Not long until Christmas now!

My weekend was marginally more exciting than I thought it would be! My student asked me if I wanted to have lunch after my class on saturday so we went to their hotel and as luck would have it, Jenn was in the area as well so everyone finally got to meet! I am always telling Jenn about my students and vice versa so it was good that they got to put faces to names!! Lunch was yummy and then Daisuke called because he wanted me to come to the new shopping complex as he had found some stuff that he wanted for the gym. I am normally loathe to spend money on that kind of stuff but as I had bought some stuff for my new adventures at the gym last week, I couldn`t really justify saying that he didn`t need it!! (although really, how many tracksuits does one man need!?!?!) Saturday evening was low key, Joey and I just chilled out at home and Daisuke actually came back around 11pm because he had to be out early to play badminton in some kind of inter-school teacher tournament thingy on Sunday. I had made plans for sunday with my friend Rumi (an old student of mine) so Joey and I went over to her place for lunch. Joey has had a very sociable week as Rumi has a 1 year old daughter, Ai so it was another playdate for him!!! It was good to catch up with Rumi as I used to teach her twice a week until Joey was born and then she got pregnant so we never got around to starting classes again and never seemed to find time to meet up. I was a bit shocked though because apparently she had recently found out that her husband ( who is about 10/12 years older than her and had been married before) actually had two children with his ex-wife that she had known nothing about when they got married. Now I know that this kind of stuff happens in soap operas/ the Rikki Lake show but I couldn`t believe that she was taking it all so calmly, especially because her 17 year old stepson (who she didn`t know existed until recently) was now living with them!!! Rumi is about 1or 2 years older than me and I was trying to think how I would deal with having a teenage boy living with me. She is definitely a bigger person than I am!!! I can`t even fathom my reaction if Daisuke suddenly turned round to me and said "by the way honey, I have two children that I never told you anything about..." He probably wouldn`t leave the conversation with many of his teeth in tact!!! On other topics, I really can`t shake my "bah humbug" feeling about Xmas this year and I am not sure why. Usually I get a little bit excited, even if I am sad about being away from home but this year there is part of me that just wants to ignore the whole holiday season and hibernate until January! Hopefully I will snap out of my Scrooge-like mood before Xmas though!!!