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Christmas

At work, some of the international offices have been sending holiday messages to the other offices. In the UK and the US we are encouraged to say Happy Holidays and Seasons Greetings, so we don't offend anyone who is Jewish or Muslim or whatever. So which office was the first to break that unwritten rule and wish everyone Merry Christmas? The office in Jerusalem. That's awesome.

I'm not particularly into Christmas this year. After going back home for a visit a few months back, Christmas just seems like a shiny tinsel-covered reminder of all the people I wish I could see at Christmas. And just after Christmas is my birthday. I'm going to be 32. It feels like I'm crossing that line from "you're still young and you've still got time" into "if you want to have kids you'd better get working on it now." It's gone from all my brother's friends who are a few years older than me having kids to all my friends who are 5 years younger than me having kids. I'm getting old.

I've been trying to get into the Christmas spirit. I loaded my mp3 player with Christmas music, only to find that half of it is deeply depressing and the other half is boring or annoying.

At least I've got some time off work. I have some projects I need to work on around here.

Alana

Posted by Alana on December 17, 2008 10:22 PM |


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Comments

I know what you're saying. I'm having a hard time with Christmas myself this year for essentially the same reason. We're mostly alone and I'm feeling old. Maybe 32 and 57 are magic ages in a depressing sort of way.

Posted by: mom | December 18, 2008 10:26 PM

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