NOT A MEME
I'm amused at the meme fever on my friends list. I have to admitt that the Nosey-Parker segment of my personality is happy to know all of this new trivia. It seems that with the recent snowfall here in the Northeast (and upper midwest I believe) and the corporations chomping at the bit, we will just blow by Thanksgiving and freefall into the Christmas season and I'm in list making mode. Grocery lists, Christmas card lists, Holiday shopping idea lists, household to do lists...it's knee-jerk to to list memes.
I said Christmas season didn't I. Was it always a season? I hate the frequency that I'm saying "Back when I was a kid" but back when I was a kid it didn't seem to be a whole season. There was a tree to put up and letter to Santa a couple of weeks before, the Santa's beard/cottonball calendar to be made at school and then suddenly it was Christmas morning. I opened a few gifts, watched other people open theirs, had an awesome meal with family, played with my toys some more and then went to bed. The tree was usually down within the week. Ah well, as long as the push of red and green and overlit chaos doesn't enter my home for another couple of weeks at least, I can deal with it. I'm not out in public enough for it to affect me. Not in the way that it hits the poor retail employees at the mall. They have my deepest sympathy every single year.
So, cheers...enjoy the memes, 'tis the season?
I said Christmas season didn't I. Was it always a season? I hate the frequency that I'm saying "Back when I was a kid" but back when I was a kid it didn't seem to be a whole season. There was a tree to put up and letter to Santa a couple of weeks before, the Santa's beard/cottonball calendar to be made at school and then suddenly it was Christmas morning. I opened a few gifts, watched other people open theirs, had an awesome meal with family, played with my toys some more and then went to bed. The tree was usually down within the week. Ah well, as long as the push of red and green and overlit chaos doesn't enter my home for another couple of weeks at least, I can deal with it. I'm not out in public enough for it to affect me. Not in the way that it hits the poor retail employees at the mall. They have my deepest sympathy every single year.
So, cheers...enjoy the memes, 'tis the season?