I love the Holidays. I am a total Christmas Dork. But I sometimes get so caught up in the stress of it all that I forget that it's not a neccessary thing, and I actually do all of this stuff because I love it and not because I have to do it. Though a friend of mine and I are in a debate as to whether or not plagues will be visited upon the world if I do not bake 20 dozen Christmas cookies by December 15th. I haven't baked any yet and we did just have a 'blizzard' this past weekend in NYC...

But I do love it. I love Christmas shopping in 'blizzard' conditions. I love doing 100+ Christmas cards and listening to Christmas CDs and spending way too much money on way too many Christmas gifts and baking all kinds of holiday cookies that I hardly eat myself and so on and so forth. It's fun. I love wearing santa hats and geeky jingle bell earrings. But then I start making to do lists and consulting my Christmas03.xls spreadsheet and start thinking of all the things I want to do as things I have to do and then I get stressed and want to go sit on my couch and eat Cheetos while watching hours of Charlie's Angels episodes. It's silly.

So, I'm typing this to remind myself that I like doing this and if I stop liking it, I can stop doing it. Yes. Okay. Doing better now.

Back to the Christmas Cards.