it's the season and despite the fact that i usually go christmas crazy, it's been hard for me to get into it. i've tried watching a movie or two, baking cookies, decorating trees, setting up mechanical snowmen, gift shopping, and the rest of it. have i literally grown out of the excitement of the holidays? is it just stress from various things? i don't know what it is but i know i don't like it. hopefully, considering tomorrow will mark the official last day of the semester i will perk up and make the most out of the time left before christmas. i am quite proud of the gifts i'll be giving my family and friends this year. i always try to be personal about it, to get something they don't have, something that will speak to them on a level above just being an object- more like something showing the thought i put into picking it out. i love doing that for the important people in my life. it's strange because usually people think i hate christmas and the act of giving because i'm always so sarcastic and make fun of almost everything. it's the opposite though. i melt when i know i got someone the perfect gift. even when i was little i would wrap up music boxes and stuffed animals and give them to my parents, thinking that just because you wrap something it's magically new and shiny. then again, i thought santa was real when i was that age. i'd give anything to be that way one more time.
this time i will go through what things about the holidays specifically make me happy.
gingerbread houses, walking through the snow at night and seeing how the christmas lights reflect off the ground, baking my christmas cookies, giving my christmas cookies away, giving in general, decorating the tree, using the tree as a night light, nat king cole and frank sinatra christmas albums, snowmen, seeing wrapped presents under the tree, the element of surprise.
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