By Tatiauna Miller

Thank goodness Christmas is over! Every year I have to force myself to be in the “Christmas Spirit”. I’m not a scrooge but I just don’t have any extra joy on the holidays. There are many parts of the Christmas I enjoy; I know all the Christmas carols, I tear up some cookies, I love the decorations and the stories but I just can’t stand the people around Christmas. How can you be a dick to me all year around and a few days in December you decided to be nice just because it’s Christmas, that’s some bullshit. I’m nice all year around don’t expect some extra niceties from me on Christmas.

Things I don’t do during Christmas: I don’t send out Christmas cards except to my grandparents. How are people going to send you a card to say Merry Christmas even though you haven’t picked up the phone to say “Hello” to this person all year round? Please don’t kill the environment on behalf of me, send that family photo to someone else like the dentist, your realtor, I’m sure you see them people more than me. I also don’t give adults Christmas gifts, I give all year around. If I see something that my friends and family will like and I can afford, I’ll pick it up for them because that’s what people do for their loved ones. By the time Christmas comes around, I’ve already given you something you may need so the only thing left to give you is just a “Junk” present. I don’t like giving gifts with no use; just giving a gift to check a name off the list. I most definitely won’t be venturing into the shopping madness just for no junk gift either, if I really want to get you something it will be after Jan 1st when everything’s on sale.

I used to not decorate for Christmas but now that I have a child; it’s one of my mom duties. My daughter says we must decorate the house for each holiday, yeah right! She said “We” so we started decorating about 30 minutes in she announced she was bored, but this was also after she put all the ornaments on one side of the Christmas tree. My daughter also wanted to bake Christmas cookies and tapped out halfway frosting the first Gingerbread Man. I doubt she’ll bug me too much next year. I also won’t eat the random Christmas cookie offerings in the office kitchen. I don’t know who made those cookies, or if their dirty child or creepy cat helped mix the batter. No Thanks!

I laugh at the New Year’s resolutions. Why must you force this big change on Jan 1st, you know the probability of keeping that dramatic resolution won’t stick! Best way for change to stick is to start small, you see more rewards and more progress. Start with a small attainable goal and once you’ve reached that one go to the next and so on. We should set ourselves up for success and not failure. I always laugh when people say, I’m not gonna deal with the drama in 2018! What’s wrong with today? Is it not momentous enough for you to just say “Today’s Thursday and I’m not dealing with his shit no more!” Just saying that feels great and I don’t even have any of his shit to deal with.

I roll my eyes when people are talking about giving during the holidays, I don’t get why we can’t give to the less fortunate all year around? You don’t think those people are in need all year around too? I feel like people wait for society, commercials and churches to tell them when to give. We should constantly be giving. People don’t need to have an overabundance of stuff whether its food, clothing and toys, we should be giving to those in need as often as possible regardless of their situation.

Thanks for giving me your time! Have a beautiful day, laugh more, live more and give more!

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