At breakfast this morning with my powderpuff team, the topic of Thanksgiving came up and I told them of my tradition every year of helping to prepare the turkey with my grandmother. Nothing is wrong with this conversation, right? Right..the reason is because it is November and the proper month to only talk about thanksgiving and no other holidays such as Christmas. Why do stores, radio stations and plazas always try to force the next holdiay right away? Why does my work feel the need to send out christmas party invitations at the beginning of November? I wonder when the the holidays started to feel like a blurr to everyone. It just seems that no one actually takes the time to enjoy each holiday anymore..instead..it's "oh..send me a list of what you want" or.."geez i have to put that old christmas tree up again!" I wish people could enjoy it, and perhaps they do enjoy the rush of it all, but take time in savoring every moment as if it were the last bit of icecream on a spoon. Haha..maybe that was a weak analogy. Perhaps this rant of holidays came on me beacuse my mom just sent a text that read "putting up tree with jon..should we just do lights and then wait for you next week?" I immediately called her and begged her to wait until December 1 to even think about Rudolph and christmas carols. "But this is my last weekend off from work!" she replied. She was not about to give in. Dissapointed, I hung up just as she laughed and said "well, we can sip hot cocoa andn look at our harvest flags in the living room then." This poor world. In a couple decades, people will probably start to prepare for st. patricks day right after july 4th or something.
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