Christmas

My family Christmas plans is odd in a way that we can make a plan a year in advance and remind people every week but they will somehow find a way to make that plan no longer work at the last second. By doing this it forces my family to make a decision to either go to the side that makes the plan no longer work or go to the side of the family that we had made plans with originally. Somehow we always end up going to the family that changed the plans. We typically just go there and exchange gifts and then leave. As apposed to going to the other side of the family's house where we would exchange gifts, eat a meal, and then go do some sort of family activity. Which seems lame but it beats just walking across the street and doing nothing the rest of the day.
The only real reason I feel as why we still go to the people who changed the plans house is because we live so close to them so we kind of have to go there because nobody wants to have to deal with the numerous awkward encounters later. Unfortunately due to the lack of our ability to deal with awkward encounters I don't get to see the other side of my family very often so my relationship with them is very weak. Also I feel as if my family is kind of pitted against each other due to the fact that people on one side will get very irritated if you don't spend every waking moment with them. Thus being the reason why my holidays are very weird.