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With Thanksgiving behind me (and I must say I was very disappointed that I didn’t find some gold ring lodged in the middle of my overly priced ham) I am preparing for Christmas.
I am not a big Christmas person… in fact, we usually don’t even do anything on Christmas day. There is no big exchange of gifts or anything like that mainly because I put all my focus into Thanksgiving. Since this year Thanksgiving was a bust, I have decided to have a holly jolly Christmas. I am new to this, so I don’t even know where to start.
One thing that I definitely do each year is send out way too many Christmas cards. I have a list, and I cross reference it with the list from previous years so I know how many rude people didn’t send me cards back. I always vow to stop sending those people cards, but never do.
I had been hoping to send my cards out the day after Thanksgiving but I haven’t even picked them out yet! Talk about running behind. Hopefully I will have this project out of this way by the weekend.1
By the end of this year, I will be a year older. The birthday gets all wrapped up in the holidays so it’s pointless. In fact, I don’t even get birthday gifts… I get Birthmas presents. Like seriously, what the hell is that. And it would be one thing if the present was something bigger or better, but its the same present everyone else would get if their birthday didn’t fall around Christmas. I wonder how people would react if this year I gave them their X-mas present with a birthday card and announced that it was for both and to not expect anything else from me for the rest of the year.
All of that aside, all I ever really expect each year is a birthday cake and some candles. As a child I didn’t usually get one because my parents worked a lot, so my DH makes sure to get me one each year. Even though I know it’s coming, seeing it makes me smile more than anything.
I am happy to say I am feeling 70x better than I had been these past few weeks… I’m back to my usual cranky, outspoken self which seems to be a big relief to those around me. I am sure somewhere they are secretly wishing I’d go back to moping though.
I must say bye for now, I have much to do and I am hungry. Sadly, I am on a diet so my choices are limited.
PS – I will return to dropping Entrecards next week. Sorry for being such a slacker.
- i’m not holding my breath on it [↩]
