Friday, November 14, 2008

Holiday Countdown

For some reason, the holiday season - no matter how much I look forward to it and want to be all cheery about it - brings me down. To me I suppose the holidays are much more about family and less about gifts (maybe because my family has never been affluent enough to really get me much on Christmas; or maybe it's because no one knows me well enough to know what $10 item I will go nuts for). This year though, I want to force myself into some Christmas cheer. I haven't decorated my own tree in at least 3 or 4 years, I don't have a single Christmas CD and it's been far too long since I've gone to see the Nutcracker ballet or any Christmas event for that matter.

So this year I am going to push myself to get into the Christmas spirit. It should be good for morale, since this has been a long year with many challenges and changes. So here are my holiday season goals:
  1. Send out Christmas cards: I do this every year, but I want to be sure and do it again.
  2. Buy a fresh-cut tree and decorate it with 100% new/color-coordinated decorations: This will be my first tree with my boyfriend (we didn't get one last year), so I want it to be OUR stuff that goes on it.
  3. Listen to Christmas music: I like Trans-siberian Orchestra and some of the more classical Christmas music like Handel's Messiah. The Twelve Days of Christmas? Not so much...
I also have thrown myself into the volunteer ring to help with my work Christmas party. I am the talent coordinator and so I have to find an hours worth of acts, write a skit for the managers and likely MC the show. It ought to be fun since I like using my planning skills to put together events. My worst fear though is that people will be bored!

To finish out my holiday post, I'm going to do a short-list of my most coveted Christmas gifts (mostly so my boyfriend can get the hint-hint!).

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