Christmas 2019

The Tree

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It doesn’t matter now who said it or why, but back when it mattered I was told that I bought stupid, meaningless Christmas presents and that the trees I picked out were wrong too.

Oh- and my decorations were ugly.

So every year I bought gift cards- to play it safe and  I put up a tree and decorated it and in then I  grit my teeth and ignored it until the 26th.

On that day I pull the thing down an toss the ornaments into a bucket -they’re the unbreakable plastic ones and I pull the tree apart ( its fake and come away in three  parts) and I sort of spin the segments and unwind the lights into little ready to unwind balls of lights and toss the entire kit and kaboodle into the storage closet.

The feeling I have is split between elation and relief- neither one seems appropriate.

So for my own reasons I’m trying to improve my attitude about the Christmas season because I really did come to absolutely hate it.

I’ve taken to doing things like reading ghost stories and looking for Krampus decorations. I listen to hours of  Christmas music because nobody has managed to ruin that for me. I even send out real Christmas cards.

Now when I put up my tree I sort of do it in stages- first night I put the lights on and on the second I decorate it.

I wanted to make it fun again  and splitting the task keeps it from feeling like a task and I don’t get overwhelmed by those nasty shadows from Christmas past.

Sometimes I put a movie on while I work- this year I pulled Dexter up and binged watched my favorite season ( last year it was Lucifer ) and then I take pictures of the tree with my dog.

When I think about my trees now, I remember what shows I was watching- and they are good ones- and I have pictures of Hamish Macbeth and my ugly, badly decorated tree that I actually had fun working on.

I’m hoping that I”ll have a  year when I will realize that it’s ‘that time of the year’ and be excited about it. Being that Christmas is a pretty great thing to take part in, I’m willing to work on that.

It is worth it.

Photo A.M. Moscoso

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Photo A.M. Moscoso

Photo A.M. Moscoso

November 25, 2019

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Do you know what I JUST realized?

I only have a month to get ready for a visit from Krampus!

Have fun with Jolly Old Saint Nick.

I am about to embark on

Halloween

Segunda parte.

Note To Holiday Haters

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With the holidays approaching and still not quite here  I’m already hearing a lot of Christmas Music and Jingle Belling and loads of bitching and moaning about how commercial  Christmas is and how Thanksgiving only exists so  that the Poultry industry can make some serious coin  and New Years Resolutions are pointless.

For Pete’s sake, I mean SERIOUSLY, I write about death and despair and evil and not even I have sunk as low as to ruin someone else’s Holiday Spirit, not even in print when I’m telling a made up story and everyone in it are made up characters who designed to take a hit of negativity.

If you think so little of this time of year, I don’t know- join a Facebook Group full of other Holiday Haters  and spread your Debbie Downer-isms there,

Now.

I’m off to write stories about Grave Robbers and Demons.

Be good, be kind and try not to be such a dork- people are trying to have a little fun and feel happy.

amm

Alexa- Summon Krampus

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RDP Friday – Decorated

Vintage Krampus Holiday Card

This year  the Christmas theme

at

Casa del  Moscoso

will be…

Krampus!

I know, BIG surprise right?

I’ve got a month to

THE BIG DAY

and in that time I will be searching for and expressing the spirit of

Krampus

in print, in food, and most Christmassy of all -in decorations.

Just to make sure I leave no stone unthrown- I mean over turned

I just my have to resort to asking Google or Alexa for some help- not that I have access to Alexa but I would like to drop in at some of my friend’s houses and say something like:

” Alexa, summon Krampus “.

So far all I have are my Christmas cards and are they ever PERFECT:

Photo A.M. Moscoso

Photo A.M. Moscoso

The question is, do I send these to my friends and family who have naughty or nice ?

I know, it’s a puzzle but that’s okay. It’s part of the fun and this year for Christmas I intend to have a lot of that.

amm