Christmas cheer....
Dec. 24th, 2009 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ash48*phew* I'm back in (vidding) business. Seems like forking out $20 is the answer after all. Though still no idea why QT has a trim option but no way to export the file.....
Anyways..
It's Chrissy eve. All is prepared for a day of present opening, family merriment and food.
I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas. The extreme excesses of Christmas bother me greatly - especially when the planet is groaning under the strain of excess consumerism. I am seriously considering starting a campaign against the blatant waste of Christmas crackers (bon-bons). I personally banned them a few years ago and I feel that if everybody stopped buying the silly things, then they'll stop making them. Because really? What good are they? A product made mostly of paper, with a cheap plastic thing inside it and a joke. We pull it and it goes bang (minds out of the gutter please!), we don ridiculous looking paper hats, share our silly joke and that's it. Then ALL of it goes in the bin. Makes no sense to me....
Or am I being a Christmas grouch? I can be a little bit ba-humbug this time of year.
The love part is spending time with family, sharing gifts that have been really thought about and relaxing because really there's nothing else to do. And I also get a lot of glee from watching my daughter open presents. That's always been pretty magical.
So. MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all. Or HAPPY HOLIDAYS if you don't celebrate it. Or LOVE AND SMISHES just 'cause. I really do hope you all have a wonderful time.
Check you on the flip side. <3 <3
Sarah
Anyways..
It's Chrissy eve. All is prepared for a day of present opening, family merriment and food.
I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas. The extreme excesses of Christmas bother me greatly - especially when the planet is groaning under the strain of excess consumerism. I am seriously considering starting a campaign against the blatant waste of Christmas crackers (bon-bons). I personally banned them a few years ago and I feel that if everybody stopped buying the silly things, then they'll stop making them. Because really? What good are they? A product made mostly of paper, with a cheap plastic thing inside it and a joke. We pull it and it goes bang (minds out of the gutter please!), we don ridiculous looking paper hats, share our silly joke and that's it. Then ALL of it goes in the bin. Makes no sense to me....
Or am I being a Christmas grouch? I can be a little bit ba-humbug this time of year.
The love part is spending time with family, sharing gifts that have been really thought about and relaxing because really there's nothing else to do. And I also get a lot of glee from watching my daughter open presents. That's always been pretty magical.
So. MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all. Or HAPPY HOLIDAYS if you don't celebrate it. Or LOVE AND SMISHES just 'cause. I really do hope you all have a wonderful time.
Check you on the flip side. <3 <3
Sarah
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Date: 2009-12-27 11:47 pm (UTC)I think I always hate the lead up to Christmas - the rush and stress and pointless gift buying because we "have" to.
But I usually enjoy the actual day (only if I'm not having to do the food making!).
Hee! And it's not rambling. It's sharing your thoughts!! :D
xx