merry christmas and happy holidays!
I love Christmas. I love Christmas in this really obnoxious, obsessive way. I love Christmas so much that last year, when I moved out, I bought a six-foot artificial tree for our apartment even though I planned on spending most of the holidays at my parents'. I love gingerbread. I love Christmas lights. I love wrapping gifts. I love Christmas carols. I love busy malls. I love all of it. this is no surprise to those who know me well.
however, something slightly less obvious occurred to me this year as being a thing I love about the holiday season. for the last week, I've been desperately trying to map out some time to watch Skins on DVD and wrap gifts. I finally got to do this last night for an hour in between finishing knitting a scarf for Paul and Christmas Eve dinner with my family, and it was fantastic. it's kind of silly (and I realize Skins is hardly holiday-appropriate), but I had such a strong desire to do it. this is how I wrapped gifts last year; while Pearl was out, I just spread everything out on my floor in front of the television and bingewrapped.
I feel so busy all the time, and I'm not sure how to explain it...when I think about how I split up my time, I realize I could probably be using it a lot better. but I feel emotionally busy, if that's a thing.
and so it's nice, when you think about it, that the holidays come at the end of the year. I love these built-in little pockets of time, like wrapping gifts while watching television, that allow you to pause and reflect; to do similar things as you did in previous years; to think about where you've come from and where you're going.
and when I think about these things, I feel so, so lucky that I cannot even try to explain.
however, something slightly less obvious occurred to me this year as being a thing I love about the holiday season. for the last week, I've been desperately trying to map out some time to watch Skins on DVD and wrap gifts. I finally got to do this last night for an hour in between finishing knitting a scarf for Paul and Christmas Eve dinner with my family, and it was fantastic. it's kind of silly (and I realize Skins is hardly holiday-appropriate), but I had such a strong desire to do it. this is how I wrapped gifts last year; while Pearl was out, I just spread everything out on my floor in front of the television and bingewrapped.
I feel so busy all the time, and I'm not sure how to explain it...when I think about how I split up my time, I realize I could probably be using it a lot better. but I feel emotionally busy, if that's a thing.
and so it's nice, when you think about it, that the holidays come at the end of the year. I love these built-in little pockets of time, like wrapping gifts while watching television, that allow you to pause and reflect; to do similar things as you did in previous years; to think about where you've come from and where you're going.
and when I think about these things, I feel so, so lucky that I cannot even try to explain.