We are exactly one month
away from Christmas day. I really have this weird preoccupation with
the 25th of the month regardless of the month. I tend to
focus everything on how far that 25th day of the month is
from Christmas. I don't know why actually a do know why. I think
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year – – I know it
sounds like a song but that's why it is a song, cliché or whatever.
I live in perpetual hope that Christmas is going to be wonderful.
I'm anxious to start
everything Christmas. One of the first things I do is try to get my
Christmas cards out. I put them away after every year and then take
you forever to find them the next. I have an idea of where my
Christmas cards are at I just have to dig them out probably tomorrow.
I begin with my relatives pretty much my immediate family. With 10
brothers and sisters (adoptive) that's quite a bit of cards to fill
out. Postage never used the matter but now at almost $.60 a card wow.
Have addresses for all my brothers and sisters except one. I sent him
a card anyway via his older brother who usually knows how to get a
hold of him when the need arises. Now there's the whole new “other”
family I need to think about – – notice I did not say “worry”.
I would just like to get one or two addresses to begin with send
cards to. That there's a host of friends I would love to send cards
to but I have no addresses. I kind of hate contacting somebody via
the net and ask about what their physical addresses, and I must be
very sure to let them know what it's for so they don't think I'm
totally strange. But is it strange to send cards anymore? In this
stage of multimedia, is that the right term? Maybe I should use term
social media perhaps is just as best to send a card by the Internet.
Perhaps a virtual card is okay for acquaintances and folks that you
deal with once or twice a year but even then I don't really like
sending personal greetings over the Internet. I should get over that
obviously that's the way things are going. I like having a naturalist
for a person so I can make out a card and send it. The person gets
the card opens it and hopefully is delighted to see that someone
thought enough send them a card. That dumb? If it is than I am.
I love the specialized
programming of the Christmas season – – not so much the Christmas
specials those are kind of trite – – but the great films and the
not so great films. Holiday Inn, that one with Jimmy Stewart,
Scrooged, A Christmas Carol (Dickens) Home Alone (the original) and a
bunch more that I cannot even remember. Even if I don't sit down and
watch these videos I hear them in the background and I've seen them
so much but I know exactly what's going on by what I'm hearing. It
just makes you think of Christmas.
Even though I rarely drink
anymore I would like a good gin and tonic, black/white Russian and
maybe a blush with a good meal of roast beef and are ham.
Cookies, I would like to
take an evening to bake a couple of dozen cookies. I don't care what
kind possibly very old-fashioned peanut butter crisscross cookies or
oatmeal cookies with lots of raisins and nuts. Possibly sugar cookies
cookie cuttered in the shapes of bells, Christmas trees, sleds and
drums with that shiny red, green, white icing. This may not be the
right place but I would also like a bowl of nuts, nuts in their
shells that you have to crack and dig out. There's also peanuts I
can't find them anymore that taste like what Christmas peanuts used
to taste like. There is nothing special with them and they don't
think they were necessarily roasted but there is a special flavor to
the Christmas peanuts that I would get in my sock every year that I
could not duplicate at any of the time of the year.
We are a month away from
Christmas. I should start but I will wait until the end of the week
for December 1. But already I'm getting filled with the spirit…
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