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'tis the season
Today is the 6th day of the 48th week, the 2nd day of the 12th month, the 337th day of 2016, and:
- Business of Popping Corn Day – apparently this is a thing to do these days
- Faux Fur Friday
- International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
- International Sweater Vestival – wear a sweater vest to work
- National Fritters Day
- National Mutt Day
- National Salesperson Day
- Play Basketball Day
- Safety Razor Day
- Special Education Day
ON THIS DAY: In 1409 the University of Leipzig opened. In 1697 St Paul's Cathedral was consecrated in London. In 1763 the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island was dedicated, the first synagogue in what will become the US. In 1982, at the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
When do you decorate for Christmas?
Back in the day, when we were using a fresh tree, the tree went up the weekend before the day and came down the weekend after New Year. Nowadays it appears that most of us use artificial trees for one reason or another [convenience, allergies, fire codes] and we can put it up anytime and leave it up as long as we want to. I have heard from those who have their trees and decorations up already, celebrating the first Sunday of Advent by putting up lights. The lighting of the Rockefeller Center and the National Christmas trees, and the Baltimore Washington Monument, have already taken place and after all, we only have three weeks to enjoy the colors and sparkles.
There are degrees of decorating as well. Grandmom Hughes used to have things in every room and the overall impression was always very festive – but then again, she got a lot of company during the season. Perhaps the fact that I am only decorating for myself alone has impacted me – it has only been in the past couple of years that I have had the heart to put up anything – and many times that is after the anniversary of Frank’s demise. I do have a tiny tree that my daughter got me at a craft show, and a door decoration that doesn’t light anymore. When I do decorate? I don’t festoon this apartment with garlands, I haven’t unboxed the ceramic village that Frank painted since he died, and the main focus is the pile of wrapped presents under the tree that gets delivered on Christmas morning. Do you make yourself decorate on the theory that having the things around you will promote getting into the spirit?
This year I am dragging myself into December, focused on the EOM reconciliations and reporting, still trying to break the habit of reading the news about politics. Of course I am always a bit moody as the 16th approaches – maybe I should ask bossman if I can decorate my cubicle at work….
Now that would be interesting, wouldn’t it?
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