Who's glad Christmas is over?

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I was looking forward to the carols and food, and seeing delighted looks on people's faces when they opened my carefully selected gifts; but my gifts got lost in the consumerist jumble of unwrapping a thousand things.

My brother was mad at me because I brought a homemade pie to my mom's (he felt upstaged because he had brought nothing- but really I had baked it for the caroling party I tried to have, to which nobody had come); then my husband's family gave me dirty looks because I brought nothing to their feast (it honestly slipped my mind); other people gave each other gifts like hideous hand-knit sweaters that I would never ever wear but I felt jealous of anyway. The whole ordeal just reminded me how isolated I really am, even from our families.

So I keep running the disappointment through my mind today and just feel worse and worse about it.

I am glad it's over, but wish I could do it over again and bring the pie to B's mom's instead of mine, among other things.

I'm glad that Christmas is NOT over. For me, like Crystalmirror, the Christmas celebration has just begun. My celebration of the Christmas season continues un the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord which is Sunday, January 13th.

I almost passed out, because I forgot to eat. The change in routine was so exciting that I forgot to eat.

Only 363 days until the next one. Bah. Humbug.

i am glad that it is over...I am so exhausted......blaaah.......

I'm also in retail, so I hardly got to do any of the Christmas stuff I wanted. I tried to watch all the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials in order (From Little Drummer Boy and Nestor through Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July) but only got halfway through (up to Santa Claus is Coming to Town).

Despite getting a jump-start on wrapping right after Thanksgiving, I managed to continue my tradition of staying up until 6:00 am Christmas Eve (er, Christmas morning) in order to finish. This is always a nice present for my cat though, as it means she can stay in for as long as possible before going out on her cold (indoor) porch. I call her the Christmas Demon (she has misdirected-play-aggression), and by the time I go to bed I'm so delirious from lack of sleep that I really believe she'll succeed in killing Santa and all his reindeer when they visit. Someday.

If I keep my New Years resolution to get a better job this year, maybe next December I'll actually get it all done and not want Christmas to hang around longer.

The holidays are the most fun part of the year.

Tim

Thanks for the sympathy, hartzofspace. Much appreciated.

When I think of it though my problems are very small - especially when I know that one teenager in the village I live in died of cancer over Christmas and a friend of ours is dying of cancer now. Not much of a Christmas for their families was it? That said, I'm glad to hear that your Christmas was at least bearable. Backs are bastard things, aren't they? Thankfully, the radio has ceased playing Slade's Merry Xmas Everybody ad infinitum. Thank heavens for small mercies at least!

Roll on next year!

I'm glad to have my routine mostly back to normal , I had a major meltdown on christmas day because the Chinese restaurant and also the 24 hour diner we would go to on the 25th to eat were both closed in respect for the holiday. we had nothing to eat at home other than spaghetti and stuff for the kids I am allergic to and we always did that same thing and they messed it up then we had to go to a convenience store to get hot dogs or something to eat and this lady said cheerfully merry christmas , I almost slammed the door on her. Also I'm not a christian so it's kind of irritating and a lot of my family is christian so they celebrate.

For me, getting "blootered" is the only way I get through the season. Oh, yeah, and playing with my grand-niece and grand-nephew saves me from the "older" crew. But oh, boy, yeah, I am so glad to get this whatever it is over with.

And the warm and sunny--I'm hearing you. I'm heading to Hawaii for most of this summer, and also to attend a conference, and there is nothing nicer than being able to wander and explore, and have beautiful views...

Stay warm, Tequila, and get well quick.

R.

I think that I'll celebrate your version of Christmas and take my tree down on January 14th.

Christmas ends on January 6th. December 25th is the 1st day of the 12 days of Christmas.

Tim

Christmas... over?... when did that happen?... must have slept through it

Actually it was a pretty quiet event.
I got up sometime around 10am, woke up my daughter around 11am.
We just had time to pour out the contents of our stockings, pass out the few gifts beneath the tree, open them and then dress to go to town.

I took her over to the house she shares with her mom, so they could spend a few hours togther on Christmas.
I went to work even though I was not working.
I hung around, talked to the staff in the lab/E.R./Med-Surg/ICU/OB-GYN.
After a couple of hours of this... and eating the goodies lying about ... I started working.
After a little of that, my co-worker's finally made me stop because I was off the clock.
Something was said about getting me a girlfriend so I would quit hanging around work, I played a few games on one of the computers, then my daughter called to be picked up.

We went to a local restaurant to get dinner-to-go because I had forgotten about having something at home to make dinner with on Christmas (I'm used to just shopping each day for the meals that evening).

We went home, ate, and watched our MONK SEASON 5 DVD's that 'Santa' brought us.

I did not call my family, so I didn't have to hear about the latest problems everyone was having or still having.

Overall, it was a pretty good Christmas, despite the grocery stores being closed.

What was a TOTAL BUMMER was the fact that my daughter and I forgot about BOXING DAY!
Now she's gone South to visit family with her mom so we can't even have a belted BOXING DAY!

Guess I'll just have to have one by myself

Although this xmas was certainly not my worse...it wasn't my best, either.
I am glad that xmas is over either way, as I just don't like the holiday season in general.

I'll be celebrating a mini Christmas, on the 25th, each month, throughout the year. That will be the day that I'll be stuck to my laptop, doing my Christmas art, no matter where I am. I'll also listen to a Christmas CD, on that monthly date. The 14th of each month will be Valentine's Day, and I'll be spending the night with my dog, no matter what the date is. That will be the date that I do my Valentine's Day art on my laptop, and listen to The Beatles, all day. I'll celebrate my Birthday on the 30th, every month. I could spend that date with my friends, or my parents. I'll be doing some Birthday art, that day. The same goes for the other special dates on the calendar.

I'm glad it's over.

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I went home to my parents where my elderly grandmother was also visiting. Long story short we ended up in casualty with her on Christmas Day night - paramedics picked her up at 10pm and she was finally admitted to a ward at 2.30am Boxing Day morning after x-rays etc. Spent most of Boxing Day visiting her in hospital.

Hospital released Grandma on the morning of the 27th and took her home (to her own house) by ambulance, even though she cannot get upstairs due to her injury, lives alone (40 miles away from my mum), and consequently has to use a commode, wash herself at the kitchen sink and sleep in an armchair. Grandma is 96 and can barely walk or bear weight on her bad leg but I suspect the hospital needed her bedspace

Mum rushed off to meet Grandma when the ambulance dropped her off, and I left to return home via my sister's house - her two young children both have a combination of chickenpox, tonsilitis and cellulitis so it was not a particuarly happy visit.

28th I took my old dog for a check up and his annual jabs - vet discovered a lump but it's location means that whether or not it's cancerous it can't be removed without him becoming incontinent. So I don't expect him to still be here next Christmas.

Oh, and also on the 28th I received a hospital appointment for examination of potential pre-cancerous cell changes.

Marvellous. Not.

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