Tuesday, November 29, 2005
The Holidays
I hate 'em. I used to love 'em, but now I just hate em.
There are aspects I still like. I like the idea of remembering my friends and family. I like the ideas of love and food. I actually really like wrapping stuff. I love curling ribbon because lots of people can't curl ribbon (even my mom!) and I love to curl ribbon. (I kind of like that my sisters-in-law host the big day events and I don't have to do very much at all, but sometimes that's sort of sad, too.)
But mostly, there are lots of things to hate. People start driving crazy. I hate a lot of the decorations. I hate the shopping and how nasty people get. I hate the business reports. I worry about what to get my nephews. And I really hate the songs on the radio that don't go away.
The thing I love and hate the most about the season. There was one thing I saw in Delaware that I thought was so pretty that I brought it back to Los Angeles. In Delaware, people put electric candles in their windows all year round, and it is a pretty effect. It looks like you're waiting for someone to come home. And the candles can be seen for miles. I've had little old ladies out walking their dogs knock on my door at evening and tell me how they loved my candles in the window (they couldn't see inside, whew) and how they lit my home. It is pretty. Next to the houses in the neighborhood with animated reindeer and puffy snowmen with their noisy fans that blow them up, it is understated. It's like, in the 60s, with all the paisley and psychedelia, The White Album. I like driving up to my house at night and seeing them accenting the windows. But when I started doing this, I stupidly I bought these battery operated candles half-off the year before, and we use rechargeable batteries all season long and poor Todd is running chargers and batteries around all over the house and I hate that. (The nice expensive ones run on electric plugs, and even have sensors that sense when it's getting dark and turn themselves on so you don't have to run around the house and turn them on at sundown. The one seasonal decoration I find pretty and inoffensive that I am willing to do, and it is environmentally stupid and very labor intensive decoration. I hate that.
There are aspects I still like. I like the idea of remembering my friends and family. I like the ideas of love and food. I actually really like wrapping stuff. I love curling ribbon because lots of people can't curl ribbon (even my mom!) and I love to curl ribbon. (I kind of like that my sisters-in-law host the big day events and I don't have to do very much at all, but sometimes that's sort of sad, too.)
But mostly, there are lots of things to hate. People start driving crazy. I hate a lot of the decorations. I hate the shopping and how nasty people get. I hate the business reports. I worry about what to get my nephews. And I really hate the songs on the radio that don't go away.
The thing I love and hate the most about the season. There was one thing I saw in Delaware that I thought was so pretty that I brought it back to Los Angeles. In Delaware, people put electric candles in their windows all year round, and it is a pretty effect. It looks like you're waiting for someone to come home. And the candles can be seen for miles. I've had little old ladies out walking their dogs knock on my door at evening and tell me how they loved my candles in the window (they couldn't see inside, whew) and how they lit my home. It is pretty. Next to the houses in the neighborhood with animated reindeer and puffy snowmen with their noisy fans that blow them up, it is understated. It's like, in the 60s, with all the paisley and psychedelia, The White Album. I like driving up to my house at night and seeing them accenting the windows. But when I started doing this, I stupidly I bought these battery operated candles half-off the year before, and we use rechargeable batteries all season long and poor Todd is running chargers and batteries around all over the house and I hate that. (The nice expensive ones run on electric plugs, and even have sensors that sense when it's getting dark and turn themselves on so you don't have to run around the house and turn them on at sundown. The one seasonal decoration I find pretty and inoffensive that I am willing to do, and it is environmentally stupid and very labor intensive decoration. I hate that.
Thursday, November 10, 2005
TV Shrinks
Dr. Phil says: "You're not worthless, you're just scared."
