Christmas without family is like Chocolate without Taste

This is the first time I've worked on Christmas. Although I doubt it will be the last. One of the disadvantages of this career is when everyone else is celebrating, we're the busiest. All the first 3 weeks of December, we'll be lucky to do 50 people during service. Then Christmas comes along and we get fubared. Over 150 covers. Who goes out for Christmas Breakfast!? You're supposed to be at home with your family opening presents. Not telling us your eggs are slightly underdone and you want your meal free. This is probably why lots of cooks are totally fed up with Christmas, for us it's the most stressful time of the year, on top of the shopping and stuff that normal deal with. Work is busier than ever, people are short tempered, and we don't get to spend any time with our families ourselves.

The reason I'm ranting is because I didn't get to spend Christmas with my family. I think I'm the first person to ever miss a Christmas in my family. That's hard. It used to be, when I was living at home and saw them every day, that I didn't think it would be that bad to have a christmas without them. OH MAN was I wrong. All I could think about for the last week is how it doesn't feel like christmas. It just feels like another week of the year.

I can't wait to go home. I hope it snows. Theres so much stuff I have to do. It seems like every time I think about it theres another 3 or 4 things I have to add to my list of stuff to do. 1 week isn't going to be enough. You're going to have to cuff me and drug me to get me back on that plane at the end of it.