Mistletoe and wine?

It doesn't much feel like Christmas.

I say that every Christmas, but it feels truer this year. You look around, and it's a night like any
other. It doesn't feel like Christmas out in the streets, either. All of two houses on the block have
lights out, and none have actual decorations.

across the road from us every year at Christmas the guy who lives there always put up a big light display of Christmas things, I say big it was a big display for where I live, not American cheesy crap big, I think he worked for a company that sold the big light displays, you know like the ones you'd get round town. This year? Nothing. Granted now that I think about it I'm not entirely sure he still lives there, seeing as how these days everyone seems to keep to themselves rather then talk to the neighbor's, we had some more in across the way from us and we don't even know there name, time was we would of been straight over there welcoming them to the area but not now. Ho hum. How little time we have for people these days.

Where was I? Ah yes Christmas, it's just become so impersonal. The exchanging of gifts is more a routine born of habit than anything else. Something you do because you've been doing it your whole life and who are you to stop now? There's no real magic left in it, no excitement when you wake up the next day. I wish I could say it was just me. That I lost the Christmas spirit somewhere along the way and everyone else was still as merry as ever, but I can't. I never really liked Christmas that much anyway its just I'm used to everyone else getting excited about it and everywhere I turn, people seem to just be pottering on like its any other day of the week.

Arrr well its New Years eve lets go get drunk. Maybe Christmas will come next year.