“Doesn’t Even Feel Like Christmas”

I almost crashed the car the other day as I tried to change the channel when “White Christmas” came on.

I am NOT a fan of Christmas songs…

…at all!

And life has been weird for a long while. Back when I worked in the construction crews during college the entire occupation shut down in November.

We would have to do training in the winter months, but there wasn’t a lot going on.

It doesn’t slow down at all anymore. There are a lot of jobs just getting started now.

So, it’s bound to happen:

“It doesn’t even feel like Christmas,” is something I hear a lot from guys out there.

That’s truly the deal around here right now.

We don’t even have a tree up…

…are kicking around doing a table top one.

Kathy’s injury isn’t the problem.

It’s all about taking bets on which pet will knock it over each day. 

The dog with dementia?

The puppy?

The cat with anger management issues?

It’ll be a mess!

And presents???

The present getter isn’t getting any for us.

“What do you want from Santa?” I asked each of the kids.

“Tell him to go to the ATM,” was the only answer I got.

Therefore, it feels less like Christmas than any other time in my life.

The raging pandemic is also making it less than attractive to head out and hang with a lot of people…

…and it isn’t blind fear.

A work acquaintance lost his wife of 35 years last week. She died of Covid just 5 days after the positive test.

She was only 57.

She was vaccinated and had a booster. She was also battling (and beating) non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.

Five days.

We will certainly celebrate Christmas and will have some big laughs.

But no.

It doesn’t feel much like Christmas yet…

…and we’re running out of time to get into the spirit.

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