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12-04-2013, 05:21 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member | Holiday Spirit??? I am so not in the Holiday Spirit. I do not even want to decorate. I anyone that knows me knows I love to decorate . . .decorate for anything. Sorry I just needed to put it out there.
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12-04-2013, 05:29 AM | #2 |
Cedric♥Lola♥Keylo Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Gilford, NH, USA
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| sorry I hope your spirit picks up ...I wasnt in the mood either wasnt even going to decorate but we put on holiday music had a drink and decorated it turned out to be just what I needed to put me in the mood!
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12-04-2013, 06:43 AM | #3 |
♥Trained by my pups♥ Donating YT 500 Club Member | Just the opposite here I have had my tree up for weeks and all of my shopping done Weird for me to be done this early I sure hope the Spirit finds you soon
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12-04-2013, 06:58 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member | Oh my shopping is done. It did not put me in the spirit
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12-04-2013, 07:21 AM | #5 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: TX
Posts: 3,358
| I was that way last year. I didn't put up 1 single decoration, didn't do any parties or "gasp" host the traditional family dinner. We've hosted the family dinner for the last 11 years and I was tired of all the fuss and muss. Everyone came to our home and sat on their bums while I killed myself to make it the perfect day for everyone else. Taking the year off was the best thing I could have done. This year, I'm loving doing all the things again. So don't feel guilty, take the year off and pamper yourself. I bet you'll find you'll enjoy it and you'll be back in the holiday spirit next year.
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12-04-2013, 08:11 AM | #6 | |
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12-04-2013, 08:25 AM | #7 |
Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Oakland County MI
Posts: 6,190
| I know it's hard for you right now, so spend your time doing what makes you comfortable, not what you feel you have to do. The holiday is just a date on a calendar and to many people make such a big deal out of the preparing for the date that they forget to enjoy the company of the people in their lives or the days leading up to it. I have a friend that LOL decorates when she wants to, her Halloween stuff was up during Christmas last year and her Christmas things went up right afterwards and she enjoyed every bit of it, because it was based on her schedule not the calendar, she is single with no kids so of course that made things easier, but still she did what she wanted and so should you.
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12-04-2013, 08:34 AM | #8 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2013 Location: Roseville, CA
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| I'm somewhere in the middle... I too have had 5 trees up for a few weeks now, put our lights up outside last weekend, have most of my Christmas shopping done and yet it still doesn't feel very "Christmas-y" for me. I want it to feel all special soooo bad, but it feels kinda forced this year. Maybe I need some eggnog, I don't know
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12-04-2013, 09:05 AM | #9 |
Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Oakland County MI
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| thinking about this non holiday spirit, I have to say I have spirit now, but LOL loose it later. Why because I go to NY from MI pretty much every year to celebrate with my parents and only sister and her family. But the stress they put themselves under is crazy and it winds up spoiling it for me. Each year I say I am not going back but of course I do. My parents bless there heart argue constantly, well really it's my mom, she is always yelling at my dad to do something and since he is almost deaf he can't hear her, so it's her yelling BILL and him yelling WHAT the whole time I am there. She still can not face the fact that he is almost completely deaf and not ignoring her so it makes her angry that he does not hear her. My sister, her husband and daughter are constantly fighting. She hosts Christmas Dinner and since they will not help her with the preparations it puts her in a bad mood, she is always running behind so she starts barking orders at them and me and then everyone starts arguing, last year she told her DH not to put real wood on the fire, but he put pine logs on, which aggravated her allergies so after appetizers she went to her bedroom mad and stayed there until we were finished desert. Her 16 yr old is testy and even though my sister knows what pushes her buttons she starts in at her, so shortly before dinner my niece left in a huff with her boyfriend. Ian had to work the next day, so he spent Christmas day driving back home to MI by himself. My cousin will be hosting Christmas Eve this year like he did last year and that went very well, but LOL he insists on doing a full blown dinner which is just like the one my sister cooks the next day, ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, pies etc. He will not change his menu since he is single and preorders it at the grocery store and my sister will not change her menu because "WE ALWAYS" have ham, meanwhile I sort of hate ham, so I have to eat it two days in a row. Ian on the other hand loves ham yet he seems to always be driving home on Christmas so last year he was happy my cousin served it and gave him a doggie bag to take home. This Christmas was supposed to be a normal NY trip, i.e. Ian and I drive there, he drives back the day after Christmas and I fly back to MI after the weekend. Ian works at GM, Christmas week is always part of his vacation, well typical now there is talk they might work, while it is not mandatory he wants to work because it winds up being triple time. I would love to have this as an excuse to stay home but I already bought a return airline ticket, Broadway show tickets with my sister and I have a gathering of HS friends that I organized. Ian thinks I should fly out to NY and he can stay home and work. (which secretely I think he is happy about since he will miss a very Seinfeld like Christmas) But of course typical GM does not want to announce this yet, so we are left not knowing, which means I will probably loose the good air fair that Spirit is now offering. Hard to believe at 58 I still have all this family craziness, but actually we are very close and love each other to pieces so I hate to miss it. But I keep saying why can't we make it less about the food and all the preparations and just enjoy each other. I really think so much emphasis is put on making it special that in some families the stress just takes over and ruins the fun. Anyway I thought my story would help give you guys a laugh that are feeling a bit humbuggish
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12-04-2013, 09:08 AM | #10 |
YT 2000 Club Member | Usually I am the one not in the spirit for Christmas, but this year, I am in full holiday spirit! I think it has to do with my 2 girls....Teeka and Tatiana. Last year I had recently lost my little girl, Tameka of 10 years and I didn't feel like celebrating. This year I have been decorating, dressing my girls and Max for the holidays. I have taken some pictures of them in their holiday wear. They make it so much fun! I also have a granddaughter living with me and she brings out the holiday spirit in me. I guess I have been seeing the joy of Christmas through the eyes of a child! The holidays don't have to be about the shopping, baking and the bustle! Make it what you want it to be.....sit, relax and be with family or loved one.
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12-04-2013, 09:59 AM | #11 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Maui, Hawaii
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| I have had times of not being in the spirit due to circumstances, or family illness, etc., but mostly because of expectations I put on myself to overkill the shopping, decorating, baking, entertaining, and all of it. I often exhaust myself, and can't wait for it to all be over. So I just scaled it all back a bit, and now can enjoy it again. Seeing my granddaughter's excitement over it all, noticing every decoration, helping make cookies, and loving every little gift makes it all worthwhile.
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12-04-2013, 10:35 AM | #12 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member | Well on top of no spirit, I am getting guilt because Jon has to work Christmas Eve and the day after. And to drive to my family is a 2 hr trip on a good day and from where I am to LI, it is killer. I do not want to not be with Jon because I want to celebrate with him. His father is not coming up this year so he would be alone. And it is not even Mom giving me grief. It is my sisters. This is not helping. Last year I didn't put up a tree because I had 2 kittens. It is bad with one but I definitely would see two looking at me from the tree. I am really trying to get into the spirit but not happening.
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12-04-2013, 10:37 AM | #13 | |
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12-04-2013, 12:27 PM | #14 |
Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Oakland County MI
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| that's a good idea Teri, I love chicken What about a compromise and go there on the weekend in between, you could stop by my place on the way out there and I could get my Galen fix. IMO to much emphasis is put on the 25th, what difference does a date really make. about 4 years ago I flew home in the middle of Dec and we celebrated then, I have to say it was more fun, I went to a church play my niece was in, ate some good Italian food out, shopped, watched old movies with my mom, just much more enjoyable. I think that is what I will do next year.
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12-05-2013, 04:55 PM | #15 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member | Oh that sounds good. It would be great to see you. Hugs
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