Mine is in a right mood.
*Complained we didn't stay up to exchange gifts at midnight even though he made no mention of it. We did gifts with the kids in the morning last year instead of on our own and it was nicer. I thought we were doing that again. No, apparently I have thwarted his tradition.
*Didn't come to bed at all and had to be called up for the kids to open their stockings.
*Played on his PSP while they did stockings.
*Camped out in the loo for nearly an hour making them wait to open their sacks. Bless 'em.
*Complained about having 'no time' this morning. As a way of hammering home that he didn't want to go to my Mum's (despite agreeing weeks ago to go) at any mention of exchanging our gifts to each other he has said "there isn't time" despite it being more than 2 hours til we had to leave for lunch- not including his hour in the loo. Now we are back, he still maintains there is no time as I am off out (without him thank God) to my sisters for tea in an hour. Basically he prefered staying in last year as cooking our own dinner was 'less stressful' and had no time restraints.
*Compained that it is a bit of a mad scrum when presents are opened at my parents. It is a bit manic, but it has been like that for as long as he has known me and been coming for Christmas (20 years!). In his head, real life is a place where people take it in turn to open a gift each and admire each others things.....I've been to his house too for Christmas when his Mum and Dad still did Christmas (now they just go away on holiday) and that didn't happen there either.
*Ducked out of going to my sisters later. "I've done my duty"
And I imagine at the rate he is going there will be other daft excuses to put off gift giving until it is officially no longer Christmas day.
Contemplates whether there is anything perishable in his presents and whether they can instead be put away for his birthday in March, the ungrateful sod
Rant over.