AS Taylor Swift may say: 'Tis the damn season.
After a year like no other in 2020, we are coming to the business end of another year like no other in 2021.
Wednesday is the first day in December.
Pinch and a punch!
Time flies when you're having fun or navigating the ever-changing restrictions in a border bubble zone amid a global pandemic.
Now Christmas decorations can go up, festive lights can be switched on and Love Actually or A Bad Moms Christmas can be viewed on high rotation taking you right through to Boxing Day afternoon!
If you already did all of the above in October, you're ahead of the game!!
This will free up more time for Christmas gatherings.
It's natural to feel anxious when you have 10 events already booked for the month of December, more than the sum total of events for the whole rest of this year.
Go to another Christmas party. Going out two nights in a row will seem like a lot of effort at best and illegal at worst. But if you're double jabbed, you're free to play! More than likely you'll discover you never checked-out last night!!
Here's how to keep calm and count down the days until Christmas
- Put up the Christmas decorations.
- Pick up the Christmas decorations already fallen down thanks to cats, dogs or toddlers.
- Go to a Christmas party. Don't forget to check-in and check-out!
- Go to another Christmas party. Going out two nights in a row will seem like a lot of effort at best and illegal at worst. But if you're double jabbed, you're free to play! More than likely you'll discover you never checked-out last night!!
- Make a start on the Christmas shopping. Think local traders, makers and markets. Give our hospo friends a hand and buy vouchers for your foodie friends ie. people like me.
- Wrap your gifts while watching Australian Story. Use recycled brown paper and string; they don't have a season like Christmas wrap.
- Catch A Boy Called Christmas at Regent Cinemas Albury.
- Hump Day: Make it a Cherry Christmas and buy locally-grown fruit fresh from the orchard.
- Late night shopping. Wrap up the Christmas shopping and reward yourself with a cocktail, shaken not stirred. The drink, not you silly!
- Support local theatre. Tale of Two Harpies opens at the Butter Factory Theatre in Wodonga on December 10 with two shows on December 11.
- Pick up a real Christmas tree from a plant nursery or farm.
- Decorate the tree. Our tree is not colour-coded with a special theme every other year. Our decorations come from our travels, preschool or friends and family.
- Buy a gift for the Kmart Wishing Tree Appeal up until December 24. Look out for Carevan collections around town too.
- Watch Love Actually!
- Bake something if for no other reason than we can get flour and baking powder. This has not always been the case throughout the pandemic! Alternatively, Nord Bakery is offering northern European Christmas treats.
- Go berry picking. We have the best strawberries, raspberries and blueberries in our neck of the woods nearby at Stanley.
- Friday night lights! Do the rounds to check out the best Christmas lights around town.
- Stock up at the Albury Wodonga Farmers' Market.
- Find a swimming hole. It's the last weekend before Christmas Day and we'll need to cool off!
- Watch A Bad Moms Christmas (poor grammar aside, it will take the pressure off!)
- Phone a friend. Who isn't feeling a little frazzled by December 21 and could do with a phone chat?
- Take a hike. It's the next best thing to phoning a friend to keep calm.
- Wrap any last gifts.
- Put out a carrot for the reindeers and gin for Santa.
- Watch Love Actually!
Enjoy the season everyone.
Don't forget to check-in. And out!
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