The Holiday Blues
You can’t blame yourself for being a little timid during this time of the year. There is no point in stressing over it. Remember playing tee ball as a kid and striking out? Dust yourself off and continue on. You can’t run away from the holidays. They are inevitable like a runny nose in December or slipping on an icy sidewalk. Yup, digging inside your jacket pocket for a tissue will only have you polishing the ice with your…bottom line is that you are not a people person, but that’s o.k. This year you would rather spend it at home, alone, watching reruns of Mork and Mindy and eating cold pizza. What a great way to share the holiday cheer with the rest of the world.
We have all been there before. It is called the holiday blues, a state of mind that keeps us distant from the rest of the world until the holiday season is over. Once you get it there is no getting off of this funky ride. Fasten your seatbelt. Next stop – Grinch City – a desolate place where the holiday cheer ceases to exists. Lock the doors and shut the windows. Close the curtains and turn off all the lights. Get rid of all signs of the holiday season. This means holiday themed music, decorations and avoiding the shopping rush. Granted, you may be a grouch, but there is still something in you that likes this time of the year.
Your secret is safe with me. Each year you stay up late at night, listening to some obscure song sung by a group of out of tune chipmunks, adding your signature to a bunch of personalized stationery cards. Today you are going to get over your indifference – besides, you have visited Grinch City before and surprisingly – it is also a place without roasted turkey.
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Holiday cheer has never been a problem for me. I love to send out a giant mountain of personalized cards for Christmas to everyone I know, and spread the cheer. I do like for the holidays to wait their turn, though. It bugs me to see Christmas stuff being put up before Halloween is even over. In an ideal world, I would like Thanksgiving to get its fair due as well, and for the Christmas stuff to not kick into high gear until Black Friday, but sadly that’s never going to happen.
17 November 2012, 12:47 pmHenry B Springs
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18 November 2012, 7:28 amHilma Conger
Hey, cold pizza is delicious! At least, it usually tastes better than if you warm it up again in the microwave. But anyway, if there’s anything about the holidays that gets me down, it’s hearing the same obnoxious songs over and over again (you mentioned the chipmunks, and that’s EXACTLY what I’m talking about) for months on end. Couldn’t we wait until December at least to start spamming the Christmas music everywhere?
But aside from that, I do enjoy the holidays. It’s nice to send out personalized Christmas cards to everybody, and to read the ones they send me. Some people that I’m a bit closer to and exchange gifts with, are getting personalized stationery of one sort or another this year.
18 November 2012, 12:51 pmMary Beth
I’ve gotten the holiday blues once or twice before. Who hasn’t? Fortunately it’s not a very common problem for me, as I usually LOVE this time of year! So many parties, so much time spent with friends and family, and everyone having a great time almost constantly!
It’s the time right after the holidays when I tend to get a little down. Not only do the bills start to roll in, but coming down from the constant excitement of the holidays is kind of a let-down, especially since there aren’t too many big days to look forward to in the first couple months of the new year. That’s why I save the personalized cards that I get during the holiday season. Rereading those lets me remember all the fun I have during this time of year, and relive it just a little bit to cheer me up during the bleak and boring months of post-holiday winter.
I know I’m not the only one who thinks like this, so when I send out my own personalized cards, I try to infuse each personal message with all the joy and awesome holiday feeling that I can. That way when someone reads my card, they can always remember what a great time of year this is!
18 November 2012, 1:46 pmRay Williams
I know it’s early yet in this holiday season – Thanksgiving has not quite arrived, Black Friday is yet to come, and of course we still have Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, or whatever holiday you celebrate yet to come. And last but not least, New Year’s Eve.
But still, I’ve had a little bit of holiday blues already this year. There’s still plenty of time for it to get better, and I’m sure it will, but so far the personalized cards haven’t been that much fun for me. Maybe I need to send out a new style?
18 November 2012, 2:32 pmAshley Boyd
We all get it. I think the blues comes with the holidays. Don’t know why this happens to some of us, but a gift like a personalized card always seems to cheer me up. It doesn’t matter if you are giving or receiving one – for me it’s a great way to get in the spirit of the holidays.
19 November 2012, 4:21 pmHenry Springs
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20 November 2012, 4:20 amWriter: Clark Griswold