Monday, December 20, 2010

The Week Before Christmas and Everything is Happening So Fast

It's Christmas Week. I'm not sure if anyone else has called it that,
but for me, the week which has Christmas stuck there somewhere is
Christmas week. It includes the two weekends (think of the weekends as
bookends on a bookshelf). That one week is just part 1 of Christmas
celebration. The main part, as the early part of December is the
run-up or prequel, prologue or foreplay. And then there's part two,
which extends from Christmas week, to the following weekend and is
mainly New Year's celebration.

This is the crazy season.

The craziness starts in the gift-giving. And then moves to the binge
eating. And then to the crazy schedules where you have to meet
everyone and see everyone and drop off gifts, and so on. After the
first week of December, everything moves to high gear, and zooms past.
No time to have that headache, no time for a sick leave, and even if
there was a typhoon (a TYPHOON in December -- which I've experienced
before), there is no excuse for the craziness celebrating Christmas.

I am not a Scrooge, but it does get really crazy to the extremes. I
have experienced back-breaking gift giving in my time. I was giving
away wine before it was fashionable. I gave pinot noir and zinfandel
before people even realized what reds and rose were. I was giving
Gundam Zoids toy models before these became hot items. But some days
you just have to ask yourself what you were thinking or what you were
doing.

The past few years, I have receded into a shell. I have not celebrated
Christmas as much as I should. This year though, I have started to go
out and hang loose with old friends. Hopefully, I can keep this up and
get out of my shell, and stop being a recluse. Moving forward is not
just a day to day thing, it should be a focus for me.

Though there is the urge to blink, or just nod off and wake up
sometime in January, I'm keeping my eyes peeled and will enjoy
Christmas this year.

To one and all, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Enjoy and Keep Safe.
Bask in the love, express it and share. Peace!

/andoy
20 December 2010


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