It's time for Only The Good Friday, but as my internet service is spotty at best today, I'm going to have to keep this one short.
So, short and sweet, here's the good:
Christmas was amazing, wonderful and beautiful. I am so blessed with the family and friends I have. I hope you all had a Christmas as blessed as mine was.
Now I sit at work, with our systems all out of wack, unable to actually do any work, and wishing I was home instead. Or out shopping the post Christmas sales. And yet, I'm smiling. Because this is exactly what the holidays are all about, the feeling of joy I've been filled with all week.
I'm not ready yet to let it go either, so tonight I'm heading out for a dinner celebration with a group of friends, and tomorrow I have breakfast plans with one friend and dinner plans with another.
Folks, here's my "GOOD" for today, a piece of what I think is good advice. Whatever it is you are doing this weekend, after the craziness of "Christmas" has passed, take a breath, and be thankful for the loved ones in your life. And then pick up the phone and call a friend you haven't spoken to in a while. Make lunch plans with that friend you just don't get together with enough. Or go visit that elderly relative you don't see as often as you should.
It's all fine and dandy to enjoy your gifts, those material possessions we all crave so much, but take the time to enjoy the people, because really, isn't that what it's all about?
Yeah yeah, I know, I'm all mushy today. Deal with it. ;-)
Merry Day After Christmas everyone! And go visit Shelley for the "Only The Good Friday" details.
1 comment:
Merry Day After Christmas, Karina! Or Boxing Day, as it's known here in Canada. (Why, you may ask? It's a hold-over from colonial days. Being a former British colony, and all that. The British aristocracy used to give boxed-up gifts to their domestic staff on the day following Christmas - thus, Boxing Day.)
In Canada it's rather like your Black Friday - sales galore.
As for getting in touch with friends or relatives I don't see often enough, I'll be doing that very thing tomorrow with my step mom.
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