The northlondonhippy

Archive for December 21st, 2008

Its only a few more days till xmas and you can feel things grad­u­ally wind­ing down. The schools are clos­ing, mil­lions of peo­ple are trav­el­ling and the shops are try­ing to shift their last bits of tat.

I’m wind­ing down too, though not quite in the same way. I’m work­ing all week, straight through until Box­ing Day morn­ing. Somebody’s got to!

There are loads of peo­ple who have to work over xmas, even in the west­ern, Chris­t­ian world. Spare a thought for us when your tuck­ing into your turkey and curs­ing your relatives.

No nos­tal­gic trips down mem­ory lane for me this year, I’m just going to grit my teeth and get through it as quickly and unevent­fully as pos­si­ble. I’m off for the New Year though, which is a good thing because I do like to party more than I like to eat turkey.

To say my hol­i­day will be low-key would be an under­state­ment. Aside from work­ing, I’m ready to hun­ker down. I’ve got all my sup­plies in or com­ing, thanks to an Ocado deliv­ery on Mon­day, my lim­ited amount of xmas shop­ping is com­plete and I am ready to draw the cur­tains, lock the door and not do any­thing for around a week.

I’m mak­ing it sound a lot bleaker than it really is. I chose to spend my hol­i­days this way.

I hope you’ve had the good for­tune to choose how you’re spend­ing your hol­i­days too. If you’re lucky, you will be sur­rounded by fam­ily that you don’t hate or maybe even like just a lit­tle bit.

Just because I’m not cel­e­brat­ing xmas, doesn’t mean I don’t remem­ber what they’re like!

Wher­ever you are and what­ever you find your­self doing, I want to bid you all the hap­pi­est of hol­i­days. I hope all your wishes and dreams come true!