No Spirit

The computer has just been returned from it's out-of-warranty service to it's regular resting place on my desk, and I've been reading through blogs I haven't been able to keep up with the past couple of weeks.

It seems, from the little I've read, that there is an abundance of Christmas Spirit out there. Mostly in Texas, I think, which is too bad for me. I need some right here, right now. Like Mame after she lost the job she had to take at Macy's because she lost all of her money in the stock market crash. I need a little Christmas.

Send some Christmas spirit to New England.

And a little snow too. Please.

Frankly, it looks like Christmas has puked all over my house. And outside the house too. Lights, trees, greenery, Santas. You name it. It's cluttering up the house. And I couldn't feel less in the Christmas spirit than I would, say, on Arbor Day. I'm just not getting it.

I have taken it upon myself to make gifts this year. Or to craft gifts. Or to attempt to make something that someone might like, because they definitely don't want it, but it's the best I can do under the circumstances. I've been avoiding shopping since anything I spend will have to be via credit card, and I'm already worried about how I will pay the minimum AND the phone bill. I'm worried, but not in despair yet. I keep thinking that something will happen.

I'm a Pisces, and also a dreamer, so my plan for the future is fraught with a lack of reality. Oh, and Mercury is retrograde right now, so I also can't find anything that I had in my hand a moment ago and put down. Especially if it's related to one of my homemade "projects". Scissors? Tape? They were right there on the table. Where the hell did they go? I think it's not so much Mercury that's screwing me up, as it is the evil Christmas elves. Santa must've had a "reduction in force" and all of the laid off elves are now living in my basement, using my washer and dryer, and wreaking havoc with my "projects".

I'm cutting it close, and I'm not nearly ready, but I'm going out for coffee with a friend tomorrow anyway.

Maybe I'll find some holiday cheer in the bottom of a fat-free Peppermint Mocha Latte.