"There is no time for this", said the Queen of wasting time.

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

- Emily Dickinson.

Life gets so hectic and crazy around Christmas, I get so caught up in the hype. I stop taking notice of what I'm doing and what I'm buying, because i put it all down to 'the holiday season'. and before you know it, I've attended a thousand Christmas parties and spent record amounts of money, on gifts and alcohol. I'm prone to exaggeration, I've attended one Christmas party so far, and received and gave gifts and we drank and we were merry. I love Christmas though, Christmas lights, Christmas songs, oh except those terrible pop stars that try and remix classic carols and make a quick buck. Those songs make me want to call myself scrooge and scream bah humbug. Look at me and my totally erratic thoughts, what I was meant to be getting at is that I forget that life doesn't stop for Christmas. Here I am thinking everyone gets a whole bunch of time off at Christmas to spend time with their Family and loved ones, to give gifts and drink and be merry. But this isn't the case for everyone. Not everyone gets time off or has family or can afford to give gifts. I hate that I can forget this, because it means I'm ungrateful. I'm trying to keep my perspective that I recently found, and keep being grateful for how lucky I truly am.

I'll eat you up, I love you so.
(Where the Wild things are.)

Peace and Love
xxxx