Enjoy it while it lasts
| December 10, 2008 | Filled under Shorts |
It is currently snowing in Houston. To fully appreciate this miracle you need to know that it was 78 degrees yesterday.
Since moving to Houston I’ve found it harder to get into the holiday spirit. I’m not so enthralled with the consumerism or the religiousness, or even the family aspect of the holidays. I look forward to Christmas solely for the sense of nostalgia that comes with it — being a kid, staying up into the late hours of night decorating the tree with my mom, wearing a flannel nightgown and fuzzy slippers to open presents on Christmas morning. It’s one of my happiest, simplest memories of childhood.
Korean winters were always cold enough, but I found that the things which annoy me most about the holiday season here — crowds at the stores, endless earwormy Christmas music, tacky plastic decorations — were what I missed most about Christmas in Korea.
The shops in River Oaks and Highland Village can hang their wreaths and transform their olde-time cast-iron streetlamps into candy canes and snowmen, but when it’s 70 degrees outside, it just doesn’t feel like Christmas.
Today, it does.
Holy cow! I had no idea it could snow down there. It’s friggin’ cold up my way (currently 31 degrees). I HATE snow – too many near-death experiences on the roads will do that to a person – but I think I could learn to love it if it never accumulated and was bookended by 70 degree days.
were you working as an english teacher in Korea; or were you a model? christmas away from home has a strange flavor, not in a bad way necessarily, just special.
I’m flattered by the question bu the answer is neither. I was there with my husband while he was working at a shipyard.