How Does That Make You Feel?
It's time to play "How Does That Make You Feel?"
Christmas is less than 2 months away.
"Christmas is coming, it's practically here!"
How Does that Make You Feel?
posted by Ur-spo at 10:23 PM
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
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27 Comments:
I'll be honest...it aggravates me when talk of christmas starts up this early and the stores are already pushing it. Especially since we haven't even got thru Halloween.
It gives me an anxious feeling. I was shopping for Halloween candy this past weekend and right next to the scarey stuff were the Christmas decorations. Is it just me or did the stores used to wait until Thanksgiving to put Christmas stuff out??? AAAHHH! See, I getting worked up already. Thanks Spo.
Oh shit... less than two months to plan our annual Christmas party... who will I invite, will my remodeling be done by then... will it snow and no one show up... what will I serve... what should be the theme... official panic mode... hehehe... actually we have candy dishes in my office and we keep them full of little chocolate bars... well one of my bosses brought in a bag of candy in christmas wrap colors and i refuse to put out that candy until after Halloween!!
I am a nervous wreck. I dreamed about Christmas shopping last night among other very strange things.
I am of two minds: I love Christmas and have something Christmassy around all the time. However, I think pushing Christmas into October in the stores is just too much.
I was in a Target store on Christmas Eve, and the employees were going around the store taking down the Christmas decorations and putting up Valentine's Decorations. That was way too much!
(An unabashedly Christian statement will follow, if blatant Christianity is offensive, please stop reading now.) We celebrate so much before Christmas that we forget that Christmas is about the time AFTER the birth of Christ. It is not the baby that saves but the man.
So, I love Christmas and celebrate in all kinds of ways all the time, but I think businesses foisting it upon us as a means of profit is just wrong.
Here! Here! for BQ!
I was going to answer by asking are we talking Santa Claus? or the Feast of the Nativity?
The first makes me want to run screaming from the building and hide until the end of January.
The second I look forward to. I get to get out all my Winter Solstice CD's and play them non-stop into mid-January! HOO-ha!
Like crawling under a rock and staying there until the 18th of January...
I love Christmas. One of my favorite masses in church is the midnight mass on Christmas Eve.
Funny. I woke this morning and my first thought was 'Fuck Christmas.' Only because I'd slept on the sofa last night. I've got bigger worries here than where to place the tree this December. Yep.
I feel rushed, as if the whole year flew by without a break. So I've already begun my holiday shopping just to make an early dent.
I too avoid Christmas until after Thanksgiving. Then I'll start putting together baskets of homemade jams and preserves for friends and family. No help with the Macy's sales quotas here!
My first thought was "make it go away."
Arrrgghhhh.
I get to see my family, but where they live there is no internet access so I have to leave my blogger friends! So mixed feelings! I am going to have to use the old way...telephone!
For most it's 4 pay periods until xmas. I avoid the holidays and do my own thing. Hate them! LOL
christmas? what is that? oh yes, that bothersome time when we all celebrate the baby jesus who came from santa's sack of goodies... is that how it goes?
i do not celebrate christmas, but i do celebrate Yule.
and i am looking forward to the season of sharing and caring between friends in the darkest corner of the year
i might have a special gift coming, after all...
Christmas is such a time of stress for people, spending money they can't afford. Parents who can't give their children what they want. Commercials telling kids what santa can bring them.
It's always been bah humbug!
This year, after upteen years, I have decided to be "happy". Just enjoy the festivities and try not to let the outside influences discourage me.
I'm really excited, for the first time in years, and looking forward to it.
I would love "peace" for christmas time, but I will settle for no one committing suicide.
I feel the same way about Christmas as you feel about Halloween! I already have 2/3 of my shopping done, and I'm thinking about wrapping and sending packages. I have my Christmas cards on my desk, and it's time to start thinking about writing my yearly letter...I know, FREAK! :)
Spider's suggestion above is a dang good one. I am much in the Halloween spirit, but thinking of Snacksgiving and Squidmas fills me with unalloyed weariness. Can't everyone go someplace besides my house this year?
I'm still trying to decide about Halloween.
I'm actually looking forward to it this year. I'm in a new apartment with room for a tree and my roommate is actually wanting to decorate and make the place festive. As for spending money except for my mom I'm pretty much done with Christmas giving. And all of this will wait until after Thanksgiving, which I am looking forward to immensly. Sweet potatoes with marshmallows. YUM!
like I better start shopping.
People were wearing Halloween costumes in public here on October 1st because it was the start of "Halloween month." Nothing means anything any more if it's celebrated almost continually. I know capitalism is the engine that drives our economy and our lifestyle, but there needs to be SOME restraint sometimes. Christmas has become a three or four month merchant feeding frenzy.
That said, I'm behind on my Christmas shopping!
I always look forward to Christmas.
Being in retail so long, some of the magic is gone for me (we're putting the tree up today at the store, probably --- way too early in my opinion, but I'm actually the LAST store in town not to have Christmas stuff out!)
I had to laugh at DrQuest's comment about Target: yes, they certainly push the seasons. when I worked there, you HAD to have Valentine's day stuff step up by December 27th or there was hell to pay. NO ONE was interested in Valentine's crap after Christmas -- they all wanted the Christmas stuff at 50% off. By the way, at Target, they call Christmas Eve = Desperate Straight Man Day! :)
Ho Ho Ho
by the way: the upped meds seem to be working, so hopefully I'll not be your suicide this holiday season. :)
well Christmas sure hits the emotions, both good and bad! I hope it is a peaceful nice time for all, despite all the handicaps.
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