Jazz the Ginger;`*

The stores are filled with happy shoppers…. the streets are strung with festive lights… and the houses are beginning to look like Christmas – well, sort of.  The holiday season is less than a month away, and we still have no snow, but for some people, that’s not enough to let their holiday spirit fade.
Me on the other hand, I need the snow!!  It really doesn’t feel like Christmas to me; a few people I know have already put up their Christmas tree, but my house is still bare.  We don’t even have our Christmas lights up yet… but in our defense, the set of Christmas lights we had up last year… had been up since we bought our house when I was 10.  We did buy new lights this past weekend during our “Black Friday” shopping… and hopefully they’ll get put up this coming weekend, but still, it won’t feel like Christmas.

I realize there is still just over 3 weeks of work left before Christmas arrives… but at the same time… that’s only 3 weeks!  I’m almost done my Christmas shopping, but still it doesn’t even feel like its December.  This year has flown by and it feels like everything has just been a huge blur.  I’ve done many things this year that I likely wouldn’t have normally done, which I can thank to my dear Jay, but at the same time, I can’t remember most of it.  It’s weird how as we grow up time seems to fly by, but when we’re younger, time just inches by; even though you want time to fly as fast as it can… it doesn’t seem to budge.  Now it just feels like I don’t have time to do anything.  It’s a good thing and a bad thing; good in the way that I love keeping busy, but bad in the way that I might forget something along the way.  But I guess that’s a part of this life learning objective we all have.  But back to my original point, it’s hard to believe that in a month it’ll be 2010.  And, I’ll be 22.  Eeek. Ha-ha, just kidding, I’m not worried about turning 22, but we’ll talk again when I’m 30… And then I’ll be sad. 

But still, the mission remains: when will the spirit of Christmas shine through?  It could be on the first snowfall… it could be Christmas eve with family all around… it could be during the Christmas feast… or, it could be that Christmas night’s sleep.  When the exhaustion hits, and I’m falling asleep in the arms of my one and only.  Hmm… That sounds good; I think I’ll go with the last option.

Jazz xo.