Asha Anujeeva

The best thing I can say about my Christmas is that it was quiet. There was no drama, thank goodness.

I talked with, texted, or IM’d a variety of family members and friends and have been wished Merry Christmas so many times that I’ve lost count. But I appreciate the sincere wishes from everyone. That was nice.

We had a nice dinner of roast chicken and stuffing. I didn’t want to fuss with a turkey and have a lot of leftovers. I don’t like to waste food and a plumb chicken roaster was plenty of food.

If you celebrate Christmas for religious reasons is one thing, but if all you want to do is get presents from people and knuckle under to the crass commericalism of the end of the year retailers trying to stuff everything they couldn’t get rid of all year long, do you really deserve the wishes from everyone to have a merry Christmas? I think not. So I encourage you to re-evaluate your personal choices over this holiday season and if you haven’t been to church in a long time maybe now is a good time to start going again.

We bought our Christmas tree from the Boy Scouts in a local shopping mall parking lot.  I try to support organizations like that whenever I can.  It was rather expensive, though, so I’m not sure if I’ll do that again next year or not.  I’m thinking about going with an artificial tree in the future, partly because of the cost, and partly because watering a live one, and having to haul it from the tree lot to the house and then disposing of it later is a real hassle!  But that is food for thought for next year.  We have our tree up and decorated; all except for the tinsel.  We’re debating whether or not to tinsel this year.  It is a time consuming process, and it is messy.  So we might not bother with it this year.  The tree is really pretty as it is.

Well, I guess I’m glad that I was still too ill with my cold to go shopping on Black Friday.  Watching the news about how crazy some of the shoppers got, and that poor man who was trampled to death in a New York Wal-Mart because the crowd got too frenzied just totally freaked me out!  I’ve got most of my shopping done anyway, and I plan to do most of the rest of it online.  I try to do as much as I can with local merchants, but there really are a few things that they just don’t seem to carry!  I’ve already done my local shopping, now it’s time for Cyber-shopping!