Xmas Blues
Dec. 23rd, 2005 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloOK. I've had enough. The Solstice was two days ago. Let's not do this any more.
I hate it how corporate it is- how we're all expected to be doing the same things at the same times, feeling the same emotions.
But there's no getting off the ride. We know exactly what to expect; those chugging climbs, those swooping falls. The little train has started off. The safety bar is locked in place.
I hate it how corporate it is- how we're all expected to be doing the same things at the same times, feeling the same emotions.
But there's no getting off the ride. We know exactly what to expect; those chugging climbs, those swooping falls. The little train has started off. The safety bar is locked in place.
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Date: 2005-12-23 04:37 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-12-23 05:55 am (UTC)It still happens. Oh, not as badly or dramatically as all that. but, whether there is more daylight is relative when the Holiday Lights are taken away - a few at a time, but none the less taken away. All the good fellowship and tolerance everyone seems to feel disappears, to be replaced with what seems like twice as much gloom. The weather intensifies - we already have 56 inches of snow this year, which puts us well on track for 200+ before the winter is through.
I'm depressing myself!
I think Eeyore was 'born' right after Christmas, in the dark season.
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Date: 2005-12-23 06:05 am (UTC)My sibs are coming on the 26th, so I've pretty much managed to entirely avoid anything to do with Christmas. No decorations, no presents (we don't exchange presents). I've been so busy getting ready for them, that has totally preoccupied me. And it's kind of nice. I'd much rather celebrate The Arrival of the Sibs than Christmas. It's far more meaningful to me.
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Date: 2005-12-23 06:45 am (UTC)(Well, actually, it's going to be pretty moderate)
But the fire is so delightful
(Radiator, electric heater, gas stove, MD 20/20, whatever)
And since we've no place to go
(Homeless, broke, just murdered a family member from stress)
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
(I already said the weather is moderate so let's don't and say it did)
It doesn't show signs of stopping
(The crass commercialism, the traffic, the pushing and shoving, the chia pets)
And I've brought some corn for popping
(Corn, corny, like this song)
The lights are turned way down low
(So drunk smelly Aunt Mildred thinks we've gone away for the holiday)
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
(GOTO line 8)
When we finally kiss goodnight
(Which is more sex than in Brokeback Mountain)
How I'll hate going out in the storm
(The storm of overdue bills, repo men, and re-gifting)
But if you'll really hold me tight
(But not there or you'll be on Judge Judy so fast your head will spin)
All the way home I'll be warm
(Because I'll have your wallet, cash, credit cards, and maybe your social security number. So it's free plane tickets to Nassau)
The fire is slowly dying
(My holiday spirit died in February... of 1982)
And my dear, we're still goodbye-ing
(You just don't know when to shut up, do you.)
But as long as you love me so
(Me love you long time, sailor. We take American Express. You want shiatsu?)
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it effin' snoooooooow!!
(Bastards)
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Date: 2005-12-23 07:08 am (UTC)On the other hand, I've only really started doing serious Christmas stuff this week. Roy just got the lights on the tree last night.
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Date: 2005-12-23 07:54 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-12-23 07:58 am (UTC)And Christmas is almost impossible to opt out of. It carries on around you- with its winking lights and its silly music- no matter how hard you set your face against it.
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Date: 2005-12-23 08:01 am (UTC)I enjoy the onset of winter, but I'm awful sick of it by the end of February.
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Date: 2005-12-23 08:08 am (UTC)And so expressive of the true spirit of Christmas....
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Date: 2005-12-23 08:10 am (UTC)I think my distaste for it goes back to the break-up of my first marriage and the "loss" of my kids. What's Christmas day if one's kids are off enjoying it someplace else?
Hmmm- I'm not sure I've ever acknowledged this before.....
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Date: 2005-12-23 08:21 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-12-23 08:33 am (UTC)But what a good idea!
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Date: 2005-12-23 10:05 am (UTC)