though the shopping outside is frightful
Looks like I'm going to have to get used to borrowing this laptop. Too bad my laptop had to die during my gift-buying month. The stores around here like to remind us that Christmas is coming up fast by decorating as soon as it even looks like November's creeping up, playing Christmas songs, launching the Christmas trees, and festooning everything with wreaths.
It's depressing, because I know that by the time Christmas time actually comes along, I will be getting tired of this holiday spirit nonsense. Which is sad, because I do love Christmas in sensible moderation. I mean, why do people DO this to themselves? We just get out of a giant family eating holiday and launch ourselves into another family eating holiday, this one with the added stress of presents (like a birthday!) and some of the romantic implications of Valentine's Day and the religious attachment of Easter, if you swing that way religiously. Really, Christmas is like our conglomerate holiday of everything. Except for Halloween. Those two don't mix, as evidenced by Tim Burton.
My point is one would think that everyone's feeling burned out by the time Christmas finally comes along, mainly because the holiday season is a demanding asshole. We really didn't learn to space these holidays out very well.
It's depressing, because I know that by the time Christmas time actually comes along, I will be getting tired of this holiday spirit nonsense. Which is sad, because I do love Christmas in sensible moderation. I mean, why do people DO this to themselves? We just get out of a giant family eating holiday and launch ourselves into another family eating holiday, this one with the added stress of presents (like a birthday!) and some of the romantic implications of Valentine's Day and the religious attachment of Easter, if you swing that way religiously. Really, Christmas is like our conglomerate holiday of everything. Except for Halloween. Those two don't mix, as evidenced by Tim Burton.
My point is one would think that everyone's feeling burned out by the time Christmas finally comes along, mainly because the holiday season is a demanding asshole. We really didn't learn to space these holidays out very well.