Wednesday, November 30, 2011

AWOL

Is everybody but me getting in the Christmas spirit?!   I don't know what it is, but I am having a hard time feeling it.   Just like so many of you, Christmas is my favorite time of year and I normally love putting up the tree and decorating and baking and all that stuff.  So far this year, though, I could just care less.   Maybe because it's still November.   Maybe on December 1 (tomorrow??) I'll magically ooze with Christmas spirit.   I thought I was getting there yesterday when I turned my radio to the all-Christmas songs station.   I even put up a sign outside my office door warning of the Christmas spirit within.   (My boss pretends to be a scrooge.)   And I listened to Christmas music for a few hours.    Then I turned back to talk radio.   Bah humbug!

  

We have two huge trees.   They are gorgeous . . . BUT . . . they drop a bazillion leaves in the fall.  If you like to rake leaves, then it is perfection!    However, neither me nor my husband like to rake (who am I kidding??!!  I never rake!  My husband does it all!).   This fall he raked for hours, hauling the leaves out to the street to be picked up.  You could see our lawns again!   Then the wind came . . . and blew them all back.   Curse the wind!   This happened three times.   By the time he was done with the third (and last) time, he looked up at me with this exhausted face and said, "I am NOT putting up Christmas lights this year!  I am too tired."   And he was.   Tired, that is.  He worked hard, and the thought of working even harder to put up the lights was too much.

So, maybe that's part of it.   Not having Christmas lights up.   Or maybe that has nothing to do with my lack of enthusiasm.   I don't know.  I only know that this sucks.  I don't like it.   The Christmas spirit within has gone AWOL.   I'm hopeful it's just temporary.

6 comments:

  1. I go in and out of the Christmas spirit. There's so much that just sucks it right out of me. The news is always big bummer. It's like they try to make it extra bad this time of year. Being far from family can be a bummer. There's no denying money can be a bummer. Say what you want about a simple Christmas and all that, but money does rear it's ugly head. Mostly I'd like to have enough that I could really make a difference to some people I know who need it and deserve it. Their problems are so huge though. Then I feel guilty.

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  2. boy, i sure agree, Tammy. All those things can just totally suck the spirit out. And I'm sure my spiritlessness (is that a word) right now is a combination of things. Maybe I just need a snickers! hahaha

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  3. it will be back .. its all due to the commercial world pushing us from Labor Day to Christmas Day with only a quick stop at Thanksgiving .. at the vet's office they're playing Christmas songs .. GAH ...

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  4. I'm playing Christmas songs right now, hoping something will click in my brain . . .not happening! But I think you're right, Daryl, they are pushing Christmas on us earlier and earlier every year . . . NOW if everybody had a kind and loving Christmas spirit all year, that would be wonderful . . .but no thanks to all the declarations and displays in stores so early.

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  5. I think you'll get that spirit when it snows... which may not happen until *after* Christmas, but that'll probably do it. If so, remember, Christmas is technically 12 days - And I will call upon all 12 of them when necessary! (Take down the tree NOW? But it's STILL CHRISTMAS! ;) )

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  6. Noisy Quiet, I think you may be on to something . . . 12 days of Christmas . . .maybe I should plan on doing something for somebody or some family those 12 days. If that doesn't bring the Christmas spirit, then I think I must be hopeless :)

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