The Battle of the Unknown

I will post my 3 Beautiful Things later on today, but for now I just want to chat.

Christmas this year seems to have passed me by, I have no Christmas work do to go to, no Christmas presents to buy (yet), heard no Christmas songs, and no Christmas parties.

Now I'm not complaining, don't get me wrong, but this year I feel detached from what's happening around me, and it's kinda nice.
I'm so snowed under with work I barely leave the house and rarely watch TV or listen to the radio - the most of Christmas I've had so far was the odd Waterstone's advert from earlier in November.

The places I go and people I see are all the same, no sparkly Christmas trees or excitement from any of them.

This all gives me the sense that Christmas really isn't worth worrying about.
I'm not a humbug, honest.

I've never liked the commercialism that Christmas nowadays brings, and I know I'll enjoy Christmas when I get home and see my family, have a nice quiet meal, go to church and relax.

That suits me fine, and I'm glad I'm not being swept up in the frenzy - it allows me to just plod onwards in quiet contentment.

And plodding onwards I shall be; I have a lot of work to do (as ever) but its not so daunting now, I'm fairly relaxed, and that itself is almost stressing me out, but I'm not letting it, I'm just gonna go with the flow.
I know what I need to do, and I know how to get there, which, I'm starting to realise, is half my battle.
The battle with the unknown.

Now enough of my rambling, time for lunch :)