Tomorrow is December. I have been holding out as long as possible to acknowledge that we are practically in the midst of the Christmas season. I will try not to acknowledge it for ten more hours at least. However, I did put one or two ornaments on my friends' Christmas tree, I did participate in snowflake-making last night at FHE (some of my FHE brothers surprisingly adept at making snowflakes), and I did play a Christmas song on the piano for my religion class today, but only because Brother Alford specifically requested it.
This holding out deal isn't because I don't love Christmas. Let's get this straight: I LOVE CHRISTMAS! The reasons why I don't want to commemorate celebrating until December 1st are as follows:
1. I feel like sometimes Thanksgiving is a little overlooked. Of course it is a major holiday, and everyone loves it because well we get to sit around and stuff ourselves with positively scrumtrilescent food. (Definition of scrumtrilescent: "A thing that is so wonderful that it is not accurately described by the words delicious, glowing or divine. Short hand for 'every word of positive nature in the dictionary at once.'" -Urban Dictionary) Thanksgiving ends and Black Friday commences. There are sales on Thanksgiving Day, people are lining outside of stores at who knows what time in the morning, and there are even post-Black Friday sales. It's just a little ironic and I don't appreciate the fact that we dedicate a whole holiday to gratitude and then the next night (or the evening) of we are dedicating our time to commercialism. I think Black Friday is a great idea, and I for one appreciate a good sale just as much as anyone else, but I think we should postpone Black Friday a week or so.
2. The Christmas season makes me incurably homesick. And I just don't want to start crying willy nilly until the appropriate time. Even when I am home for Christmas I am homesick. The snow and the trees and all the ornaments and songs makes me think of my family and how I wish that we could all cram into one house again for Christmas.
3. The start of the Christmas season also means the start of the end of the semester push and who ever wants to think about that? Not I.
4. Christmas makes me think of money, and I hate that. It's not about money or presents or anything like that. But I get stressed out about all the presents that my parents are getting for me when really I don't need a new coat or new shoes (although I do need those new socks) and I wish that I wasn't so selfish. I'm not going to lie, I love getting presents, but I wish I didn't. I also think too much about what I am going to get others because I LOVE giving people presents. More than I love getting presents. But I always want to give people the best possible presents, but I hate spending money. Yeah, figure that one out for me.
5. Did I mention that it makes me homesick?
So tomorrow I can start listening to Bing Crosby, the Carpenter's Christmas Album, Peter, Paul, and Mary's Christmas Album and my brother's annual Christmas mash up, and then the crying can commence.
Until then: Happy Last Day of November!
This holding out deal isn't because I don't love Christmas. Let's get this straight: I LOVE CHRISTMAS! The reasons why I don't want to commemorate celebrating until December 1st are as follows:
1. I feel like sometimes Thanksgiving is a little overlooked. Of course it is a major holiday, and everyone loves it because well we get to sit around and stuff ourselves with positively scrumtrilescent food. (Definition of scrumtrilescent: "A thing that is so wonderful that it is not accurately described by the words delicious, glowing or divine. Short hand for 'every word of positive nature in the dictionary at once.'" -Urban Dictionary) Thanksgiving ends and Black Friday commences. There are sales on Thanksgiving Day, people are lining outside of stores at who knows what time in the morning, and there are even post-Black Friday sales. It's just a little ironic and I don't appreciate the fact that we dedicate a whole holiday to gratitude and then the next night (or the evening) of we are dedicating our time to commercialism. I think Black Friday is a great idea, and I for one appreciate a good sale just as much as anyone else, but I think we should postpone Black Friday a week or so.
2. The Christmas season makes me incurably homesick. And I just don't want to start crying willy nilly until the appropriate time. Even when I am home for Christmas I am homesick. The snow and the trees and all the ornaments and songs makes me think of my family and how I wish that we could all cram into one house again for Christmas.
3. The start of the Christmas season also means the start of the end of the semester push and who ever wants to think about that? Not I.
4. Christmas makes me think of money, and I hate that. It's not about money or presents or anything like that. But I get stressed out about all the presents that my parents are getting for me when really I don't need a new coat or new shoes (although I do need those new socks) and I wish that I wasn't so selfish. I'm not going to lie, I love getting presents, but I wish I didn't. I also think too much about what I am going to get others because I LOVE giving people presents. More than I love getting presents. But I always want to give people the best possible presents, but I hate spending money. Yeah, figure that one out for me.
5. Did I mention that it makes me homesick?
So tomorrow I can start listening to Bing Crosby, the Carpenter's Christmas Album, Peter, Paul, and Mary's Christmas Album and my brother's annual Christmas mash up, and then the crying can commence.
Until then: Happy Last Day of November!
One of these years we really should rent a big cabin in the woods and all get together for Christmas. I think that would be awesome. I miss you guys too!
ReplyDeletethat's the best idea EVER!!! i would LOVE to do that!
ReplyDeleteMERRY CHRISTMAS!! bust out the music and...festiviousness! :)
ReplyDeleteNow that I'm home on my own computer, maybe I can comment on your blog and it will stick. I think they should wait until December to have Black Friday too and I think it should be called White something. Black is so gloom & doom. It doesn't seem happy or joyful at all like Christmas should be!
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