My love/hate relationship with Christmas

[DD]

Love....

Christmas music
Snow
Santa
Church on Christmas Eve (although I didn't get to go this year)
Trees
Decorations
Good Food
Family
Shopping (ok...sometimes I just like it)
Wrapping (when I'm not rushed)
The anticipation
Christmas movies (over and over again)
SoWal ornament exchange
Being off work

Hate....
Going back to work
That anti-climactic feeling
Nothing to really look forward to until..uh...spring (The one exception to this is along about Jan. 5)
Cold
Throwing away leftovers
Knowing that tax time is just around the corner and my life will again become a living hell.
Taking down the decorations. This year, I'm leaving them up til at least Jan 6.
No more excuses for eating bad stuff.
Cold
Brown
Cold
Going back to work
Cold
Cold
Cold
Cold

 

[sunspotbaby]

God love ya DD.

 

[DD]

God love ya DD.

 

[Lynnie]

I hear ya' too, DD. My house is staying decorated until Jan 6 this year as well. And, am enjoying every min. Something strange occurred this year: Sweet Pea and p***y did NOT bat around ornaments? Usually, I would come home to find a few ornaments in strange places and Sweet Pea's tail between her legs. But, then I realized it was p***y being the instigator and Sweet Pea just going along with him, thus taking all of the heat.

It's cold here, but cozy and I hope your cold goes away tonight in your sleep.

 

[jessifunn]

shooter is brown

 

[njackie]

oh yeh! not a good time, plus we have to leave Seagrove, and I keep forgetting the adage about being thankful that it happened, not sad that it is over, its all b--- s----!

 

[Beauty hunter]

DD- Glad to see you

Everything you said love/hate- there with ya! I love the way you summed it up. That's why I try to come up with something everyday that's exciting- I hate to be bored. One form of relaxation for me is sitting down at the computer and visiting sowal with a nice warm cup of coffee. I can talk or be quiet, speak with one person or thousands, laugh or cry, be serious or silly, learn or play, and see the diversity and similarities of many viewpoints. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, you said what alot of people are thinking. I hope everyday for you is like opening up a beautiful present

 

[Gidget]

I felt a lot less of that "post Christmas let down" this year. Perhaps because I didn't go all out like years in the past. Just a tiny Norfolk Pine with one string of lights and one string of colored lights on the balcony at the apt. Listened to some select carols and watched one Cmas movie on Cmas Eve that I'd never seen- The Christmas Story - and then took a whirlwind trip to Baton Rouge to see the clan and was back feeling rather high after it was all over.

I have to have SOME kind of lights up year round on my porch/patio. I think my color of choice for Emerald Coast will be green.

I'm with you on C O L D - ready for shorts and flip flops oh yeah!

Ugh - tax time One of my favorite tax quotes:

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[Beauty hunter]

Good one Gidget-THEIRS
The truth IS funny

 

[Kurt]

At least you don't have to go back to school.