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Writer's Block: Traditional Pursuits
Dec. 10th, 2008 08:24 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
To be honest, I'm getting less and less fond of each and every holiday tradition. Christmas baking? Used to love it, increasingly a chore. Christmas at the parents, decorating the tree? Spare me. Christmas in retail? Usually beyond awful, this year non-hectic in differently but equally upsetting ways. Advent markets? Same old. Ventured across a couple of them today in search of gifts, suppressing the urge to buy a Christmas punch or several, because drinking punch at 2-3 in the afternoon, alone, is clearly beyond pathetic. Maybe 'alone' is the keyword & problem here, although it doesn't usually get to me like this, even at Christmas.
Plus, I've been seeing Vanillekipferln and Lebkuchen in the supermarkets since late August/early September, so it's really hard to still get enthusiastic.
I still sort of like getting people presents, though. And getting days off, oh definitely.
Then again today clearly isn't my best day. I was going to buy soap and paper handkerchiefs because I'm sniffing and sneezing again, which, oh the whole, you'd think wasn't an impossibly hard task. Spent a completely disproportionate amount of time wandering back and forth through the shop, because I kept forgetting what I wanted, especially once my, er, mind? not so much, got sidetracked by toothpaste. I don't even feel sick enough to justify that, just a bit sniffly and woozy.
To be honest, I'm getting less and less fond of each and every holiday tradition. Christmas baking? Used to love it, increasingly a chore. Christmas at the parents, decorating the tree? Spare me. Christmas in retail? Usually beyond awful, this year non-hectic in differently but equally upsetting ways. Advent markets? Same old. Ventured across a couple of them today in search of gifts, suppressing the urge to buy a Christmas punch or several, because drinking punch at 2-3 in the afternoon, alone, is clearly beyond pathetic. Maybe 'alone' is the keyword & problem here, although it doesn't usually get to me like this, even at Christmas.
Plus, I've been seeing Vanillekipferln and Lebkuchen in the supermarkets since late August/early September, so it's really hard to still get enthusiastic.
I still sort of like getting people presents, though. And getting days off, oh definitely.
Then again today clearly isn't my best day. I was going to buy soap and paper handkerchiefs because I'm sniffing and sneezing again, which, oh the whole, you'd think wasn't an impossibly hard task. Spent a completely disproportionate amount of time wandering back and forth through the shop, because I kept forgetting what I wanted, especially once my, er, mind? not so much, got sidetracked by toothpaste. I don't even feel sick enough to justify that, just a bit sniffly and woozy.
