Christmas is just like a second Thanksgiving, except it has red and green, gifts, and trees, instead of brown and orange, pumpkins, and turkeys. Both holidays are great for me because they involve copious amounts of food. Normally, I wouldn't complain about two feasts within the span of 4 weeks. However, now I feel like a couch potato. I understand why people make resolutions at this time of year. It's the after-gorging-on-food holiday shock.
I love buying gifts for people. Shopping is pretty fun in general, so having an excuse to go shopping (it's for my friend, I swear) just makes it so much better. I'm not really good at getting meaningful or deep gifts for people. I love giving creative/witty/inside joking gifts. Then they're practical and they bring back memories. And, really, that's what Christmas is all about, isn't it? Making and reliving memories.
Somehow, I don't think I'm that easy to buy gifts for. I don't really have any interests that allow people to give me little gifts relating to that activity. I mean, you could buy me a French horn, if you want, but I never expect that. Also, my birthday is two months after Christmas so I don't want to waste all of my good Christmas gift ideas and then have no ideas for my birthday.
I always like getting practical gifts because they're obviously something you're going to use: lotion, pens, food, money. It saves the awkward "Oh, hey I love this!" reaction where you really don't like it at all and you don't think you're ever going to use it. Though I like practical gifts, I have yet to find a good reaction for them, too. You can't really be too excited: "Shut up! It's exactly what I wanted! I can't believe you got me my favorite pretzels!" I mean, they're pretzels. Come on.
I do like Christmas. It's a great time to chill and hang out with family. We get to laugh together as we play board games and eat pie and open presents. Who wouldn't love that?
"I love buying gifts for people."
ReplyDeleteI expect on January 5 (in the form of donuts, of course)