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Dec. 1st, 2019 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreWell, it is December 1st and I am already done with Christmas. Here are some reasons:
1) Yesterday, I was in a shop in downtown Poulsbo that was playing Christmas music and, in between O Holy Night and that godawful John Lennon Christmas song, they played the worst cover I've ever heard of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Dear Christians - you cannot do that.
2) My Aunt Jan is here to visit (as my grandmother can no longer travel to visit her). She came for Thanksgiving and is staying until after Christmas. She is a lovely person but she habitually does things that I find very unpleasant (calls everyone "sweetheart", touches my hand or my shoulder while passing me, tries to chat at breakfast) and I'm already very very tired of it.
3) My dad consistently falls in love with Christmas music that I absolutely cannot stand, gets one line of a song stuck in his head, and sings it over and over again forever.
4) There is so little time between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year that I don't feel I've had enough time to transition and properly brace myself for the onslaught of Christian celebration.
5) Also, I am very busy in the next few weeks and there are fewer of them, which means that I'm not going to get to do several of the things that are actually meaningful for me at this time of year. My choir concerts are the same weekend as the Revels, so I'm going to miss it for the first time in over a decade. I haven't had time and won't have time going forward to make my Yule cake. (I make a fruitcake in November, usually, full of golden and tropical fruits (because the sun, natch) and cut into it on the solstice and eat it throughout Yule and then put the rest in the freezer to eat on holidays throughout the year. It takes two days to make and bake and then I spend weeks soaking it in layers of sugar syrup.) I'm going to be out of town during the St Lucia bonfire lighting in Poulsbo. It sucks.
I'm just already so tired.
1) Yesterday, I was in a shop in downtown Poulsbo that was playing Christmas music and, in between O Holy Night and that godawful John Lennon Christmas song, they played the worst cover I've ever heard of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Dear Christians - you cannot do that.
2) My Aunt Jan is here to visit (as my grandmother can no longer travel to visit her). She came for Thanksgiving and is staying until after Christmas. She is a lovely person but she habitually does things that I find very unpleasant (calls everyone "sweetheart", touches my hand or my shoulder while passing me, tries to chat at breakfast) and I'm already very very tired of it.
3) My dad consistently falls in love with Christmas music that I absolutely cannot stand, gets one line of a song stuck in his head, and sings it over and over again forever.
4) There is so little time between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year that I don't feel I've had enough time to transition and properly brace myself for the onslaught of Christian celebration.
5) Also, I am very busy in the next few weeks and there are fewer of them, which means that I'm not going to get to do several of the things that are actually meaningful for me at this time of year. My choir concerts are the same weekend as the Revels, so I'm going to miss it for the first time in over a decade. I haven't had time and won't have time going forward to make my Yule cake. (I make a fruitcake in November, usually, full of golden and tropical fruits (because the sun, natch) and cut into it on the solstice and eat it throughout Yule and then put the rest in the freezer to eat on holidays throughout the year. It takes two days to make and bake and then I spend weeks soaking it in layers of sugar syrup.) I'm going to be out of town during the St Lucia bonfire lighting in Poulsbo. It sucks.
I'm just already so tired.
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Date: 2019-12-02 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-06 06:34 pm (UTC)I'm also feeling really rushed and stressed about Christmas this year, and it's my favorite time of year! But also, our holiday party for work is on my Sunday off this year, which means Dragon and I won't have a chance to go to Philly or Lancaster to play Christmas things... I don't actually have all my gift-buying done, which is unusual for me, and I'm generally just very anxious about money, because I've actually been working LESS hours than usual, and probably won't get more hours again until the week before Christmas, maybe not even then... It's...not ideal.