But even then it feels like it was always months away until it wasn't.

Time sure does fly. Weather seems great where you are! I wouldn't mind the cool weather at least in colder weather you can wear more layers. Where it's humid in my country and well we can't really just take off our clothes :')

sorry to hear that you have family drama. hopefully things settle and u guys can enjoy a great Christmas together!

The talent show looks great and looks like everybody had fun despite being a small school but I think that's great in it's own way everyone can know each other and it's a close group hopefully nobody alone.

I also found the data you shared interesting. I didn't know UK was poor aside from London. I always thought they were doing good because their currency was strong .

Ya china has had a lot of issues especially the real estate problem where there was a lot of projects being abandoned but people already paid some money upfront for it if im not wrong.

Good luck on getting fat, that should be easy to do :). have a good Christmas man and good idea on filtering out the negativity , that's really not needed in the Christmas vibes