Christmas Spirit

Even with all the frustration going on these days I am getting kind of excited and happy about Christmas this year. It's been awhile since I really felt like getting out the Christmas tree and finding what I can of my surviving decorations. Some old and some new this year too.

Maybe I will get the car and license stuff worked out somehow. By Christmas it will be resolved one way or the other. Hope Sherry and I can get together for the baking which I have been looking forward to since last year when we made cookies.

My favourite Christmas thing is the tree and then the carols. The Christmas music was spoiled for me awhile with working in the store and hearing it as soon after Remembrance day as they could get it. It blends in with the background and isn't anything special when you hear it everyday for weeks and weeks. I wish stores could hang on and wait till at least December 1st. I guess they are just paranoid about sales and can't wait to get started. After Christmas is a great time for shopping, that's when I enjoy actually buying anything. But I love going out to the malls now. I love the decorations and the music too when I only listen to it all as long as I want to versus being there for an eight hour shift each day.

How are you feeling about Christmas this year? Someone at work says he hates it. I think it's really sad that he lets commercialism spoil it all for him. But, that is his choice. If you focus on one aspect and exclude all else... you will never see all the other great things about it which are still here. There is Christmas Spirit and I do believe in Santa Claus. Santa is as real as each of us, as real as the holiday spirit and the decorations at the mall and the lights on houses, businesses and along the main street in town. Santa isn't a person, it's a sense of happiness, optimism and goodwill which we choose to have (or not).

Choose well and for heavens sake.... put up your tree, soon!