Advent calendar's bought and opened...check. Christmas lights on in town...check. School Carol Concert...check. It's impossible to avoid the first flakes of christmas falling like the snow around us, ready to engulf us in a flurry of merriment. I love Christmas and have been counting days since somewhere around the 55 mark. However I failed to realise, and it saddens me to say, that Christmas has become somewhat of a deadline this year.
Although on 25th December I will dive head-first into celebrating, the last week at school is littered with deadlines. Not to mention attempting to start revision for nasty january exams, playing piano in a Christmas Concert and ensuring that my friends and family have some semblance of a gift to open from me.
Christmas time is precious - what I mean by that is everything, ever, apparently must be finished by Christmas. Combine that with the smattering of celebrations that eat up time faster than you can munch a mince pie, it looks as if I'll be working in overdrive to get everything done. For fear of sounding negative let me reiterate that I love Christmas and all its related traditional meals, shopping deals and surprises. I'm not so keen on the rush to finish everything off in time for a day of eating, present-opening and eating some more. How did a religious celebration become a deadline?
You can probably tell from the lack of recent posts on my blog that I have been trapped under the snowdrift that literally and metaphorically kept me housebound for 3 days. Not only could I not open any of the external doors at home, I had so much work to do there was no point in even trying. The heaps of essays, notes and reading that have kept me buried in my house were just about melting when a fresh blizzard came my way, hitting me like a wall of A-level stress.
I guess I'm writing this in the hope that I am not the only one feeling the manic, panic leading up to the Holidays, often associated with the get-everything-done-now-so-that-I-can-relax-at-christmas plan. Am I really the only one with too much to do that I can't think about it all at once without melting my brain? Please let me know if you're in the same boat as me? If you're the one whizzing past in the speedboat of no deadlines, enjoy the ride, and keep bragging to a minimum please...
Whether you're carolling or cooking, relaxing or revising, Christmas will be a busy one this year. Whatever you do, make sure that come the 25th December you eat far too much and do absolutely nothing useful at all.
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