Life is back in it s regular routine, which I must admit is so very refreshing, but I can feel the winter doldrums sneaking up on me. Shhh… If you are quiet, you can feel the vibrations too! Thud, thud, thud. What’s a girl to do to liven things up a bit?
Liven things up? Wait, wasn’t I just kavetching (yes, I just did indeed make up that word because “complain” didn’t have enough spunk for me) about how December is way too harried for anyone’s good? Yes, that was me. Well, what I am trying to say, rather inartfully, is that there must be some sort of happy medium between the frenetic pace of life from Thanksgiving through New Years and the screeching halt that takes place on January 2.
In the same vein, isn’t it strange how Christmas decorations that look so gorgeous during the month of December look absolutely hideous once the day has passed? Don’t you just cringe when you see a Christmas wreath still hanging on someone’s door these days? Would you be caught dead wearing red and green together right now? (By the way, the correct answers to these three questions are listed below. Check for your score.)
I think Christmas decorations look equally hideous when stores display them waaaaaaaay too early, like before the Halloween stuff. It’s downright unsightly, garish even. Take a hint, Walmart and CVS, to name a few! And the same goes for the hokey Christmas tunes before Thanksgiving! I bet Miles Standish doesn’t appreciate being one-upped like that. Furthermore it doesn’t make me buy more stuff. Instead it makes me shudder, put down what I was going to buy, and run out of the store to buy my Halloween costume elsewhere.
Oops, gotta go! I just remembered that my mailbox is still decorated with ivy. I better go take it down before someone starts blogging about how lame I am.
LibbY
Question 1: Yes
Question 2: Yes
Question 3: No