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"The tree is up and lit, but only a few ornaments hang upon it. No decorations are hung through the house (though the outside lights are up) and I haven&amp;#039;t even hung up the stockings. I usually start playing Christmas music in my car the minute the weather turns cold, but this year my commute to and from work has been silent. What the heck is wrong with me?  And it&amp;#039;s not that I&amp;#039;m depressed - I&amp;#039;ve had an awesome last few weeks, I really have. I&amp;#039;ve been crazy busy at work, and I&amp;#039;m really in a groove with writing my novel, so I really have been occupied at an intense level, but since when haven&amp;#039;t I made time for Christmas? I look at the tree and the bin full of decorations and I just want to sink back down on the couch and pretend it isn&amp;#039;t there. Tonight, the kids and I are decorating no matter what. Even if I feel like I have to force it, they need me to do it. It&amp;#039;ll be fun once I get into it, I know. I just don&amp;#039;t feel it this year. I have the kids this weekend, and we are going to Christmas it up. We&amp;#039;ll be caroling, shopping, watching Christmas movies and even going to see a massive light display. I&amp;#039;m going to drop a nuclear Christmas bomb on my own bah-humbug head and by golly, there will be Christmas spirit, if I have to stab myself with a sharpened candy cane to feel it. Does this holiday feel &amp;quot;off&amp;quot; to you? Have you ever had the holiday &amp;quot;blahs&amp;quot; like this? How do you break yourself out of it? [Follow Ellie on Twitter and Facebook] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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