Wednesday, 02 December 2009
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Grinch-Not Getting into the Holiday Spirit
Guest Post By Mommy's Joy
There is this Christmas groove I’m supposed to be able to jump into right about now. You know. Get in the Christmas spirit. But all I’m feeling is Bah-hum-bug. I keep saying to myself, maybe I’ll feel more into it after I take EJ to see Santa. Maybe I’ll feel more into it if I get some Christmas shopping done. Maybe once I get our tree up and the house decorated. Maybe the thought of all that feels so overwhelming all I really want to do is skip December entirely. Oh wait! That’s a bad idea! Because then we are one month closer to January. My birthday month. The month I turn…… ARRG….. 35!
Excuse me while I go hyperventilate for a minute!
I’m thinking maybe I should just give up on that groove and jump into another one. The thoughts of Jolly Ole’ St. Nick just make me irritated. The idea of wrapping all those gifts just make me think of paper cuts. And GAACK, Christmas cookies. I think I need to find a new groove. I highly doubt my husband will go for switching religions and I don’t REALLY want to stop Christmas from happening but why can’t I just be less “Ho ho ho” about it? Who says I have to be all perky wearing tinsel in my hair? Why can’t I walk around like my dad, Bah-hum-bugging everywhere? I can still enjoy looking at the pretty lights and the presents right?
*Sigh*
All right, I guess I’m just feeling a little of the Christmas blues. I know once I start seeing more days count off the calendar and I start moving the little stuffed Santa down the “days till Christmas” thing my Grandmother made, I’ll start getting more excited. Lots of good things happen during Christmas. I get to see my parents for one. They live on the other side of the map and we don’t get to see each other much unless you count webcams. And then there is the way the house smells with the tree in it. Getting to torture the dogs by putting antler headbands on them. After Christmas sales!!! And yes of course, the pretty pretty lights and the presents.
So maybe this year I won’t be wearing little Christmas tree bulbs from my ears starting at Turkey day, but I can fake it till I feel it!
How do you get into the holiday spirit?
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Comments (5)
Honestly, I'm going through the motions. (But that's more than I can say for several years in history where cards didn't get sent out, we didn't bother with a tree or gifts, etc.. ...of course, we didn't have children in the house then either...) If you find the magic switch, you'll tell me where it's at, right??
Classic symptom of getting old: beginning to hate christmas.
I love the holidays expecially christmas but it does take me awhile to start getting into it. but once im into it there is no turning back and i cant wait to the day comes lol
i haven't been able to get in the holiday mood this yr either its supposed to be about family and i feel that since something is missing whats the point
先說年號問題，明朝皇帝在位時間再長， 酒店兼差年號也只有一個，惟獨他特殊，在位總共不過十五年，年號卻有兩個，前一個叫正統，後一個叫天順。倒不是因為他非要搞特權，兩個年號之間， 禮服店是由一大堆可氣的事串起來的。
先說正統朝，差不多是地球酒店打工人都知道的，這麼多的忠良幹才他不信任，偏寵信一個教書先生出身的太監王振， 一幹閹党把國家禍害得烏煙瘴氣。後來瓦剌犯邊，忠臣良將的苦勸不聽，偏聽死太監攛掇，非要御駕親徵， 合法酒店經紀帶著幾十萬人牛氣哄哄出了長城，按說既然親徵你就好好 打啊，他不，走到半道又後悔了，連敵人影 酒店工作都沒見著就撤兵，撤兵麼撤得快點啊，跑還沒跑成，讓人家圍在土木堡包了餃子，稀裏糊塗一場 酒店上班混戰，幾十萬大軍全死 光，連本人也當了俘虜。丟人到如此，實在可氣。
英宗被抓到蒙古高原上去啃生羊肉了， 酒店兼職爛賬總要有人收拾。皇帝讓人綁了，敵人打到家門口了，總不成學宋朝 來個衣冠南渡吧！還好喝酒 有他親弟弟給他收拾，弟弟朱祁鈺繼承帝位，改年號為景泰，可氣的正統朝總算結束了。景泰帝信用 酒店PT良臣于謙，成功組織北京保衛戰打垮敵 人，再運用外交壓力，逼得酒店喝酒 瓦剌把英宗放回來當太上皇，總算不用學宋徽宗那樣客死他鄉。折騰半天，祖宗江山差點丟了不說 禮服酒店，皇位也折騰沒了。這樣的鬧劇，怪不 得別人。
雖是傻事敗事一籮筐，但傻人總算有傻福，雖說皇位沒了， 台北酒店經紀命還是保住了，回來舒舒服服過太上皇的日子倒也 不交際應酬 錯，可他不消停，拉幫結派培植私人勢力，幾年後趁著弟弟病重搞了場“奪門之變”。奪粉味 回了皇位不說，上臺第一件事就是殺掉了功臣于謙。並把當初北京保衛戰 的功臣們來了個大清洗，掌握朝政大權的都是徐有貞、石亨、曹吉祥等一幫姦險小人。雖然過了沒幾年，這幾個人也被明英宗清算，下獄的下獄（石亨），充軍的充 軍（徐有貞） 寒假打工，被殺的被殺（曹吉祥），可明朝的政治氣象，還是一片烏煙瘴氣。
皇位奪回來了，自然就要改年號。於是，明英宗 兼差改年號為天順。從正統年到天順年，打敗仗，殺忠良，寵小人，亂國家，儘是他辦的敗事， 酒店小姐每每讀史到此，不知有多少人氣得 酒店公關直哆嗦。
可正統朝的事畢竟年頭遠了，真正給後 暑假打工世攢下麻煩的，是天順朝。
“天順”麼，按字面意思，自然有風調雨順的意思。 打工從這個意義上說，“天順”朝時代的明朝，運氣還真不 壞，別的且不說，單說綁過明英宗票的瓦剌，那在土木堡創下台北酒店經紀擊敗明朝幾十萬大軍，活捉明朝皇帝偉業的瓦剌首領也先，沒死在大對頭明朝手裏，倒在內戰中被一刀 砍死。到了天順朝時期，瓦剌又和鄰居韃靼打個不停，因此，雖然少了良將於謙，但終天順一朝的邊 酒店境形勢，還算是太平無事。