Busy and upside down
December 11th, 2005 by Bill
While I don’t like being bored, I don’t like being busy either. And lately my world has been really busy, and not with the sorts of things I’d like to be busy with.
Following a labour blip of several months, the workplace is back on track and now everyone is running around in a kind of catch-up mode – and it’s just way to hectic. And there’s just way too much to do.
And so my blogging kind of hit a wall. Even when I had time to blog my brain was too fried so I would just stare at the screen. Had I posted last week, the posts would have consisted of, “Duh.”
Maybe I should have posted that.
I did manage to comment on a few blogs. But it seems to me they amounted to the ravings of a lunatic.
Christmas upside down
It’s also the time of year. At the risk of sounding Grinch-like, I think Christmas (the good part of it) lasts roughly 3 to 6 hours. It begins on Christmas Eve, sometime after 6:00 pm, and lasts until you go to bed. Basically, it’s the brief period when you can’t buy anything, and no can rush you off to this or that because everything’s closed, and no one has a social event planned that you need to rush to and all the stress crap ends, if only briefly.
One of the most annoying comments I hear about the Christmas season and how vulgar it is now (it’s not a religious season and it’s not a family-oriented season and it’s not a season of good cheer – it’s a marketing campaign) is how Christmas has to be the way it is because so many businesses are dependent on it to make their year.
I say, let ‘em go under.
It may sound as if I hate Christmas. But I don’t. I love it. I just hate what we’ve turned it into.
I find it fascinating that they are now selling upside down Christmas trees – really. It’s true. And I think, what a perfect symbol for what we’ve turned Christmas into. Something upside down.
“Everything’s made to be broken …”
Bill, I agree with you. Christmas, as a time to sit with your loved ones and nosh, is fantastic. The marketing campaign we’ve allowed it to become is vile.