The Hated Holiday

I love the holidays.  I enjoy the idea of everything being decorated, and everyone seems to be in a good mood.  Everything looks festive and so pretty at this time of the year.   I get all wrapped up in the events and activities until PROCRASTINATION sets in. I want to be able to participate in everything to do with the holidays.  But I never seem to be able to do all the activities as I have procrastinated again.  By not doing the necessary tasks such as decorating, shopping, purchasing presents and, of course, wrapping all my treasures in a proper timely manner, and having not realized the potential of what activities I really would have time for, I have put myself under a time crunch. 

I love the holidays until the day of the event.  I have been so busy doing the things I want to do, or what others expect me to do, that I am not ready for the holiday.  My priorities get all screwed up and I am in trouble again.  Unfortunately, because I have not properly planned, I let things that are necessary to accomplish slide, making the demands of the season take over my having a wonderful and sane holiday.  Christmas is my biggest problem.   It is so much fun decorating and getting ready for this holiday.  I love to do something different each year.  Now, some people have found that the phrase “Less is More” works for them.  

The one phrase I am familiar with is, “More is More and Less is Boring”.  (something like that!).  It is so much fun planning what decorating I am going to do.  Decorating is my high point of getting ready for the holidays.   It is also fun to purchase new items for decorating, but when they get put on a cupboard waiting for the day I use them seems to be the norm for me.  We won’t talk about what decorating does to a house when everything is brought out of attics and placed all over so it is available when it is time to decorate is worked on.  Again, I tend to go overboard in the decorating department, and when you procrastinate doing this, you are in trouble. 

I love it all.  The TV Christmas programs, the music, baking cookies and candy, planning the meal, concerts, get-togethers, shopping, enjoying other people’s decorations, all that goes with that one holiday. All these activities are so much fun, and I want to be able to do them all.  Let’s not forget what the holidays are really about – The birth of Christ.  So, church is expected, wanted, and falls by the wayside.  

When I say I procrastinate at Christmas, this happens especially when purchasing presents.  Since it is my least favorite activity, it gets pushed to the end of the list of things to do.  It is very stressful, and extremely time-consuming, but highly anticipated.  Google is my friend at this point. 

Having perfected my act of procrastination and again having created hysteria, I find myself saying, “I hate Christmas.  

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