Grinch

As kids, Christmas used to be this huge event of sorts. You'd spend the months before it being good enough for Santa to grant you your wishes (because you were you and naive you still believed in Santa). If not that, you at least try and convince your parents to get you that thing you've been eyeing from the store windows for quite some time. You'd get all worked up in the days that come near it, constantly looking under the tree to see if your pile of gifts have grown - shaking boxes to try and guess what surprise was contained within. As a kid, you're all excitement before you go to bed knowing you'll finally get to open your gifts when you wake up in the morning.

Growing up is a completely different story though. You don't even realize it's Christmas until you hear Christmas carols in stores. The first time this happens you were probably even thrown off and thought, "wow that was half a year already?!" You'd spend weeks putting off Christmas shopping until there's 2 more left and you brave the malls, shove through crowds, and get ticked off at retail people because they operate too slow. You stress out about not having enough time to look for gifts and you know that's your fault but you keep blaming work for consuming all your time.

Christmas this year wasn't the same. I'll have to go into detail on why in a different post but that's what brought on this Grinch-like post. I know the real reason behind Christmas and I tried not to sound negative but... I didn't feel Christmas at all this year. I'm glad I got to spend a few days off of work and spend time with the family but other than that, things were normal.

So there's that. Even this blog post is late. Looking forward to New Years, as always. There's always something about new possibilities and a clean slate that puts a smile on my face.