I do this every year. I decide to get a jump on Christmas by shopping early, getting the cards, beating the rush. I'm all Christmas-y and buying trinkets and planning how I'm going to decorate and what I'm going to bake. Then on say, December 3, I am so over it. I say to myself, "Ugh! Is it still frickin' Christmas? When will it EVER END! Why must "they" torture me?????" I really need to chill out. (I should point out that I'm not traditionally religious, so I have no real anchor for my holiday beliefs.)
I have been trying to exercise more and eat less sugar to keep my mood in check. I'm acing the exercise, but the sugar just keeps sneaking in, right behind the salt and grease. How can you pass up pumpkin ice cream, ever? Must....be...more....vigilant!. Hey, there's a cookie in my mouth and I don't know how it got there! And so it goes.
Time for some sappy old Christmas movies or, and I'm embarrassed about this: re-runs of holiday-themed TV shows. They make me so feel so happy and filled to the brim with yuletide cheer! How ridiculous in a grown woman! Maybe it's the encapsulated nature of TV holidays. They have a holiday dilemma, they fix it or the live with it and laugh about it, and it's all over in a half an hour. What am I saying? It's over in twenty minutes without commercials! Now that's my kind of holiday.
I'm sure I will rally, shortly, but until then, just call me Scroogette.
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speaking of hum & bug, I am dreading the onslaught of xmas cards that have generic family newsletters enclosed. i cringe when I read these, i usually get them from people that i probably shouldn't even be exchanging cards with since, if they were really my friends, I'd know what they've been up to all year right?
ReplyDeleteMy cards usually just let people know I'm still alive and at the same address (and still able to send a card). I have lost my address book, so this year should be interesting!
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