 |
| Image courtesy of JSF Fauxtagraphy on Flickr |
- shopping malls
- buying a gift for coworkers in a secret santa draw
- poor quality chocolate
- the five pounds I inevitably gain from eating too much baking
- almost never having snow at Christmas in Vancouver
- the fever pitch of consumerism
- that awkward moment when you open a gift that you really don't like
- thinking about the mountain of packaging that gets chucked into the landfill
- not having enough time to make all my gifts
- ugly Christmas cards
- getting religious carols stuck in my head
- plastic tree decorations
- fake Christmas trees
- looking at first generation LED Christmas lights & getting that high-speed strobey effect
- drunk drivers
- getting Raffi's version of Christmas songs stuck in my head
- receiving fewer Christmas cards than I send out
- the cost of postage
- having two or more events I'd love to attend scheduled at the same time
- disposable tinsel
- Christmas light strings with some of the lights not working
- the barrage of constant charity appeals
- all the high-fructose corn syrup in Christmas candies
- the insanity of Boxing Day sales
- the fact that it all gets less exciting each year
- - - - - - - -
Why Monday lists? Reading the lovely Chloe's blog, Tea Swamp Park, I found an idea I had to 'steal': a list of all her Halloween costumes, with quite a few photos. She got the idea from Hula Seventy's List Project. I've decided to do the weekly lists for a year that Hula Seventy is doing.
The best part is spending a lot of time, energy, and money to travel a great distance to be with family. Then finding out that none of them will be around. Even though they don't have to spend nearly as much time, energy, and money to be there.
ReplyDelete