The Advent season

This Advent or christmas season seems kind of ho hum to me. I don't want to downplay the season or time of year that Christ's birth is celebrated, but this year is a little off in some ways. The gift giving part of what I am accustomed to is now at the point where I just buy and receive a gift from each family member. This is fine but some of the excitement of gift giving is dulled by sitting around and proclaiming who each gift is from.

Maybe its my attitude towards christmas. I haven't put up any lights. I don't have a christmas tree up, nor have I sent out any christmas cards. My house looks the same as it did during the summer and other months of the year. I do attend the church services but a sermon about financial woes and another about forgiveness aren't really tied into the season. At least not what I am used to hearing.

I have also found out something that I didn't know. Only catholics and lutherans describe this season as advent. I am not sure why this is or even the meaning of the word advent. It must be related to christ somehow. I am just not sure or the relation. I call this time of year as advent mainly just from tradition.

I don't know. I like seeing everyone else happy and enjoying themselves. However, I am a bit down this year. Last year I had just broken up with my girlfriend and was still drinking some. This year I don't have a lady friend and no real prospects. Maybe I will just turn into scrooge and become a hermit. I just buy any thing I want the rest of the year and really feel bad about others buying me gifts. I already have most of what I want or think I should have. Most of the gifts I get are based on how someone inconvenienced me throughout the last year. Last year I bout my mom 10 metal folding chairs because I was tired of trucking chairs back and forth between my grandparents and my parents. I have bought my dad and grandpa new shovels, sledgehammers, extension cords, 5 gallon buckets and other assorted farm use items. I bought my brother an extension cord so that he would quit moving around the good one in the barn. I bought my sisters dog care items so they could give them to their dogs.

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