wait. santa clause is coming to town?
Help! I’m still not in the Christmas mood. This is really distressing to me, considering it’s December 11. I’ve tried many different tactics like online shopping (meh, not feeling it), wandering through the Commons and seeing the tree and watching people skate (nope), baking lots of holiday cookies (yummy, but that’s all), and sitting in Starbucks for hours listening to their Christmas music over and over and over (annoying).
NOTHING is happening inside me! I don’t understand. It’s never taken me this long to be all holly jolly like. I heard about people going to holiday parties this week and I LOLed. What? It seemed so early. And then I realized that people had been going to holiday parties for weeks now. Where have I been? Clearly not being invited to holiday parties.
This weekend I’ll do a bit of shopping and celebrating and hopefully will feel something. I also have a pretty busy next couple of weeks going out and doing semi-holiday-ish stuff, so let’s hope that works. I want to be merry and happy and excited for the holidays. Like now.
Oh, wait. I just got distracted by a television commercial and spent the last 15 minutes look at this website. It is an indoor water park!!!! How amazing is that? I seriously wish I had thought of the idea to build this place. I need to go and soon. Boston friends, come with? And I think I just discovered my problem…I wasn’t quite ready for summer to be over. So now instead of being excited for snow and Santa, I want to hang out at indoor water parks.
If you can’t afford a tropical vacation, take one to CoCoKey. Please?
December 12th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Yeah, I totally agree with the lack of Holiday Spirit. Mostly I just want to beat shoppers with their own rolls of wrapping paper – could I be more scrooge?
That water park looks AWESOME!
December 12th, 2008 at 9:09 am
I know what you mean – I have not purchased one present. Whenever people say, are you excited for Christmas? I think, isn’t it too early??
Hopefully things will change soon!
December 12th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Yeeeaaah, Xmas hasn’t kicked in for me yet either. I still have a bunch of gifts to buy. The music is still annoying me. And it is pouring rain right now. Definitely not gonna help.
December 12th, 2008 at 11:10 am
We have a CoCoKey in the Chicago suburbs. I’ve never been but I’ve totally considered playing hooky to slide down some awesome water slides!
December 12th, 2008 at 11:40 am
It’s funny, I expected you to be one of those people who get all amped up for Xmas from the day after Thanksgiving, what with all the baking, cooking, Martha-ish decorating, etc.
But I’m with you on the wanting-it-to-still-be-summer. I’ll feel like this until May.
December 12th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
that park is more for kids i think? but there is a bar there for parents.. ive been once real quick with my godson i was there picking something up… The one in danvers…
December 12th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
im still not in the “holiday spirit” either. holiday spirit to me this year is like some kind of clinical psychological disorder.
hearing christmas music has done nothing but piss me off. i think im just going to be a grump this year. this is a first for me.
December 12th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I am still not ready for winter. But for once I’ve been in a Christmas-y mood since before Thanksgiving. Perhaps it’s because I was so anxious for the semester to be over that I was longing for anything that reminded me of what I have to look forward to.
Watch Love Actually because that always gets me excited for Christmas.
December 12th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
that indoor waterpark looks amazing! as for getting into some xmas spirit i recommend watching love actually or home alone, both always get me in the christmassy spirit.
December 13th, 2008 at 9:30 am
i’d wanted to go there forever, until 4289402 little kids got sick from the massive amount of chlorine they were using there last winter. if they have “adults night” i’ll go. but i don’t want to trip over dirty babies!
December 13th, 2008 at 10:41 am
that looks amazing!
i’m having a hard time feeling like christmas too, which is a huge bummer. but i’m slowly getting there. just go to the north end. so festive there!
December 13th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
I’ve been to an indoor water park before. And while it was cool, it just seemed… dirty?
December 15th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I was in the spirit before Thanksgiving this year! But, most years it takes me until like 3 days before Christmas to get excited about it. I’m sure it’ll hit you soon.
December 16th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
ill go with you! or, you come with us! my roommate has been trying to talk me into it for a few months. i just cant totally get down with wanting to bust into a little bikini right now…
also? not feeling very holiday-esque here either.
December 20th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I’m no feeling very Christmasy at all. I still haven’t done all of my shopping.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:48 am
I know what you mean!