Comments on: It came without ribbons! It came without tags! It came without packages, boxes, or bags!

By: brandy

brandy — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:08:09 +0000

Um, yes. I am soooo with you on this. I think I could give the Grinch a run for his money. And I’ve been working on it, really working. I bought the Josh Groban Christmas CD, I’ve been making Christmas cards…. but honestly, I feel more like I want to celebrate Valentines Day than Christmas. And as a single girl, you can imagine how much I don’t want to celebrate Valentines Day. Oy. Fingers crossed this feeling passes. For the both of us.

By: barbara bruederlin

barbara bruederlin — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:37:41 +0000

I am soooooo not into it. Christmas songs and decorations before Dec 1 should be rationale for homicide in my opinion.

By: Cat Chaser

Cat Chaser — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:54:47 +0000

Well, start singing O Internet, O Internet, you make my life easier.
Christamas shopping could be an ardous and painful task,
finding a parking space, trapped behind the slow moving yet loud crowd etc,
I am not so ready for it. I know am a slacker when it comes to shopping;).
I shop two hrs. before they close on 24th.

By: JACC

JACC — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:10:49 +0000

“this damn family needs to start drawing friggin’ names”

Thankfully The Wifey and my sis finally got the same message across to my family this year.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:06:32 +0000

I’ll qualify this first by saying, well, I do have my tree and lights up, tree, well, because it needed to go up to help with the lights, but I actually love the lights cause I love watching TV in the evening by the glow of the lights, and it’s not appropriate to put them up till after Thanksgiving, so they are back up, but the rest…not so much. My house may be decorated and therefore seem to show that I’m “in the spirt”…I’m so NOT. I was at the Mall of America last week (hate the place but braved it to get a nice hostess, not Christmas, gift for my friend that I’m visiting this weekend) and the Salvation Army bell ringers were out and both were sooo into the spirt I wanted to actually smack them. Yes, you read that right, smack the bell ringer. I’m just not there. I don’t want to shop, I don’t want to deal with anything Christmasy…other than liking my lights and wishing I could have them up year round (and I leave them up well into January!) without seeming weird, I am just not there. I hate that we are shoved into Christmas earlier and earlier every year and I hate that it’s so commerical…and this year I’m not even working retail over it, talk about pushing you OUT of the spirit, work retail at the holidays!!

By: anne

anne — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:15:42 +0000

well bah-humbug ms. grinch. make it through the weekend and exams and then you’ll have something to celebrate.

By: brookem

brookem — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:12:06 +0000

I so totally am in the same boat with you, my friend. Just not feeling it so much this year. I too, bought some holiday cards, but making them out last night felt like such a chore. And I hate that it felt like that. Thanksgiving is my holiday, and now that it’s over, I just can’t get pumped about Christmas. I have played some tunes for the holiday, watched the tree lighting last night, and that was all… okay, but something just isn’t clicking yet. Maybe once December hits it’ll feel more… real? Or when we get some snow? This 60 degree weather, it still being Novemeber, me not doing a spec of shopping yet… it all is a bad combo for the holiday spirit.

Sorry I just wrote a short story.

By: Bre

Bre — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:21:55 +0000

Clearly you need to come here and we can share a drink and bitch about [a lack of] quality men and nasty readers.

Then I’ll show you the loveliness of the pink sparkly tree – if that doesn’t put you in the holiday spirit, nothing will.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:42:21 +0000

Hey I’m a Grinch too! Everyone wants to listen to x-mas music at work and I’m so against it.
Plus, I think it is normal to want to find a good father.
And, as far as the half marathon goes – no worries it is just one foot in front on the other.
Lastly best of luck on the exam.

By: Airam

Airam — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:19:46 +0000

My family drew names for the longest time but now that we’ve got 6 little ones in the family, we’ve decided that the gift purchasing should only be for them. It’s all good … I’ll just use whatever money I’d have spent on the family and buy something for myself instead!