Thursday 01/06/11
As today is the Armenian Christmas, I felt it only appropriate to call off work & watch a marathon of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. I wasn't really sick, but I was exhausted from the stress of the previous day & felt I deserved a personal day. Also I'd had this crazy dream that Bigfoot escaped capture & we ran off together to open a fudge shop. The weird thing about that? I don't like fudge.
My goal was to justify taking the day off by getting caught up on housework & side projects, but boy does trash TV have a sneaky way of sucking you in! I found myself toggling between Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills, Jersey Shore, & those kooky Kardashians! It's hard enough keeping up with one of those shows, let alone all three! Shoot.
I wish I had more to report on the activities of the day, but literally I was a total bum! My friends invited me out that night & I had to decline as I hadn't even bothered to shower! I did actually research the Armenian celebration of Christmas tho. The main difference seems to be that Armenian Christmas is a more subdued, purely religious affair. They even fast for the whole week leading up to Christmas. The biggest difference tho is that instead of children going nutty tearing into a giant pile of presents, they instead bring gifts to their elders. There's no Santa Clause breaking & entering into their home on Christmas Eve (Grandfather Winter, as he is called, visits them on New Year's). It's a stark contrast to the way the true meaning of the day gets lost in the jumble of commercialism here in America.
It definitely gave me something to think about. But I couldn't spend too much time on it, as I had to get back to my television viewing. Those Kardashians aren't going to keep up with themselves ya know!
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