Things that happen at Christmas when you're an adult

If you want to get technical about it, I have in fact been experiencing Christmas as an adult for the last three years. However, I've spent those three years depending on a teeny student loan while living it large at University, so I'm making the bold decision to discount those as 'adult years'. Now though, my bank deems me financially stable enough to receive their complimentary travel insurance, so alas, there is no denying that adulthood is well and truly here.

Still, complimentary European-only travel insurance doesn't really do much for an adult at Christmas...

1. You wake up early not from excitement, but from your body clock thinking it's a work day.
2. It's hard to be enthusiastic when your system is caffeine free.
3. You're way more excited to give presents than receive them because you've totally bossed your gifts this year.
4. 85% of the presents you receive are pajamas, skincare and candles. And you are pleased as punch.
5. You realise that you could in fact eat chocolate for breakfast without asking your parents permission. The thought is rebelliously tantalising.
6. You decide to eat chocolate for breakfast and immediately regret it.
7. You do not stop eating all day, but you're sure this level of food consumption used to be easier when you were a child.
8. You start to feel a bit icky being in your pjs past eleven.
9. Sitting cross legged on the floor to open presents seems like a good idea until you realise you probably won't be able to stand up again.
10. You actually want to send thank you notes.
11. A message written in a Christmas card makes you tear up.
12. You miss the days when you didn't hang off the end of your parents bed while opening your stocking.
13. Seeing Boxing Day sale furniture adverts on television and wondering why this is still a thing.
14. Getting a selection pack is too amazing for words.
15. Reacting to presents only gets more difficult.
16. Drinking Buck's Fizz before you're even dressed.
17. Still using NORAD to track Santa because obvs.
18. There is a family argument and it is cataclysmic. 
19. You count down the minutes until the Downton Abbey Christmas Special.
20. Your entire family stays in the same room for hours at a time and you aren't sure what to do because this never happens.
21. That one present that makes you wonder who this person thinks you are.
22. Trying to reply to a "Merry Christmas" group text before all the other generic greetings are taken.
23. Reminiscing about that time when winter sales started in-stores on Boxing Day... while filling your online cart on the afternoon of Christmas Day.
24. Considering the size of an army you could assemble and keep well-fed using only the vast amount of chocolate you've received.
25. Not worrying about how awful the weather is outside because you probably won't be leaving your house until 2016.
26. Trying to be tactful when suggesting what you want to watch on TV.
27. Your Facebook feed is full of engagement announcements and baby's first Christmases. It's weird.
28. You yearn for the days when you received a stack of CDs. You regret the yearning because it makes you feel about a thousand years old.
29. You stalk all the Kardashian's Instagrams because you don't know why.
30. Looking forward to days of all Turkey everything.

I hope you guys all had a marvelous Christmas (and that it wasn't too socially awkward...).

~ Eleanor xo