In my habitual attempts to a) beat the Christmas shopping crowds and b) spread the cost of Christmas over several credit card periods, I of course started my shopping early, and am pleased to note that I'm about 3/4 finished.
In a fit of pre-Christmas frenzy, I even wrapped a few pressies tonight! (Maybe it's the heat that caused that ~ I've heard that heat stress can make people do odd things).
Anyway, that put me in a Christmassy frame of mind, so here are a few thoughts on Christmas, in November :
- What I love about Christmas - I love finding the just the right (or at least, sufficiently suitable) pressie for family and friends.
- What I don't love - Opening the credit card bills from November thru' January.
- I love putting the pressies under the tree and the anticipation of giving.
- I don't love wrapping the damn things, which seems to get more and more difficult and fiddly every year.
- I love all the excitement of the lead-up to Christmas, and all the little (secular) traditions that go with it.
- I don't love the day itself very much.
- I love listening to Cyndi Lauper and the Hives' 'Christmas Duel' and anyone doing 'White Christmas'.
- I don't love hearing ex-Australian Idol contestants hamming it up on 'Carols by Candlelight'.
- And I love putting up the Christmas tree. I love decorating it, I love looking at it, I love the Christmassy feeling of it; I love it so much that I'm going to put mine up tomorrow evening. ...As long as the little plastic branches don't wilt in this heat :-P
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