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Christmas spirit
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By:
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harveypdowd
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Mood:
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Lonely
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Date:
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Nov 22, 2012
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Music:
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watchin TV
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I've always liked the holidays. I love this whole time of year. (not New Years, I hate New years eve with a bloody passion). The weather changes, all the decorations and TV specials. How many times do I need to hear Yukon Cornelius talk about silver and gold? I still watch, every year. I watch just about every version of "A Christmas Carol" and I still don't know what the hell is wrong with Tiny Tim!
Most of all I love the lights. I get the biggest kick out of Christimas lights. I used to drive through random neighborhoods just to see the different houses all lit up. I think that is what I always liked about Vegas, all that neon.(I've been to Vegas a ton of times and never gambled a dime) For many years though I've not had any kind of "Christmas" spirit. The holidays more or less came and went. The last many years I've spent Thanksgiving/Christmas alone. Even the last couple years of my marriage I spent them alone. They just kind of come and go. I hate that. I don't want it to be like that. It's not a spiritual fulfillment that I'm looking to regain. It's not a bunch of gifts. It's just this good feeling I used to get. I loved those little everyday things. The lights, the crisp, cold evening, hot chocolate, Christmas trees, the walks I used to take around my old neighborhood where I grew up. I can remember when I used to take those walks there would be a house that had maybe one string of lights in a lone window. It would be dark, quiet and peaceful. Something about that one string of lights just sticks with me.
They couldn't do some elaborate display that lit up the entire block but it didn't matter. That one string of lights showed spirit. To me anyway.
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