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What Doesn’t Drive Me Crazy About Xmas*
I’m a holiday grouch. In the interest of finding some seasonal grace, I’m taking a verbal fast from the sentence (…fill in the blank) is driving me crazy? For example, the long wait at the post office is driving me crazy. Or, the fact that I can’t find a spot in the parking lot of the movie theater because it happens to be in the same place as the shopping mall is driving me crazy. *Using Xmas as an abbreviation for Christmas is driving me crazy. I’m touchy. You get the point.
To turn around my mood, I’m compiling a list of the nice things about this time of year. As of today, I could only come up with five. PLEASE ADD YOUR OWN.
1. People donating money and time to charities
2. More chocolate truffles than usual
3. Cooks really giving it their best shot
4. Truly unexpected gifts
5. Between Christmas and New Years, there’s a lot less traffic (in L.A.)
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– all the nice decorations and lights that some people put on the outside of their house
– good excuse to eat something yummy
– good reason to put a few streamers up in your own living room, even if you don’t have a christmas tree
– the christmas movies that show on television always have a happy ending and they aren’t all murder movies
– the happy and smilign faces of children is often magnetic – you end up smiling along with THEM
– get to sleep in on the public holidays
* Eggnog lattes at Starbucks (and making eggnog lattes at home)
[…] I don’t don costumes for the holidays, nor do I dress my pets in gay apparel. But then again, I’m no Tim Burton. This festive 1997 Polaroid taken by the filmmaker extraordinaire, Tim Burton, is part of a major exhibition at MOMA showcasing the breadth of his art and other-worldly filmmaking career. Now through April 26, 2010 in New York. (This just made it to my list of holiday plusses.) […]
Hmmm, I am particularly fond of those special mint chocolates that only comes during Christmas.