Is Love Alive?

"This is my winter song, December never felt so wrong."

(From my new favorite song, "Winter Song" by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson. Check it out).

So we're 10 days away from Christmas.
Whaaaat?
I'm totally confused by this. Exams start the day after tomorrow, and I'm not freaking out yet. I usually freak majorly, but I'm oddly numb.

Anyway, that's not really my point at all.
My point is that even though I've been jamming to my Christmas station on my Pandora since early November, it still does not feel like the Christmas season at all.

We just got our tree yesterday. We didn't even get it at a tree farm like we usually do. It's usually this whole big outing, complete with snowball fights, hot chocolate, sledding, swearing, snow, and trees. My parents got the tree from Lowes. It's not decorated yet. It's ridiculous. I'm not happy about it.
I've hardly done any shopping, there have been zero shopping marathon days with my mom, we haven't made cookies together.

For God's sake, my mom and I haven't even watched 'Rudolph' and 'Charlie Brown' together. We do that EVERY year.

Issue 4 of "The Viking Views" comes out tomorrow, and in it is my column about all my awesome holiday traditions and why they make Christmas Christmas for me. I realized that I haven't done one of them yet.

And so far, this Christmas is lame.