Why Can't Everyday Be Christmas

Well aside from it being completely too expensive, Christmas decorations lose their sense of magic after New Years Eve.

I was talking to a friend today. She was saying that she almost has everything done for Christmas--she has just a little more shopping to do and she also has to find an outfit for Christmas Eve dinner. I am so glad that all I have to do is change the color of my tie and then my outfit looks entirely new. I'm so glad that I don't have to worry about co-ordinating my shoes to match my tie, belt or shirt color. I'm so glad that whoever set the standard for guys said black or brown for shoes. And I'm so glad that our hair doesn't have to be perfect. But I digress.

Anyway, I was thinking that after the holidays, this feeling of joy and cheer disappear too. I don't feel an overwhelming sense of gladness or tiding towards others once January really sets in. Looking back over the years, I have never really kept a resolution either. Of course my resolutions have been pretty easy ones to make: "quit smoking" (which I did, but it wasn't because of the resolution, I quit because while I was at a Kaplan medical review, I got the flu and cigarettes didn't taste so good--and then I just didn't pick it back up), "start exercising", "eat better" all those things that we make as resolutions, but somehow quit after January 3rd.

Maybe this year, I'll work on keeping a resolution and keeping that good cheer feeling going.