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I was going to post about how depressed the Christmas season is making me (poor as a church mouse with neither time to knit nor money to buy things for people) but then the news of the oil spill on the Delaware River distracted me. Gina and I are going to try and find out if we can volunteer to help in the clean-up.

That has to wait until the morning, though. It's too late now. So back to my holiday blues:

I don't know how to make this Christmas meaningful. I'd had no idea I was so obsessed with baubles and trinkets and frippery and frappery. Are gifting and sweets-eating the only parts of Christmas? Can we do away with them? Can I? Last year I had no money, but I had all this yarn and Kool-Aid, and all this time on my hands, and everyone got something handmade. Now I'm working full-time and graduating college and having financial disasters and I don't know how to make Christmas fun when all I feel is guilty that I'm not planning people's gifts. That's so dumb.

Let's compile a list of Christmas Specials that stress the whole Christmas-isn't-about-the-presents motif. I think I need to watch them all.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:33 PM | shower me with attention