Christmas Hangover

We (Erik) finally put away all of Christmas except a Pointsetta plant which I am convinced the cats will eat and both die. I thought I was done with Christmas but last night found myself looking on eBay at vintage Christmas ornaments. Like these enchanting Japanese made house ornaments. Wouldn’t it be cool to make a whole kooky house village- with tiny lights inside!!

This year I was very very fixated on Christmas. I literally watched “A Christmas Carol” with Jim Carrey every night to fall asleep. I think I really identify with Scrooge for some reason. I tried to find ornaments or even action figures from this movie – the only thing I could find from this movies was a Slurpee cup. I love Slurpees but…

I started to become obsessed with candy canes. I wanted to taste, smell, see Christmas at all times. Obviously, this is some sort of desire to connect with my inner child. Whatever. I was telling my therapist that it feels like the whole country loses it’s mind for a month- literally becomes psychotic. Shrines to a a creepy old man dressed in red all over the place, going to stores in the middle of the night, buying random crap and having clinical anxiety over whether Mom will like the butter dish you got for her. I love that everyone is focused on some unattainable perfect gift- perfect day that will never be as perfect as we have in our head. Christmas will never live up to the Norman Rockwell fantasy that we want and we are all ultimately dissapointed no matter how wonderful the real day is. A peppermint melancholy hangover that starts the day after Christmas.

I found this site Diamonds of the Sea that has really fun gay Merman ornaments. I would like every single one of them and I would like to put them on a pink Christmas tree.