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Wait a minute, this isn't one of those Christmas in July type of things is it?
To be honest I'm a bit of a bah-humbug during Christmas. I don't really enjoy seeing the rest of my family as I think they are all a bunch of snobs... In any case, I'm not particularly excited for it. And being the fairly emotionless, fairly dead inside person that I am it certainly doesn't bring up any new hopes for me.
However, with that being said it's not the season to dread either. For me Christmas is about fellowship with people that you care about and that also care about you. But even more so than that, it's to celebrate the birth of Christ and His coming into the world, so that we may be cleansed of our sins to spend all of eternity with God. By the American standard Christmas is just way too commercialized and materialistic for my tastes. I'm going to keep the CHRIST in Christmas this year and not forget what my Redeemer has done for me.
To be honest I'm a bit of a bah-humbug during Christmas. I don't really enjoy seeing the rest of my family as I think they are all a bunch of snobs... In any case, I'm not particularly excited for it. And being the fairly emotionless, fairly dead inside person that I am it certainly doesn't bring up any new hopes for me.
However, with that being said it's not the season to dread either. For me Christmas is about fellowship with people that you care about and that also care about you. But even more so than that, it's to celebrate the birth of Christ and His coming into the world, so that we may be cleansed of our sins to spend all of eternity with God. By the American standard Christmas is just way too commercialized and materialistic for my tastes. I'm going to keep the CHRIST in Christmas this year and not forget what my Redeemer has done for me.
i find this stuff mildly amusing. i admire "planners", and wish i was one.
for me, aside from concert tickets, plane tickets and the like, i plan most things inside of a 10 day window. and maybe for holidays, add a couple weeks to that. yes, i frustrate some people, but it sort of goes against my nature to be "locked in for stuff" if i can wait as long as possible before someone's plans are dependent upon me.
of course, there are exceptions to this rule, but they tend to be things that i already know i will want to do, such as things i hugely enjoy.
i am not really a holiday person. while i'm especially sensitive to the sentiment behind christmas and find it to be a very meaningful time of year, the fact that it locks up the whole month (or more), creates scheduling nightmares for work, am forced to hear 7 weeks of christmas music blaring everywhere i go, non-stop advertisements and commercials, and people blathering on about their holiday shopping provide all sorts of compelling reason to want to go spend this year's holiday somewhere super-remote, where i wait it out in the beautiful distraction of someplace where they don't pipe christmas music in and have throngs of rude people talking about the "christmas spirit". i dunno where that might be, but i'm prepared to sleep on an airmattress and live on peanut butter and protein shakes to do it.
....so no, i have no plans. : )
for me, aside from concert tickets, plane tickets and the like, i plan most things inside of a 10 day window. and maybe for holidays, add a couple weeks to that. yes, i frustrate some people, but it sort of goes against my nature to be "locked in for stuff" if i can wait as long as possible before someone's plans are dependent upon me.
of course, there are exceptions to this rule, but they tend to be things that i already know i will want to do, such as things i hugely enjoy.
i am not really a holiday person. while i'm especially sensitive to the sentiment behind christmas and find it to be a very meaningful time of year, the fact that it locks up the whole month (or more), creates scheduling nightmares for work, am forced to hear 7 weeks of christmas music blaring everywhere i go, non-stop advertisements and commercials, and people blathering on about their holiday shopping provide all sorts of compelling reason to want to go spend this year's holiday somewhere super-remote, where i wait it out in the beautiful distraction of someplace where they don't pipe christmas music in and have throngs of rude people talking about the "christmas spirit". i dunno where that might be, but i'm prepared to sleep on an airmattress and live on peanut butter and protein shakes to do it.
....so no, i have no plans. : )
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I'm having surgery in the fall, I'll still be in recovery mode in December, if will for once be a quiet Christmas. Fine with me. My frustration is that we have two families to visit Christmas Eve. My Husband works on Christmas Eve day because he's a mail man, so my kids and I go to my family's house then off to my Husband's. I love my Mother in law but she's tense that day and it's stressful. I like seeing my Sister in laws and family. We then get home late, put kids to bed, put stuff under the tree and crash.
I won't physically be able to do a lot this year, so I will shop for my kids early.
I don't want presents for Christmas.
I won't physically be able to do a lot this year, so I will shop for my kids early.
I don't want presents for Christmas.