Hello and welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking and thank you for listening. I think it is safe to say, it is time to put up the Christmas tree. While some say that it should happen around the first week of December, I say, why? - Just, why?
Well, you’ve caught me, I’m not the most Christmassy of folks. I won’t go into it, I’ll just say, there are more of us, and I’ll speak for myself, I won’t get in the way of your Christmas cheer, just don’t touch me with it.
You might not celebrate Christmas on account of having other celebrations, Krampus Nacht was on December 5th (if you are still around, this is a confirmation you were good this year, if you aren’t listening to this, you might be in the underworld because you were naughty);  you might be in the middle of Hanukkah, Santa Lucía is in a couple of days, Yule and December Solstice are coming up, Kwanza, and New Year’s. There are lots of last month of the year celebrations. At their core, there are nice feelings and motivations to be good humans around this time of year. I totally respect your celebrations. As a show of goodwill toward you, I will talk about a few things my family likes doing around this time of year and that I don’t interfere with, much.
They celebrate Christmas.  They take out the ornaments and decorations from the boxes at the very back of the storage space. This is the part I call, fun with old dusty colorful things that will collect more dust and make cleaning the house a trying experience. They buy a Christmas tree or Christmas corps. I get the whole, it smells so good thing, but to me, it is the same as putting a butterfly in a cage. Looks pretty for a while, but in the end, you get a dead butterfly. That makes me sad, not happy. But as I said, I won’t interfere much. If you want a tree, that is fine. My family buys a tree, they strap it on the roof of the car, tie it here and there to make sure it doesn’t fly away on their way home. You know what else people strap on the roof of their cars and drive home?... anyway when they get home, fun with little needles that clog up the vacuum cleaner begins. So now they have made a mess of the house, with the pine needles, the ornaments, and other decorations, just strewn about while they find the right place to hang the stockings (those are the big socks Santa puts the little presents in), if you have a fireplace, you hang them there, if you don’t, you hang them where you always hang your dirty socks. I might hang my sports bra after yoga and a bike ride, just to make it a little more festive. Smelly you say? Don’t forget, this time of year is about the senses, what would it be without Christmas odors and music?
My family plays Christmas carols and ballads, there is even rock. There is a John Denver and the Muppets Cd, and there is another with John Lennon and Springsteen, which is not too bad. I don’t cover my ears when they play that music. I just stay out of the way of putting up the tree. First, they affix it in a base with water and cover that with a skirt, like in nature. Then, they wrap the Christmas tree lights, which blink and may or may not cause epilepsy or a fire. I like the optimism my family has when it comes to safety, plug something in that is sitting in water and you will continue to water until it is very dead and we have to Mary Jane’s Last Dance it (this is a reference to a Tom Petty and The Heart Breakers video from the 90s that made a huge impression on me)... continue reading

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