Today is one of my most favorite days of the year.
After weeks of watching and hearing about people lose their minds because of Christmas, 12/26 means it's thankfully over. All that frenetic and crazed Christmas energy- which I am highly sensitive to and respond very negatively to - is now a thing of the past, at least for the next 10 months or so.
After weeks of watching and hearing about people lose their minds because of Christmas, 12/26 means it's thankfully over. All that frenetic and crazed Christmas energy- which I am highly sensitive to and respond very negatively to - is now a thing of the past, at least for the next 10 months or so.
I wake up on the morning of 12/26 like little kids do on the morning of 12/25: joy-filled, exhilarated, ready to seize the day š
The only things left now to deal with are castoff Christmas trees - which break my heart - and New Year's Eve.
I am not of the real Christmas tree camp because, as an ardent tree lover, all I see are the happy trees that get murdered, then propped up in people's living rooms to slowly die while decorated in lights and baubles and then thrown to the curb where they will complete their death throes no longer wanted and waiting to be transported to the landfill.
I will never be convinced that any tree is happier getting chopped down instead of living out its days with its roots in the ground surrounded by its tree friends and family.
Think I'm crazy? I'm not. Read this and watch this.
I will never be convinced that any tree is happier getting chopped down instead of living out its days with its roots in the ground surrounded by its tree friends and family.
Think I'm crazy? I'm not. Read this and watch this.
As for New Year's Eve revelry - no, thank you. I like mine quiet with no pomp or circumstance.
Although after this nightmare year I may stay awake to watch 2020 end.
Although after this nightmare year I may stay awake to watch 2020 end.
JP and I decided to follow guidelines and not have people over or go visiting this year for Christmas.
Our thoughts are that it's better to err on the side of caution + sacrificing one year is nothing in the grand scheme of things. We still got to see the people we care about only we did it via drive-by present dropoffs and video phone calls. My 80 year old mother threw open her second floor window and we stood under it waving and throwing kisses. Not the ideal way we would have liked to spend the day but we implemented the 2020 mantra: it is what it is.
However, we were sadly made aware from other people we know whose families were not being cautious - the "you have to live your life" types - that they were being manipulated/guilted/bullied by them for deciding, like us, to not throw caution to the wind.
However, we were sadly made aware from other people we know whose families were not being cautious - the "you have to live your life" types - that they were being manipulated/guilted/bullied by them for deciding, like us, to not throw caution to the wind.
Please please tell me you are not Covid guilting anyone. No one gets to tell another person how or what they should be doing in the middle of an unprecedented plague (unless their behavior is endangering others). Don't be a Covid jerk.
I'm going to spend this week before the new year tidying up my website and developing ideas and making plans for my life and business as 2021 gets ushered in. This week is always a weird one, right? Like, you can't figure out what day it is or why you can't stop eating :-)
Best to just decide to relax this week and have as much fun as you can.
Best to just decide to relax this week and have as much fun as you can.
And, really, don't worry too much about all the eating.
You don't always have rich leftovers and bins filled with homemade cookies laying around.
You don't always have rich leftovers and bins filled with homemade cookies laying around.
Relax. Enjoy. Have fun.
It's been a rough year. ♥
It's been a rough year. ♥
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