Published on 12, July, 2020
"It's the most horrible time of the year" I sing this every year. Lol. Christmas is the worst. A horrible nightmare that lasts too long and gets too much hype.
I saw in a shop today they're already selling Christmas sweets, calendars and I saw an advert on TV and it's not even been Halloween yet! But it begs the question...
What are you doing this Christmas?
Undoubtedly I'll have family over. The lights will be too bright. I'll be forced to socialise. And I'll have to go to the Christmas work party. December is a long old month. I hate it. Please someone shoot me with a sleeping dart and let me sleep through it.
The C word has always been one of my most challenging times of the year, it’s not the actual day, I can mask that. It’s the two months of adverts on tv and radio, the Supermarket has the cheerful music on loop, there is no escape!
That's the problem isn't it? There's no escaping it because it starts before Christmas even happens. If it was just a day or two I could cope but it's months of noise and packed shops.
I do most Christmas shopping now on the internet, food shopping I still like to personally do myself. Most supermarkets now open 24/7, I've found shopping late at night much easier, normally the horrible music has been turned off as even the staff have had enough. I still listen to Ken Bruce on the radio, he won’t play any Christmas music until the 1st of December. Christmas Day I normally do all the cooking, the kitchen is my escape room, “sorry would love to chat but I have all this cooking to do!”
Shopping in person is hard enough and always risks meltdowns, but shopping during the Christmas period is a guaranteed meltdown so I always aim to do my shopping online. Sometimes I get dragged in town with my parents but I try to stay home and avoid the crowds.