@envgen
Welcome to generic adult family gatherings, where you finally find out how weird everyone around you really is and Aunt Nella constantly overshares. Don´t worry, you already paid the entrance fee via growing up already and it´s non-refundable ;)

i mean it was nice, all things considered

but it was just me and my dad and my stepmom cooped up in a house in ireland, a country i'm not familiar with, we didn't go out, we didn't see relatives, nobody came round, my brother and my dad won't bury the hatchet so he wasn't there yet again

it's nice to visit, but when it's christmas it really highlights the numerous elephants in the room and that's more noticeable than the nice bits

eh i've got it better than a lot of people 🤷