Bah, Humbug!

I was just checking my feeds (which I hadn’t done since the weekend) and I stumbled across Hessie’s post about her lack of Christmas spirit.  The thing I noted about it was I have been suffering through a similar dilemma.

My day job, Left Right Minds, is doing incredibly well.  We have a very cool client base, have a lot of interesting projects we’re building for next year, but we’re so busy that this holiday season I am suffering from too much of a good thing.  I have been having issues getting into the spirit of the holidays because we will barely have one.  Normally, we get a couple of slow weeks with a bit of time to visit friends and family and recharge.

This season…not so much.

Yet, it may be what we are doing this year.  Since we moved to Vancouver in 2001, we’ve been practicing the delicate art of “alternating” between families.  One year we visit Victoria with Regina the next.  Rinse and repeat. 

Some time this summer, we already knew we were booked up until the end of the year and we had to make a decision – would we have time to head off and enjoy it?  The answer?  We invited our families to come and visit us instead.  Initially, we believed they would turn us down.  But, as fate would have it, they agreed.  This year, they are coming to see us.  I am thrilled and it should be fun!

But, still, I can’t help but force myself into having some Christmas cheer.  Maybe with the families here, it will finally hit me.

 

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December 20th, 2007

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Shane Birley is a blogger, huge geeky nerd, web developer, poet, and creative writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a partner at Left Right Minds, a web development, arts management, business blogging and on line marketing company.

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