Merry Christmas Month

Officially December, the month of Christmas!!! Merry Christmas month.

It has been a crazy week for me. I will try to write something about it soon.

Most importantly Christmas month is here. I know how people say stores go on a commercial hyperdrive by exploiting Christmas, but I cannot agree with them. Why? Because I love how the malls, stores, etc spread the Christmas spirit. The Christmas carols... the trees... even the shoppers seem to adopt a effervescent mood.

When I was younger, I used to spend Christmas at one of my uncles house, but it was always an unpleasant experience. Before the evening was over, some sort of drama will break out. I am of course not allowed to sit in the hall or join in the party where they will be entertaining their rich friends. I will be forced into spending the whole Christmas day in the kitchen. So, in respect to myself, I quit spending Christmas in my uncles' kitchens.

I remember once sitting with a group of kids my age who came to Uncle Bas' Christmas party, and his girlfriend's daughter, a 30-something, started shouting, "Mom, why is she sitting here?" referring to me. It was a humiliating experience.

It is better to spend Christmas at my own house. I have my dad's old tree, he bought when I was 7..I had a hobby of collecting decorations when I was younger. So, I have tons of decorations.

And there won't be any uncles and aunts to look down on me.

I usually put out the tree a day before Christmas, but this year I am going to decorate the tree earlier. All the Christmas mood in Cheryl's and Andrew's blogs is getting to me.