I did it. I did get the Christmas decorations put away. It took only about two hours but the temptation to avoid the inevitable.... oh....probably a couple of days. Baby steps. I'm moving in baby steps.
Life gets back to normal now, whatever that may be.
The holidays are behind us. It's only been 10 days since Christmas and I felt like it was wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am-see-you-all-again-next-year. I keep wanting to look behind me and say "wait a minute, what happened, where'd you go?" I mean I'm still listening to Christmas music in the car. Ok, today I didn't.
I was disappointed on the 28th. I stopped to get a much needed fill up on gas. There was a lady ahead of me in line to pay. When she was leaving she said "Merry Christmas" to the attendant. The attendant waited, of course, until the lady was out of earshot when she grumbled "Christmas is over with". I was quite taken aback by the criticism. Come on. Really. What's the big deal? I guess I'm naive but I truly don't believe there's anything wrong with the holiday wishes. I could see if New Years was long over but at that point it hadn't happened yet. As far as I'm concerned Christmas involves the whole month of December. The media and retailers have no problem starting their advertising overload at 12:01 a.m. on November 1st. So I can understand if some get testy (that's where the deep breath comes in) but there's no reason for out right bitchiness.
I figure everybody needs an excuse to extend a little goodwill. Yes, you read right.....an excuse. Nobody deserves getting snipped at for extending well wishes. There's nothing wrong with being nice. So some people need to take the proverbial chill pill and stop pissing in everybody else's corn flakes. The day will be a lot more warmer and brighter than the -20 with the wind chill we experience at this time of year.
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