December 25th 2025
Digital Journal Entry
Hello! I almost forgot to write this and it’s currently 2am as I finally get around to it. Today was pretty uneventful at the start; I don’t have any big plans for Christmas usually, especially not like most households do with screaming children. I woke up at around 1pm and just floated about for a bit. I did actually watch ‘Smile 2’ in the very early hours of the day, which was a bit of a strange film to start Christmas with but I thought it was super fun nonetheless. Maybe fun is the wrong word, because it was pretty miserable, but I enjoyed it. It was very surprising.
After just wasting time, I went to my friends house for a big Christmas party. It was a cute little house in the south of Manchester, and I was quite ready to get a bit too drunk with friends, until no one turned up? Essentially everyone who planned to come had cancelled last minute, so it was just me and my friend eating Christmas dinner watching comedy panel shows on TV. It wasn’t what I had prepared for, but it was genuinely quite lovely. It was nice not to get absolutely hammered for a change, and we had some lovely chats about random stuff. She said it before me, but it did not feel like Christmas, and I agreed. It felt like a nice chat with a friend alongside some nice food and booze. I had a really good time, and therefore I guess a really good Christmas. I’m glad that is over with though, and I can mentally prepare for the hell of New Years.
I hate these big holidays because there’s so much anticipation for one single night. I couldn’t imagine it ever living up to the hype, so that’s why I’d always much rather work it. Everyone expects this night to be the best thing ever, and if I was there I feel like I’d just get a bit dissapointed. I feel the exact same around my birthday, like I just want it to stop existing but then there’s some pressure to celebrate it. Oh well, that probably sounds really miserable so ignore that.
I had a really good Christmas though, and I feel really happy at the minute. I am dreading New Years but honestly I don’t really care. I get paid extra to do my job as normal, and then 2026 starts and I just keep working. We stay moving. Thanks for reading.