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Bah! humbug!
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To follow on from sleepy's post.......it is too damn early to even contemplate Christmas. I saw the earliest signs of it back in late August...and frankly it just makes the dread and -yes-feeling of pressure -that much greater. It gets worse every year...who else feels this way?
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lol,inaPickle!...same year here and it wouldn't start til after Thanksgiving. Even since coming to the UK it has gotten progressivly earlier. Dot-it is interesting what you say -since my marriage collasped I have had 2 Xmases on my own and the pressure is worse. I only have my 22yr old daughter here and all the jollity of the season makes me feel worse-am I making any sense here?
I love Christmas the wonderment, the joy, the family bonding, etc. I spend hours wondering which of my girlfriends will ring in tears ( the all time winner is the one who stabbed her husband with a fish fork then proceeded to tell all of her family in English -and ****** up Polish for the visiting relatives- how they had offended her for the last twenty years!!! As her Husband said I probably should have kept my mouth shut - he has the driest sense of humour I know.) The joy of it all being over, til the shops wheel the cr@p out a month earlier the following year. The bonding - avoiding the urge of UHUing/gluing up the gob of the wee cousin who thought that my kids deserved to know the truth that Mr Sense and I were perpetuators of fairy tales regarding a certain jolly gent.
Actually for a bit of variety I did my shopping in New York last year - and took in the sights too - they say a change is as good as a rest! lol. By the way when the kids go back to school in September my Housekeeper thinks it is just hysterical to pitch up and count down the days to Christmas ... I should really get a p45 to wave at her.
Actually for a bit of variety I did my shopping in New York last year - and took in the sights too - they say a change is as good as a rest! lol. By the way when the kids go back to school in September my Housekeeper thinks it is just hysterical to pitch up and count down the days to Christmas ... I should really get a p45 to wave at her.
pastafreak I understand absolutely. I just got paid etc., and already have a stress on about the impending season of jollity, which invariably ends on Dec 25th with everyone over 5 feeling a bit deflated, and a lot skint!
I thought about making stuff this year, but then I realised I have about 10 successive 7-day-weeks coming up. Who the heck has time to be creative any more?!
I think sometimes we need to step back and evaluate what's so important-isn't it better just to have people you love round you? Unless you do have kids, in which case it's best to max out your credit cards and hope there won't be tears before dinner!
I thought about making stuff this year, but then I realised I have about 10 successive 7-day-weeks coming up. Who the heck has time to be creative any more?!
I think sometimes we need to step back and evaluate what's so important-isn't it better just to have people you love round you? Unless you do have kids, in which case it's best to max out your credit cards and hope there won't be tears before dinner!
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