Christmas Spirit
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:15 pm
For me this year has been stressful and it feels like it has gotten worse the closer it has gotten to christmas.
Today I had to go get a grab bag gift for work with my mind stressed over the tightness of my pocket, the gift I had to get and my friend telling me how cheap and fucked up I was for spending 13.00 at bath and body works, when I should of spent $20 and when was I going to get her gift. (I have a very selfish friend who always has to be corrected)
On our way home she's yapping and I suddenly this National Lampoons Christmas Vacation House but it was actually nicer. LOL.
So, my friend turns down the block to get to the house and we park and get out and we're walking around this person's yard and there was a little crowd but everybody was pretty quiet.
I'm watching some of the kids pulling this cord that came from the roof of the house from santa's sleigh down to the yard and as you pulled on it there were little packages attached that you could take as gifts.
Just the whole atmosphere with the people standing around and we're all complete strangers and we're talking like we've known each other for years about how beautiful the house was and you could just feel the real spirit of christmas.
This was what is was truly about not the stress that I was feeling over other people and them hounding me about stupid stuff. Then my friend goes I wonder what there light bill must be like and this guy in the back goes yea, I feel like we should help them. So, we each gave them a couple of bucks to help them with the light bill. Then later on my friend apologized for how she acted earlier.
Today I had to go get a grab bag gift for work with my mind stressed over the tightness of my pocket, the gift I had to get and my friend telling me how cheap and fucked up I was for spending 13.00 at bath and body works, when I should of spent $20 and when was I going to get her gift. (I have a very selfish friend who always has to be corrected)
On our way home she's yapping and I suddenly this National Lampoons Christmas Vacation House but it was actually nicer. LOL.
So, my friend turns down the block to get to the house and we park and get out and we're walking around this person's yard and there was a little crowd but everybody was pretty quiet.
I'm watching some of the kids pulling this cord that came from the roof of the house from santa's sleigh down to the yard and as you pulled on it there were little packages attached that you could take as gifts.
Just the whole atmosphere with the people standing around and we're all complete strangers and we're talking like we've known each other for years about how beautiful the house was and you could just feel the real spirit of christmas.
This was what is was truly about not the stress that I was feeling over other people and them hounding me about stupid stuff. Then my friend goes I wonder what there light bill must be like and this guy in the back goes yea, I feel like we should help them. So, we each gave them a couple of bucks to help them with the light bill. Then later on my friend apologized for how she acted earlier.
I am pretty upset, and I can't believe his boss is such a f*$#!&* jerk... This is such a special day ruined by a corporate republican company... Happy Holidays, to everyone and I will be sure to send my husband with some coal for his boss' big desk!