Materialism, do not want.
This entry by a recent addition to my blogroll has been on my mind, ever since she posted it. It’s hard to imagine what it’s like, approaching the holidays with an almost anti-materialistic, purely altruistic point of view.
I’m angsting a bit (a bit?) about the car, I’ve taken it as a personal affront, and only now am I realizing how much I wanted/needed it, for the good of the household and heightening the prospects of me finding employment with it. Yeah, there are other cars, and after a time, we could probably fix this one up, but we need a car NOW, and we need a car that works. It’s just not going to happen in our price range, it seems.
Anyway, I’m trying to get around that and find more worthy things to occupy my time and focus my energies. I’m to the point now where I can joke about the car thing, “Look, Druid, I flash my headlights at you! *lifts shirt*” And while I still get overwhelmed with what in the world to do with that, I’m slowly getting able to set that aside and continue the quest for employment, whether self- or other. I’ve spammed Craigslist with a few resumes and odd-jobness I can do, we’ll see what comes of that.
In the meantime, chosen-sis will visit sometime in the next couple of weeks, and I shall chauffer her and our friend from DC around city, watching movies and having sushi, it sounds like. As far as gifts, well, trying to buy a car has obliterated any hope of buying the meager things I needed to make the gifts I wanted, so that will have to wait. Most people have been understanding about that.
I still have a roof over my head, and some food in the fridge.
And that entry is calling to me to do more. I’d really like to adopt her attitude about this time of year. Other people have remarked how giving I am throughout the year, surely that can be built upon.
