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Old 01-01-2017, 19:56
1manonthebog
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Back to reality today with a thump. Thats it all over. Back to work this week after two weeks off
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Old 01-01-2017, 20:58
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Nope. Even as a kid, where I dreaded having to go back to school and the dreary slog that was the first couple of months of the year, there's always been something nice about finishing up the festive season and starting the year.

I suppose It helps that when I was a child, I looked at Christmas and New Year as the last events on a three month chain of events - October holidays, my birthday, Halloween, bonfire night and then Christmas and New Year. I think because of this, I never really had the long build-up/wait that others seem to do for just two single days - I viewed the whole three months as one long festive season, and it all felt "done" by the time January rolled around.

It's even more the case now that I have my own family with a whole slew of Birthdays in December, October, November and December. My wife's family tends to do quite nice family birthday's - it's like there's a family celebration ever two weeks starting at the end of September. It's sort of nice for it all to end and catch my breath before Carnival rolls around in February, followed by Easter, and then Spring/Summer seems to have gone as soon as it has started before it's Federwesien season once again....
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Old 02-01-2017, 18:33
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Just about hanging on to the last remnants of Christmas here!

I was going to take the decorations down today but I didn't get home till late afternoon.

So as I'm off tomorrow I have my feet up with the Christmas lights twinkling away,have a small whiskey in one hand and a box of Roses close by the other!

One last night can't do any harm!
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Old 02-01-2017, 20:16
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Nope. Just relief that it's all over for another year.
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Old Yesterday, 16:29
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No I'm glad when the whole Xmas and New Year period is over. It goes on for far too long with far too many people off work and then they are in slow mode in the first week they go back to work too. I think companies need to cut down the amount of time they give off to people after the 27th December. Some people are paid to have the first week of January off too, it goes too far.
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Old Yesterday, 16:31
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Yes. But not because of all the presents and the family rigmarole. I do suffer from a bit of the SAD's at this time of year and its nice to see houses etc brightly decorated with lights on trees twinkling etc.
Its a little sad when you're on your way home and looking out of the car window or walking past, you see fewer and fewer houses with their decorations up looking all lively and warm, until eventually everyone's are down and everything goes back to looking plain and normal and all you've got stretching ahead of you are the cold, dark, nights of the bleak winter.

Its gloomy from November through to March (dark nights, it's a lot colder, trees have lost their leaves leaving everything looking stark and harsh) so Christmas is a nice, bright temporary bridge in the middle of that but we now get the three months that I hate most, culminating in March, the month I detest with a passion because it's always been a nasty, disastrous month for me.
Something bad always happens to me during March - with a couple of years exceptions I can go back to 2003 to find the same pattern.


So yeah, I'm sad when its finished and we have the rest of the Winter ahead unadorned with any real brightness, either natural or artificial. And each year its getting harder and harder for me to get through them.
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Old Yesterday, 16:55
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It funny that I didn't feel anything when I was taking down the decorations at home but was quite sad when I put them away at work today. I found myself humming a christmas song as I was doing it and remembering what it was like the week before we broke up.

That's my Christmas now really: the team xmas lunch, secret santa, listening to songs in the office, xmas raffle, all talking about what we're doing for Christmas and who we have left to buy for. I actually spend most of the holiday period alone
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Old Yesterday, 17:00
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I had the tree in the window and that and other decorations in the window set on a timer to go on at 6pm. So getting home the place looked really Christmassy and inviting

Getting home yesterday evening & seeing a darkened front room seemed sad.

Just sitting of an evening with no lights on but the tree, reading the Kindle seemed the very essence of Christmas, more than anything else and I miss that
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