Christmas went well. Kinda. Dane is a Christmas Day opener and I am a Christmas Eve opener. Now on most things Dane just lets me do whatever cause I tend to be pushy like that. Though that is slowly changing (I seem to morphing into more of a submissive role these days and loving it!), I still fight for what I want pretty ruthlessly. So the C-day/C-eve thing has been a HUGE battle since the inception of our relationship. Historically the issue has been "resolved" by: if we were in SLC w/ D's mom - we did it C-day and I was a little bummed, but come on - it's still Christmas, right?! Then if we were in CO - we celebrated on C-eve. So this has worked thus far but now we are on our own. We are not going to SLC or CO for the holidays and so an ongoing argument has ensued over when Cmas opening would take place. The reason this is a fight is because Dane is actually fighting for this rather than letting me win, which is fine. Dane doesn't slap down his man card often at all. In fact, when he slaps it down, that's the end of the convo/fight/whatever. And he slaps it down so rare that I don't mind shutting up when he pulls it out. But this time I wasn't going for it. To date I have never fought back on a man card but Cmas is very important to me. Well - to make a boring story long, my mom said, when she saw the presents under our tree, "it's going to take you two days just to get through all this!". At that point there was a loose discussion and somehow in the fray it was decided that Dane and I would open "half" our presents on C-eve. Up till now when it was suggested we do "half" it was always I open all my gifts on C-eve, which is not fun for me because I get off on the giving part and the funny stories surrounding the gifts. In this scenario, we would just open "half".
So C-eve comes around and Dane and I laze about the house in sweats, eat snacks, make cookies, watch The Exorcism of Emily Rose - the usual holiday stuff. At 8:00 we decide to start opening gifts but a fight develops as to what is considered "half". After a heated discussion, Dane comes up with the brilliant idea to play a game. Using the cards and dice from Cranium, we are to answer questions in order to open a gift. If we guessed wrong, the present would be out of commission for the rest of the night. If we guessed right, we could open a gift or sacrafice our gift to "save" a discarded gift for the other to open. We did other things too like a "blue" roll/card would earn another gift, a Club Cranium seal earned another gift, a "purple" roll meant the non-opener got to pick the gift instead. So what could have been a boring "okay now you open your gift - yeah - now I'll open mine." turned into an awesome game with acting, sculpting, word games, etc. We only opened about 1/3 the gifts in the four hours we were playing, but it was a great time. We now have our new tradition.
As for gifts, I got my usual fray of gift cards - AWESOME! And a ton of other great toys, clothes, books, shoes, games, puzzles, etc. But the most wonderful, most surprising gift was a three tiered diamond heart and white gold necklace. It's beautiful - it looks like it belongs to a heiress or something. Dane said that I have the best luck w/ necklaces (not losing them or the stones in them) so that's why he chose it. I told him I am only to wear it when supervised. Dane got a whole bunch of stuff but the best stuff is somewhat private, though extremely fun in nature. He got the biggest kick out of the light up boobie and bikini butane lighter I got him.
The rest of the weekend was spent playing games with Nick and Mog. It seems so juvenille but it is true - Dane and I have more fun chilling at home w/ our 17 year old neighbor and our 30-something virgin (in every way from sex to beverages) than we do going out and getting crazy. I should rephrase that. We enjoy staying home on a regular basis so that when we go out, it makes it that much more fun.
No plan for new year's yet though we might cab it down to Daman's for food, fun, and spirits. We'll see. The other plans include sushi at Tuna House (walking distance), downtown extravaganza, mystery plans - who knows. Whatever we do, it should be a lot of fun!
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