Life has been hectic, maybe even more so than usual, in the past month or so. So of course I managed to fail at so many things. When it came to cards I didn’t mail out any. So I sent out e-cards for Christmas. I couldn’t find any suitable e-cards for Chanukah, so I totally failed there. My apologies. The house was decorated in a neo-minimalist style – meaning there are almost no decorations because I failed at getting them put up. There’s more, but…
OK, I don’t mean for this to be a dreary post. I learned something from this. I tried to learn things all year, and this all reinforces some points. Now I need to work on strategies to overcome these problems. So, let’s look on this as a major fail for this holiday season, one which I take full responsibility for, one which I deeply regret, and one which I will try to use to move forward and thus make a good thing out of – or at least something that I can use for good.
Overall, Christmas was good. The party earlier in the month was great. Christmas with the families was also good. I received far more than I expected. I am existing in gravely diminished circumstances, so giving was limited. My wife and I scaled back to the point where Scrooge would almost approve of our behavior. Of course, as in years past, everyone in our families said that spending would be limited. I don’t think that word means what they think it means. Well, yeah, I know they know, but they were being generous in as subtle a way as possible. I was overwhelmed. People were generous. I’m not saying that I got a ton of gifts, but there were books involved, and that is always a good thing.
We didn’t make it to a friend’s annual New Year’s Day event. Lately, by January 1st we’re both too run down to manage anything. So, fail. I did, however, manage to take the day off. I tend to always worry about what needs to be done and I build up the stress and anxiety trying to do stuff and agonizing over what I can’t do and I do this every day. This year I actually just sat around and relaxed. I consider that a good thing.
I actually took the whole weekend off.
So I am behind and I need to catch up with my blogging, since I know you are all eagerly awaiting each post.
More to come.
2 comments:
Are you intimating that Christmas is all about the money? Cos I never heard it 'splained that way before. I might need to smack you. And it's not even my holiday.
Do something productive (OK, that's relative, and my definition may not match yours) : sign up for facebook, add me as a friend, and then I will send you an invite for a very special group.
No, I didn't mean it that way. It's just hard not being able to give what I want and accept generosity without being able to reciprocate.
It also hurt that I couldn't give to my favorite charities - which I always do at the end of the year because of increased need (I also used to give at other times).
It's not the money, it's the giving, which is symbolic. It could be argued that this year was more significant because of the financial limitations. I'm just saying things wrong.
Facebook, eh? I've never been there. I'll go look.
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