Holidaze

This year I do admit that I’m not feeling really holiday-like.  Part of this is just how I am.  I tend to hang on to summer as long as I can and while I’m trying to embrace winter (see earlier posting) – I still am most surely a summer girl.  I thrive in the warm to hot weather; I like the feeling of the sun on my skin. Part of it, I think, is that it seems Christmas gets pushed on us earlier and earlier each year.   I remember seeing Christmas decorations out in stores, in the early October!   The other part of it is how commercialized the season tends to be.  Sometimes it seems to be more about who gets or gives the biggest and boldest rather than being nice to each other.  Of course there is debate about the this being the actual birthdate of Christ , be that as it may shouldn’t the season still be more about having an attitude that is like the golden rule?   Instead of black Friday craziness?  I do not do black Friday.  Well, at least I don’t do the doorbuster thing.   Black Friday now begins on Thanksgiving evening.  So now, directly after being thankful for what we already have, some feel the need to act like animals or worse in order to get some cheaply priced items.   Alright, that statement isn’t mine – I saw it floating around the web – but it’s true!   It’s true I don’t go out shopping for doorbusters no matter how great of deal - because I have no real urge to see society and people at their worst.  The cheap prices don’t make up for it.

  

Well, I still want to enjoy the holiday season.  Maybe it is alright to not be real into it some years.   Maybe a few simple Christmas decorations up, a Christmas card list of only the closest people and hopefully forgetting for the most part about the holiday yummies.

Don’t get me wrong – I do enjoy parts of the holiday season -

Holiday shopping is something I enjoy a great deal.   I was surprised to learn some people don’t like this.  Maybe I have a future in personal shopping then because I like finding unique gifts for people.  While gift baskets and fruit cake are fine – I like them!   I like finding things that people really enjoy – that they haven’t even thought of for themselves. 

I like the outdoor lights.  Mind you not that I put up a lot of them, but I do like seeing the ones that people in the neighborhood put up, from those with a Religious theme to those that look like gingerbread houses, or one I particularly enjoy – the house the decorates the woods near their home with multiple themes that somehow all fit together … there is something special about lights gently lighting the snow on the ground.

Another holiday that I really enjoy is New Year’s.  Time for the “Twilight Zone” marathon, and the airings of “Back to the Future”.  There’s our small holiday family and friends gathering and maybe, just maybe- if my friends are willing to do it – going out to rock in the new year.