familial protestations
So Christmas Eve has been cancelled by my family.
CANCELLED. I don't know why exactly; something having to do with some stressful showdown that went on last year (when I, conveniently, was in Japan... or Hong Kong, technically). But that means no pizza dinner, no traditional family photo shenanigans, no waiting for the last minute wrapper to hurry up because the rest of us want to open presents, no spending the night at my parents' house to wake up to Christmas Day and toothbrushes in our stockings...
...none of that. WTF?! My Christmas spirit has been greatly depressed.