Sitting on the balcony and noticed neighbors with Christmas lights were laughing and having a party.
It took me a minute to piece it together; I forgot about Christmas parties. I used to really like them and forgot about them completely.
It's been a long and brutal 3 years.
I hadn't really heard about any this year myself either. I haven't been to a non-family one in years. Christmas has seemed kinda dead this year but I do get to look forward to much better Christmas family stuff. Thanksgiving and Christmas last year were basically the worst in my life, but I used that as a chance to learn from it and take the bull more by the horns.
With friends we usually do New Years Eve instead and had totally thrown away clown world last year already, so it will be normal.