“So Elm, have you wrapped all your presents yet?”
“Erm, no…”
“Have you actually bought all of your Christmas presents yet?”
“Umm… Maybe?”
“What – we’re going up to Grandma’s today! Bloody hell.”
“…Eh, sorry?”
Now ordinarily, I’m a festive snowflake around Christmas time. I scream Christmas songs, wrap presents, and generally piss everyone off with my excitement. Guess what? This year I haven’t been festive at all.
I know, I know; it’s horrifying. I didn’t even help decorate the tree much (though my sister was worse); my Christmas-music-listening has been appalling and I’ve not read any Christmassy books, but I’ve been too busy reading a historical fiction series I’m obsessed with WHICH HASN’t BEEN COMPLETED ARGH!
Something needs to change. I need to get my reindeer tinsel shit together. So, I’ve compiled a short list of all the things I’m going to do.
Elm’s Strategies to Prevent Her Turning into a Scrooge
1. Have my annual fight with my cousin over who’s going to give out the presents. I will destroy that little bastard!
2. Listen to Christmas music at top volume. It has the added bonus of irritating people, so it’s a win-win situation!
3. Truly getting into the wrapping of presents spirit by enthusiastically forcing my parents to help me do the wrapping. Who cares if it’s out of character for me? They’ll just have to get used to it.
4. Read a horrifically cheesy romance Christmas novel that will make me forget I’m forever alone. I mean, it’ll put me right into the Christmas mindset! Any recommendations?
5. Get far too excited over Swedish Christmas dinner at Grandma’s, and then English Christmas dinner at my mum’s. How could you deny food? Food is brilliant. In fact, I think that I’m going to try and help with making it, and if the house burns down then it wasn’t a very sturdy house, obviously. What do you mean, I’m a shit cook?!
There you go: how I’m going to become less of a Scrooge this Christmas. Perhaps it’ll work, perhaps it won’t; we’ll just have to see.
See you on the other side! I won’t be able to post much over the next few days because Christmas, but if you have a great post you’d like me to read, then less me know!
Joyeux noelle,
From Elm 🙂
Just Call Me Elm or Something 
I don’t know what it is about this year, but this Christmas season just hasn’t felt Christmassy to me either. I was talking about it at work just yesterday and I’m not alone. I haven’t finished Christmas shopping so I’ll be battling the last minute shoppers today. I haven’t decided on our Christmas menu yet. Hopefully it will kick in and my family can have gifts and a nice dinner on Christmas. If not, then corndogs and IOUs will be given! Welp… Happy Holidays to all! =]
I hope it went well! I managed to be as festive as I could, but still, it didn’t really feel as Christmassy as usual. I’m putting that down to this year just being so incredibly negative and all of the terrible things that have happened in the world
Don’t worry I’m more of a Grinch anyway. Christmas is almost as bad as L singing honey g
Oh God don’t even talk to me about that. He still hasn’t stopped
Hit him in the balls with your cane. That should do it
I’m sure he’s already had plenty of that… Hitting from other canes…. EW GOD NO
That innuendo was glorious
The best solution is gingerbread, and lots of it.
I absolutely love gingerbread it’s my favourite thing in the world!
Omg this was almost exactly my reaction when I found out yesterday that we were going to my grandma’s today! 😂 My response to pretty much everything Christmasy this year has been “Bah humbug!” And now I am up at 5 AM trying to figure out what I actually did with the presents for my grandma and grandpa…
Ahahaha that is brilliant!! I am literally the same haha! How was your Christmas?
I haven’t even bought presents yet…oops
Ahahaha I hope Christmas went well! 😛
Lol I have felt the same way! I feel like I’m losing the “Christmas Spirit” too. That is a great plan though, good luck!
Thanks – I somewhat succeeded in my festive planning! How was your Christmas?
Brilliant strategies! Dickens would salute you.
Thanks! I’d hope that Dickens would be proud haha
I’ve heard the book ‘Let it snow’ is meant to be great to read at this time of year and may I ask what historical fiction series you’re reading? I love historical fiction haha 🙂
It’s called Storm and Silence, set in Victorian times and is about a girl called Lilly Linton who is the most amazing protagonist ever!!
I’ll check it out! 🙂
I literally haven’t wrapped anything yet either I love procrastination.
I BARELY got mine done haha! How was your Christmas?
NEITHER we ran out of tape I was a mess. But yes my Christmas was good ❤
Yayy!! 🙂
This is so cute! I hope you embrace the Christmas spirit completely. As got books, have you read John Green’s Let It Snow? It’s the cutest, most christmassy book ever!
I’ve had that recommended to me! I REALLY wanna read it 🙂
OMYGERSH same, I haven’t felt very festive at all this Christmas season…
I don’t know what it was… Something about it didn’t seem as exciting… Maybe I am just a grinch, IDK.
Honestly tho, how was it? At the moment I am sooo stuffed chock-a-block full of food, I feel like the turkey I am so stuffed.
It was really nice tho. A heap of fun. I guess I did get into the spirit after all!
Yayyy for Christmas; so glad you had a good time! Mine was REALLY good! I loveee turkey so much hahaha 😀
Haha hope you managed to not turn into Scrooge Elm and that you had a good Christmas! 🙂
I most certainly did, and I hope you did too! X