Not into the festivities?

[katangel26]

Is there anyone else not feeling christmassy at all? I can't seem to get into it this year, doesn't feel like a week til christmas day!

Or is it like many friends have said, that I just don't feel in the spirit cos I've not wrapped any presents yet?

[havinmysay]

well im already for christmas but i agree i dont really feel christmassy i dont no what it is tho

[chaotica]

Ive played Jacob Marley and Santa cCaus this week and still dont feel christmassy! Had the works dinner today too and that didnt help!

[sophieb]

I'm not really in the festive spirit yet either! Everything is done and i'm all organised but i'm not really excited yet. The kids are getting a bit hyper though-school carol concert tomorrow and disco the day after! Might feel more like it when I finish work on friday!

[ummmm]

It just doesn't feel like Christmas at all this year...I'm not a big Christmas fan but I can't get into it at all this year for some reason

[anti666]

same here dont feel like christmas at all

[Buenchico]

I'm probably just getting old and cynical (or maybe it's just that I've always been cynical anyway?) but I generally work on the principle that the less I get into the spirit of Christmas beforehand, the less I'll be disappointed when it actually comes!

Perhaps, we should cheer each other up, Kat ;-) I only live just down the road from you. (You've previously mentioned that you're in Ipswich). The sad, boring, lonely old fart, supping Brewer's Gold (and doing a passable impression of Scrooge), in the darkest recesses of the Dove Street Inn on Friday evening will probably be me ;-)

Merry Christmas!

Chris

[Annlinda]

Glad I'm not the only one not feeling Christmassy. Could it be all the gloom and doom in the news with all those awful murders the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the
general misery in this country getting us all down. Hands up those who haven't got a cold!
And to cap it all got a family funeral this morning

[redcrx]

Can understand why anyone in ipswich may not be full of xmas spirit with all thats going on there.
Im in suffolk too and its only just starting to feel Christmassy here due to the sudden change in the weather, Its freezing and outside is all white and frosty.
I wrapped my pressies last night, well most of them as i ran out of selotape and now I feel like Christmas is almost here. The big food shopping trips on Wednesday and Saturday will finally bring it home that in less than a week I'll have eaten to much and be exhausted from travelling to all the relatives.

[what..the?]

i'm a big christmas fan but i'm not into it either. i have had a difficult year with a death in the family, a family argument and pet deaths and now another pet on it last legs, were always working, when we finish work maybe it will start.

[niki2002]

I am a massive xmas fan, and until this morning wasnt feeling christmassy either. Basically I have had a really s*** year. Lost a very close family member and another two have been diagnosed with serious illnesses.

I think one reason why people dont feel a xmassy as in years gone by is that it is just too warm to be coming up to xmas.

Anyway, This morning I woke up and on the radio was Elton John's step into Xmas and then I looked out of the window and everything was completely white with frost. It looked so beautiful. I instantly felt xmassy. So i got into work booked up to go outdoor ice skating at the weekend and now I feel really excited.

So I recommend you all wake up tomorrow morning, stick on your favourite xmas song - one that'll make you wanna get up and dance (Something like Elton John, Shakin Stevens or Wizzard), look out the window and realise WOW... it is nearly xmas.

No matter how bad your year has been see xmas as a way of saying things can and will get better. (SORRY!! DIDNT MEAN THAT TO SOUND TO CHEESY!!)

And Most of all....

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

[eash]

I'm not in the Christmas mood/spirit at all either. :-( It's too much stress and hassle. And so hyped up.
I'd much rather show my appreciation during the year to people than all at one go at one time.

[SteveSxx]

We need snow

[Barmaid]

I can't get into it this year. Put no decorations up, done no shopping yet and am about to try and catch the last post for the cards I have been trying to do since 1 December! I am turning into a grumpy old woman and feel decidely unfestive. Just popping into the newsagents in town for a newspaper and a sarnie for lunch is like going into battle. Perhaps us grumpy old b****ers should all meet at the Dove Street Inn and be grumpy together!!

[katangel26]

Buenchico, maybe we should :) at least I know that your not easily missed given your decsription lol. Maybe SteveSxx is right we need snow and the consistant bad, horrible whether thats associated with xmas. It still feels like September or November to me!

[WendyS]

The tree is up, the cards have been sent and have been to two carol concerts but it still seems flat. Guess it's because two of the most special people in my life, my parents, are no longer alive and somehow Christmas without them just doesn't seem the same. So make the most of your family while you've still got them around, even if it means making compromises over what you want to do over Christmas. And perhaps we'd all feel a little more cheerful if we could open our morning papers and read a few items of good news for a change, instead of all the gloom, doom, death and political corruption that seems to surround us.

[[eLz]]

its through the whole generation. im 14 (still at school) and my mates also didn't feel christmasy, It was our second to last day today until we break up for the holidays and everybody is loving it now and can't wait. we had music played through near all of our lessons and last period we had a "school christmas production" which realy made me feel christmasy. so i would advise just have fun during the last few days of work with ur coleagues(?) (sorry bad spelling) and just realy have a laugh because thats what people should enjoy about christmas is being around friends and family, having fun and totaly geting wasted at a mates party which im doin this wednesday :P

Merry Christmas.

[fruitsalad]

could just be that it comes around far to quickly.

[bendygirl]

Pt 1, you�re so right WendyS.
Christmas is a bitter sweet time, I�m lucky as my parents and grandparents are a happy lot; my little brother is 7 he is really a fantastic brother (he helps with most of my posts on AB). There is one person I will miss and that�s my Gran she passed away when I was 15, she was my rock she helped me though the hardest time in my life. I couldn�t read or write I done my best to hide it as I was ashamed the only person who knew is my best friend Becky. I got to the age of 10 before anybody realized how bad I was. I had extra lessons to help me but it was impossible the letters would go from black to white some looked back to front and crammed in one teacher said I was on another planet .I was at my grans one Sunday afternoon when we were alone, she asked me to read a letter for her, when she realized what was wrong my gran spent a lot of her time trying to teach me she used colored paper so it was not so glary and with a lot of patience I started to learn to read and write, as they say the rest is history. I know my spelling is very bad and my grammar non existent as you can tell by reading my posts. This is the only time I have used a spell checker and a lot of help from my friend Becky. I no longer hide my reading and writing problems! I will improve I am improving; I have my bad days when my writing is a real struggle. My gran was the kindest nicest person you could have ever met; I wish I could just reach out and cuddle her, she is especially in my thoughts at Christmas. The one thing I have learnt is that life is short we have no idea how short the lives of the people we know and love could be, that�s why I always ignore and never respond to nasty remarks. as people get to know me they soon find its pointless in trying to hurt me as I just move on. I have a friend who has fallen out with her family she is coming to our house for Christmas if only she and her family would not be so stubborn

[bendygirl]

Pt2
To think she may never see her mum or dad again, if something happened to them. Her gran is in her late 70s so that is a real possibility.
I love Christmas time but I think it brings a lot of sadness as well as joy to the surface it�s also a chance to make contact to renew broken friendships, as John Lennon said �war is over if you want it�
WendyS I hope you have a happy Christmas.
Bendygirl xxx

[stick28]

Me just been to the airport to pick up my nephew who lives in LA and he says to me, "I can't believe i've come home to this kind of weather, look at this fog" to which I replied, yes buddy, but this IS your home and this is where most of your family are from and where you are from!!!. Xmas is only about one thing, FAMILY. treasure them please.