Sunday, October 16, 2005
Capture your senses in a smile
Christmas paraphernalia is starting to pop up all over the city. Sparkly snowmen and fuzzy Santa Clauses are sitting beside the Halloween candy and princess costume. The window displays are rife with red and silver and plaid and scarves, and are set up beside the new fall sweaters, just a few feet away from the clearance racks of tank tops and sundresses.This is the biggest evidence of my latest time warp. I have to remind myself that Christmas really is only two months away, and that before I know it, I'll be in the middle of snow and Christmas pageants and holiday cheer and general goodwill. I'm not sure why--maybe it's because I'm not doing anything Christmas-y yet. That's part of it--I'm not doing any sorts of shows or activities, so Christmas, which usually starts in September, hasn't started yet, and it's mid-October.
The weather has something to do with it, too. It's been unseasonably warm here, and it's only been in the past two weeks that it's started to feel like fall. The leaves are still green, and it just doesn't work to have green leaves and green wreathes at the same time.
I think, though, that the biggest part of it is that life hasn't been normal since August 31, and so that's where my frame of reference is stuck. I know, in my head, that today is October 16, and that Christmas is only 69 days away, but it feels like that strange limbo that happens when you're on vacation and away from home. Even though I'm not on vacation, and this is, for now, "home." I still feel like I'm waiting for Sept 1 to come.
But, despite what my ever-so-fallible internal calendar tells me, it really and truly is mid-October, which means that... Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat; won't you please put a penny in the old man's hat.
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