Christmas blues
Every year I look forward to the arrival of Christmas. This year was no different. My sister said to my aunt I spend like $500 a year on new decorations, ornaments, tree, etc. I disputed her when she said this before I started buying things for this year's decorating back in November but as the days began to pass I guess I'll have to agree with her.
Every year I have a theme with the tree. In 2002 it was silver and blue when my aunt passed away. 2003 I think it was Fairies because my aunt liked Fairies, 2004 red/green, 2005 red/gold with red and gold bows and this year was white/silver snowflakes. With the 2005 Swarovski Snowflake tree topper and all the different kind of snowflakes ornaments and lights I bought from the Christmas Factory in PA, Macys, Ebay, Crate and Barrel, and the LED white/blue tinged lights I added to the traditional white light to the tree to give the effect of ice to the tree, I definately hit $500. Never mind the $87 tree my roommate split to the cost with me.
Ever since my aunt passed away I've gone all out at Christmas. When I was in NC I never really decorated because I'd always be heading up to NJ for Christmas. When I got back to NJ Aunt Glor was always ready to decorate and I was like "I just got here! I'm tired!" Now it's a different story. Saturday I spent 7 hrs making 300-400 cookies and was up until 3:30am. Christmas I went down the Shore by Eric's family's because the celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve. I didn't get home until 3:30am again. Then I was up and cooking by 11am Christmas Day. I love cooking big meals for a bunch of people. This year it was 10. Christmas gives me this energy to goto the malls,shop, fight traffic, decorate, bake, cook, and just get into all those kinds of Christmas things. When I add up my bills from gift purchases, food, and decorations, I'm easily at $1000 and usually past that. When Christmas ends though I'm blah.. I wish it would never end. It's a really stressful period in some ways, but in others it's like when I used to dance around to Madonna with glowsticks drunk off my ass. :) Ahh, the good ol days. How some people don't like Christmas and all the "cheer" is beyond me. I guess they're just bitter people who don't like seeing other people happy when they allow themselves to be miserable. Oh well. Their loss.
Maybe I'll edit this entry a little more later. Dunkin Donuts now and doing laundry which is almost done. Sigh.
Every year I have a theme with the tree. In 2002 it was silver and blue when my aunt passed away. 2003 I think it was Fairies because my aunt liked Fairies, 2004 red/green, 2005 red/gold with red and gold bows and this year was white/silver snowflakes. With the 2005 Swarovski Snowflake tree topper and all the different kind of snowflakes ornaments and lights I bought from the Christmas Factory in PA, Macys, Ebay, Crate and Barrel, and the LED white/blue tinged lights I added to the traditional white light to the tree to give the effect of ice to the tree, I definately hit $500. Never mind the $87 tree my roommate split to the cost with me.
Ever since my aunt passed away I've gone all out at Christmas. When I was in NC I never really decorated because I'd always be heading up to NJ for Christmas. When I got back to NJ Aunt Glor was always ready to decorate and I was like "I just got here! I'm tired!" Now it's a different story. Saturday I spent 7 hrs making 300-400 cookies and was up until 3:30am. Christmas I went down the Shore by Eric's family's because the celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve. I didn't get home until 3:30am again. Then I was up and cooking by 11am Christmas Day. I love cooking big meals for a bunch of people. This year it was 10. Christmas gives me this energy to goto the malls,shop, fight traffic, decorate, bake, cook, and just get into all those kinds of Christmas things. When I add up my bills from gift purchases, food, and decorations, I'm easily at $1000 and usually past that. When Christmas ends though I'm blah.. I wish it would never end. It's a really stressful period in some ways, but in others it's like when I used to dance around to Madonna with glowsticks drunk off my ass. :) Ahh, the good ol days. How some people don't like Christmas and all the "cheer" is beyond me. I guess they're just bitter people who don't like seeing other people happy when they allow themselves to be miserable. Oh well. Their loss.
Maybe I'll edit this entry a little more later. Dunkin Donuts now and doing laundry which is almost done. Sigh.