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<\/a>Yes, Betwixmas<\/strong> is<\/em> a word . . . sort of \u2013 it\u2019s the term used for the six days between Christmas<\/strong> and New Year\u2019s Day<\/strong> \u2013 and we are now in it up to our masks.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are names for two of these six days that bookend Betwixmas; at the beginning, December 26 is \u2018Boxing Day\u2019<\/strong>, which is not celebrated in America, but mostly in England and its former Commonwealth satellites (Canada\/Australia\/New Zealand\/Hong Kong).\u00a0 It started out as a day to honor servants and those less fortunate by giving them a \u2018box\u2019 of something of value.\u00a0 It then morphed into a shopping holiday (apparently, they said, \u2018screw the servants<\/strong>\u2019) where one would take back the \u2018boxes\u2019 of whatever they got for Christmas and exchange them for a box of something they really wanted (Maybe we do celebrate it here in America after all). \u00a0At the other end of Betwixmas is, of course, New Year\u2019s Eve; never before will so many people really mean it when they say “Happy New Year”!!!<\/strong> But those four days in between, particularly this year, will drive you crazy enough to actually try to eat your grandma\u2019s brick-hard fruitcake that you got again this Christmas.<\/p>\nBetweixmas is a time when we really don\u2019t know what day it is,\u00a0 who you are or what you’re really supposed to be doing.\u00a0 There is no school and no one is really<\/em> working.\u00a0 If someone goes into the office during Betwixmas, it\u2019s not to work, it\u2019s just to get away from the spouse and\/or kids, that have been driving them crazy since the Covid outbreak.<\/p>\n Paradoxically, the shortest day of the year<\/strong> was just last Monday, so the days should seem to just fly by, but no, these days drag on and makes Betwixmas seem interminable. \u00a0Typically, it\u2019s the time to relax after the Christmas \u2018rush\u2019 and get ready to usher in a new year, a different year, anything but what we\u2019ve been experiencing, so this Betwixmas drags on even more than normal.<\/p>\n Snow Angel<\/p><\/div>\n The result of these shiftless days are things like creating New Year\u2019s resolutions<\/strong> that are unrealistic and completely unattainable.\u00a0 To wit: \u00a0you\u2019re probably going to be a little heavier by this time next year.\u00a0 That home gym that you built this year will go mostly unused next year.\u00a0 You\u2019re not going to be a better person next year, you\u2019re going to be about the same, and you\u2019re going to be no more organized next year than you are this year.<\/p>\n Usually, the novelty of the kids being home during Christmas vacation calls for some family activity \u2013 heading to the mountains to frolic in the snow, visiting Disneyland<\/strong> or if you\u2019re a fan, going to a college football bowl game.\u00a0 But there\u2019s no snow in the local mountains, Disneyland is closed and the general public is not allowed to attend a college football game.\u00a0 We are doomed to spend Betwixmas just like we\u2019ve spent the last nine months \u2013 in house arrest.<\/p>\n So, one would think that this would have been a good time for a blog that\u2019s really entertaining; a missive filled with little-known facts of interest that would take your mind off the tedium of the times.\u00a0 But no, it\u2019s a match for the times.<\/p>\n Merappy Betwixmas<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Bob Sparrow Yes, Betwixmas is a word . . . sort of \u2013 it\u2019s the term used for the six days between Christmas and New Year\u2019s Day \u2013 and we are now in it up to our masks.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There … read more![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/snow-angel.jpg\")
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