silver bracelet for Valentine's Day and he flat out told me no (we wont touch Valentine's Day in this post), and I dont think I ever asked for jewellery again. There was a watch he bought me once, but I dont consider watches actually jewellery. There were no rings, earrings, bracelets, or pendants. So since August I've been flat out telling him that I wanted something sparkley for Christmas. Its not like I was asking him to spend a fortune, you can get really nice pieces for under a hundred dollars. Anywho, the other night we get together to exchange gifts and finish season two of Dexter. So he hands me my gift and I open the first part which was a pink cover for Wii controller number two, and I pull out the second part and I could tell by the shape of the box that it was a ring. I had a mild panic attack that he might be the diamond, but he knows better than to propose on a holiday, so I didnt figure that's what he was doing.

So I open the box and inside is a very pretty ring with my birthstone in the center and two little diamonds on each side. My big obstacle is that prior to the night he gave it to me, I hadnt had a ring on my finger since well over a decade, so I could only wear it a short while before I was fidgeting with it too much and had to take it off. I wore it the whole time I was out last night, and I didnt touch it all that much, today I wore it the whole day and was rather proud of myself for barely touching it. That is, until I looked at it before I went home and realized that my finger was green. I dreaded having to tell him because I knew how he'd react, and he was as upset as I thought he'd be, so now I feel bad about it even though I had no control over my finger turning green from wearing a ring that was real gold.

When I sit and think about it, part of me isnt all that surprised since my body is sensitive when it comes to jewellery anyway. I can only wear a curved bar in my navel or it will infect, but as soon as I take the hoop out it gets better. If I put a hoop in my lip it stays sore until I take it out and put the post back in. In my ears, I can only wear real metal or surgical steel piercing jewelry. I can wear costume jewellery for a short while, but my ears will infect if its left too long. Around my neck Im normally okay, but if I wear a chain thats not real metal and has been worn a few times already I've been known to break out on the back of my neck. Whether or not I actually have an allergy is not something I've ever been tested for, but if the ring that he gave me is going to turn me green I cant wear it, and while I feel bad about it, it might have to be returned. Maybe I just need a highter carat gold. We'll see what happens.

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