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So it's December 9th, and we're on our way towards Christmas. Usually I am a huge Grinch about celebrating Christmas until about a week before the actual day, but this year I decided that if I participate in the celebrations, instead of grumbling about all the decorations and songs, I would have fun with it and it wouldn't be so bad. It's actually working. Here are a few ways I keep the Christmas spirit in my heart, and the sanity in my mind.
1. Instead of complaining, "THEY PLAYED THIS SONG ALREADY BLARGFF BORGIS MAPFDHJADLFKLH!", I use that same energy to OVER-sing along.
The merry tune of "Frosty the snowman" becomes "FROSTY THE SNOWMAN!" The delightful "Jingle bells" is twisted into "JINGLE BELLS!" Justin Bieber's "Under the Mistletoe" however, is still not sung. Turn that crap off.
It's a simple process really. Just use capslock. Or in real life, just increase the volume. Sing it as loud as you can. If there is a jolly laugh from Santa during the song, laugh along. Just make it MUCH LOUDER. As long as there is no one around to think you're insane, this is a good way to not be bothered by the carols and jingles.
2. I wear Christmas clothes. Or at least I try. I only really have one Christmas shirt. It looks like this. I bought it with the original intention of wearing it in the summer, because it would be out of place, but it works well for the Christmas season.
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| Haha, if you can tell by the watermark in the bottom left corner, I had to flip the picture. |
If you wear Christmas clothes, and then complain about Christmas things, you look like a fool. So basically, you are PHYSICALLY forcing yourself to not complain.
Putting physically in all caps in front of things is funny to me. It is PHYSICALLY funny to me. If you PHYSICALLY wear Christmas clothes, blah blah blah blah. PHYSICALLY PHYSICALLY PHYSICALLY.
3. PHYSICALLY decorate. Ok, that was the last time I'll say physically. Er- Ok that was.
When I lived in a dorm room last year, I brought a mini Christmas tree, and we hung lots of things on it. A knob from a piano on a piece of ribbon, a plastic spine, a rubber snake, for tinsel of course, tea bags, and many other things. To me it was fun looking at something and thinking, "Hey, we could hand that on the tree!" AND THEN DOING IT.
I made reference to complaining about Christmas a lot in this blog, and it may have made me look very whiny. I'm not whiny. I hope.
I ALMOST made this into a video blog. But I didn't. Hmph.
