I started my xmas shopping today. Feels good to finally get started, even if I am ridiculously late.
Last year, I had most of my shopping done by Dec. 1st, and all of it done well before Yule (the Winter solstice). It was wonderful. The best Yule season I've had in my adult life, I think. I got to just sit back and enjoy it. I could spend all of my energy on making the holiday more pleasant and fun and enjoyable, because I didn't have to spend it all on the work. All of the work was done. I actually got to just relax and enjoy it, for once.
Knowing that I wasn't going to have that experience again this year was actually one of the things that got me down a couple of weeks ago. I'd been so busy through the late fall that xmas just sorta snuck up on me, and I didn't see it coming until it was already here, and I was already behind in my work. "What? It's xmas already? Wait! I haven't started yet. I'm already late?! Crap! Last year was so wonderful, and this year is gonna suck now, and I never even had a chance!" It was just instantly depressing.
But there's some hope left. (Which seems appropriate, given the spirit of the season.) It's only December 4th, so I'm still getting a fairly early start, all things considered; just not quite as early as last year. But I've got some time left, is the point. And, I don't have as much shopping to do this year, which is going to help. With Snowflake being unemployed and underemployed for most of this year, we just can't afford to do the amount of shopping that we normally would. (Just one of the many unexpected brightsides to her unemployment. Blessing in disguise, that.)
So, I've got less work to do overall, and still a respectable amount of time left to do it.
Looks like this xmas might not be totally grinch'd just yet.
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