I always have trouble combining Merry Christmas with Happy New Year, so usually my holiday greetings come out being "Happy Merry New Year Christmas". I have said it about 5 times to people who then give me the confused face. I guess i should just opt for "Enjoy the Holidays!"
Of course it was another sleepless night. Tossing, turning, and exasperation at this whole not being able to sleep on Christmas Eve. Part of me thinks i should have grown out of it a long time ago, like once you hit some pivotal age Christmas becomes to some extent a regular sleeping event.
But, since i am not the Grinch, that isn't the case and here i am 6 in the morning writing.
This Christmas season is a little different because it's the first time i have bought gifts. I mean when i was in high school i probably got my mom to by three gifts for friends and that was the end of it.
But perhaps because this year has been trying on my mother, i decided to buy presents for the family. I had been saving since i got my job in the library and was able to buy more than enough presents.
Oddly enough i guess my anticipation and restlessness was not because of what awaits me under the Christmas tree, but what awakes them.
My mom kept asking me what i had bought for myself, and i suddenly realized i hadn't bought anything(minus one Cd).
I guess amidst the hectic mess of buying Christmas presents, of getting cut in line by impatient shoppers, turning into one a few times, missing and catching sales, being lost as to what to get my family, i realized that the reason i hadn't cared about what i was getting was because i want something more than what Santa can squeeze under the brightly lit tree.
My gifts at this point are not tangible, they aren't a new pair of shoes, a killer cd or dvd, and i don't think i can take another sweater.
What i want I have to go searching on for myself, pushing past the impatient, indecisive, guilt ridden shopper within me to find what i am looking for.
But until then...i don't mind browsing the aisle.
Merry Christmas Blog World and friends.
I hope it is everything you wished it to be.
-Beckett-
Of course it was another sleepless night. Tossing, turning, and exasperation at this whole not being able to sleep on Christmas Eve. Part of me thinks i should have grown out of it a long time ago, like once you hit some pivotal age Christmas becomes to some extent a regular sleeping event.
But, since i am not the Grinch, that isn't the case and here i am 6 in the morning writing.
This Christmas season is a little different because it's the first time i have bought gifts. I mean when i was in high school i probably got my mom to by three gifts for friends and that was the end of it.
But perhaps because this year has been trying on my mother, i decided to buy presents for the family. I had been saving since i got my job in the library and was able to buy more than enough presents.
Oddly enough i guess my anticipation and restlessness was not because of what awaits me under the Christmas tree, but what awakes them.
My mom kept asking me what i had bought for myself, and i suddenly realized i hadn't bought anything(minus one Cd).
I guess amidst the hectic mess of buying Christmas presents, of getting cut in line by impatient shoppers, turning into one a few times, missing and catching sales, being lost as to what to get my family, i realized that the reason i hadn't cared about what i was getting was because i want something more than what Santa can squeeze under the brightly lit tree.
My gifts at this point are not tangible, they aren't a new pair of shoes, a killer cd or dvd, and i don't think i can take another sweater.
What i want I have to go searching on for myself, pushing past the impatient, indecisive, guilt ridden shopper within me to find what i am looking for.
But until then...i don't mind browsing the aisle.
Merry Christmas Blog World and friends.
I hope it is everything you wished it to be.
-Beckett-
4 comments:
And a very happy merry Christmas to you too Beckett!
It's a tradition of mine to wait until the after-Christmas sales to spend my holiday loot. I'll be joining you in spirit, browsing them aisles for new and shiny goods...I would like a colorful coat, sick and tired of all my black ones.
Merry Christmas Beckett! Happiest of New Years to you.
Happy Holidays to you!!!
Take solace in the fact that you are on an even keel with my family due to the fact that I didn't get them anything either, despite the fact that I have received more than my fair share of thoughtful presents.
I am taking full advantage of the phrase "it's the thought that counts" this year...
HAPPYMERRYCHRISTMASBELATEDLY!
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