Tag: Christmas

Up Early

I am up before dawn on a Sunday.  Check that, I am up and dressed and functioning WAY before dawn on a Sunday.

What calamity could possibly have resulted in me getting up this early on the one day where we’re normally most likely to sleep very late?

Wrapping.

I will be glad when Christmas gets here so I won’t have to worry about this stuff anymore.

Fail

The concept of christmas shopping online is not new. It’s something that millions of Americans have done for a few years now.

Why then would a company ship an item during the holiday season in a box that has both the name of the item and a graphical depiction of the item printed on it? Don’t they know that people buy christmas gifts for other people who live in the same house and that sometimes the receiver of the gift gets home from work before the giver of the gift?

Thanks, you grinchly schmucks.

Lights

The living room has been decorated up the ying yang for Christmas, and after about an hour or so worth of work by me and my step daughter, we now have Christmas lights outside too.

Tis the season!

Of course I am still severely lacking in holiday spirit.

Christmas Lights

I just ran over to Lowes and bought new indoor/outdoor Christmas lights. I just finished hanging them on the tree. I used two strands for a total of 300 lights.

That leaves 750 lights to hang outside.

hehe

I may have over done it a little bit.

18 Days Till Christmas

There are 18 days left until Christmas. Do I have any Christmas spirit yet? Oh, hells no.

I’m one of those increasingly rare people who enjoy Christmas but get really sick of it really fast. If it were up to me the tree would go up no earlier than December 18th, the shopping would start about the same time, and the whole thing would be packed up and put away by New Years Day.

Having said that, the reality is society won’t let me wait that long. Shopping commenced in earnest last night, and some preliminary decorating will start today. The kids are at their dad’s this weekend so we won’t do too much without them. We’re just trying to get a jump on it to make it easier for them next week.

I’m not happy about it, but I’m resigned to the inevitability. Scroll back through this blog to late September and you will see a camera phone snap of Christmas stuff being sold at toys-r-us. The season has been in pretty much full swing since early October. We live very close to a busy financial district in Salem, NH, and the Christmas shopping traffic nightmare that hits us annually has been running non stop for a month already.

There is nothing we can do to fight it off. Christmas season is a 3-4 month event now and no matter how badly I want it to be reduced to two weeks, it just isn’t happening. There is just too much greed out there to let us have a simple spirit of giving.