All of a sudden I have this wacky desire to do the whole xmas bit. This has never happened to be me before! I am not a xmas person! I don’t like the whole, “we cut down a tree to put up for a month and then decorate the hell out of it, shove a bunch of decorated boxes containing stuff no one really needs under it, and drive ourselves crazy over the holiday stress” thing. I don’t like santa, never have, and I hate being the center of attention when opening a gift, mostly because I hate pretending I like something that is purely crap and ‘thank you’ never seems to be enough for the stuff I do like. I’m not a good gift receiver (as you can plainly tell).
How did I suddenly get here? Well, I wrapped the gifts we bought for our Wisconsin niece and nephew this weekend and then realized I had nowhere to put them. I am shipping them, so it’s not a big deal, but I got a strong urge to put up a tree under which we would store the gifts until they take a trip to the post office. I resisted the urge but it continued to plague me until one night I came home from work and spit out, “I want to put up a tree!” And my husband gave me a bewildered look and said he was okay with that. Then I went on my merry way, reminiscing over the wooden ornaments from my childhood that are stored away and waiting for fresh air.
Next up: stockings. Stockings are stupid! They contain a bunch useless crap that just gets tossed in the trash! I mean, sometimes you get useful stuff like toothbrushes (who doesn’t need a new one?) and lotion but really – no one needs another pair of snowflake socks. NO ONE. But ya know what? I kinda want stockings even if they have nothing in them. I’m off to etsy to find a stocking for Jack, at least.
The craziness ends there, at least. I can’t think of any other traditional xmas things that I really want. Okay, well, I DID buy some egg nog, and I also have apple cider in the fridge. But at least those count as food…
I think I am just really sad that we aren’t going to Wisconsin this year. First time in 9 years or so!
I’m typically kind of a grinch, but one who has apparently just been possessed by holiday spirit…
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