Friday, November 18, 2011

Glad I don't have to do that....

I remember when you really didn’t see any Christmas decorations until after Thanksgiving. It seems like Thanksgiving is the forgotten holiday. “Oh yeah, it’s that day we get off (unless you work in a restaurant that’s open) to eat like pigs, and then begin our shopping trek.”

I’m hearing Christmas music in the stores….seeing outdoor lights on houses, and the . trees started going up in the restaurant. Yes, that’s right, “Trees,” plural. They started putting up the tree that goes in the lobby, a couple of days ago. It’s HUGE! It touches the ceiling, it’s gotta be at least 12 feet tall.

I was watching one of the cooks, standing on a ladder, fluffing out all the upper branches. He had to stand near the top of the ladder to do this. Then out came large boxes of ornaments. The hostess was standing on the floor, doing the bottom half of the tree, while a busboy was commandeered from his duties to climb the ladder to hang the ones that went on the top half. And they were told where to hang each one. Glad all I had to do was walk out in the lobby and say, ”Oh, that looks nice,” and walk away.

Seven more tress to go. At least these are of a more manageable size. Annnnnd, the wonderful woman who works in the kitchen takes charge of all of these. (Whew)

It might have been fun decorating the big tree in lobby, everyone could’ve helped out a little….but when all this decorating becomes a chore, and you have a deadline, it just takes all the fun out of it.

And then everyone talks about all the decorating they have to do at home, and all the shopping they have to do, all things everyone “has to have,” how much money they have to spend, how exhausted they are, they can’t wait until it’s over…. it makes me wonder, what’s the point in all this “busyness?”

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