I have a few hypotheses on what the reasons are for this lack of holiday spirit:
- Captain Obvious says: I am in a new place, and not really settled into the area or a home. We don't have a Christmas tree up because we are moving two weeks before Christmas...and all of our holiday decorations are in storage.
- Seattle weather: The temperatures here are sort of throwing me off. I am not complaining about missing below zero windchills and lots of snow (or am I?), but it is disconcerting that the daytime temp has hovered around 45-50 degrees and the nighttime temp is around 35-40 degrees. I wear my "transitional" winter coat here...if I come back to MN any time soon, I think I might be in for a rude awakening!
- We haven't really met a lot of people here, so we haven't been going to any Christmas parties or events.
- No annual Hensch Holiday Bash :( When we move back to Minnesota, we are DEFINITELY reinstating that. The 6th annual Hensch Holiday Bash might be held in 2013, but we'll just asterisk the 6th and say we missed 5 years or something.
- Lack of presents, for a few reasons: until we move to Kent, we don't have a mailing address; buying stuff online means I have to ship it to my work and carry it home on the bus (Trav's Blu-ray player is sitting at work now because I don't want to just carry it on the bus); Travis can't buy me anything online because he has nowhere to send it; we are trying to conserve cash to close on our house; etc ad nauseum
That's probably enough reasons. At least we will be in the house this week, and we are going to make a point to go look at Christmas lights around town soon and visit the cool display of holiday cheer that I spotted downtown last week. Plus I have a great plan for Christmas Day, seeing if we can start a new tradition: sleep in (I am singing at Midnight Mass the night before), call Mom and Dad's to wish the family a Merry Christmas and have them play me some John Denver, make a delicious breakfast of my blueberry waffles, pepper bacon, potatoes O'Brien and scrambled eggs (sunny side up eggs for Travis), then open presents and set up the new electronic equipment, watch a movie (hopefully Dark Knight) and then have a pot roast dinner (made in the Crock-Pot). Seems like a solid plan to me - what do you think? Want to come over? :)
I think this Christmas will just be very different from what we are used to, so I think it could be tough. I guess we will learn from this year what things we want to keep for next year, and what stuff we have to add in (like a tree!)
-SKH
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We're making our own thing out of Christmas. Going to Vegas for five days. Bringing my mom with. Going to see various shows and have some good food. It definitely helps when dealing with the fact that most of my friends are in a different city.
I'm sorry to hear that you are feeling a bit blue this Christmas. You are missed here too.
I know how you feel. Our first year here was like that. We'd gotten married a couple weeks earlier so our families had just traveled to the wedding and didn't want to travel again, and we'd just gotten back from our honeymoon a week earlier so we weren't go to travel to see them. And we didn't know anyone (I hadn't even met you yet!) to go to Christmas parties and we missed my work Christmas party while we were away. So it was all pretty lonely and un-festive. It definitely gets better! Even the 2nd year was LOTS better than the first.
I'm looking forward to your 2013 Hensch Holiday Bash! :-D
Thanks, Luna!
Hang in there, kiddo.
Whenever I move to a new place, I start a new holiday tradition. Why don't you guys start dreaming about starting something new? Something you can only do in Seattle? Just a thought from someone who has moved a LOT! My current holiday tradition is hot chocolate at the Holidazzle parade.
Hava
Christmas Cheer no doubt. Life sucks... and then you die. I'm just waiting for that at this point. No christmas in MN either... my mom continues to say "the economy is bad, and people are loosing thier jobs" - as if i didnt know that. My christmas present total: one. Hancock on DVD. At least its a good one! ... merry fuckin christmas. the only thing i have to look forward to apparently isnt until 2012. sad. sad.
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