Missing Hamburg

Experiencing an overdose of the Christmas spirit, gifts, carols, carol contests, parties, lights, concerts, lanterns, stereos blaring loudly with songs of the season, somehow I miss Hamburg, where everything is magical leading up to Christmas day, and then on the 26th of December, everything is gone, as if nothing happened, no season went by.  The city cleans up pretty well.

Somehow I miss that.  Can we stop with the celebrations already?  Can our lives just go back to normal now?  It's beginning to be kind of stressful, ho, ho, ho!

'Tis the season I'm not playing any more Christmas songs, but I'm loving the 10-degree weather!