By Roger Mosley
I have lived in a cycle of depression and sadness for the last ten years of my life. Incidentally, I have been married for ten years and have hosted Thanksgiving AND Christmas at our house for the combined families for nine of those ten years. I know there are so many people out there who have an extremely hard time dealing with the holiday madness, and all they have to do is participate. Imagine how bad it is for us each year? My wife gets just as overwhelmed as I do, and we always end up in a big fight sometime at the beginning of December and spend the remainder of our vacation sad and regretful. Not this year. This year, I'm throwing a Christmas t-shirts party.
I know that you're thinking that a party that features Christmas t-shirts is going to be a drag. You might even think that a party like this is going to do nothing for my anxiety, but will probably increase it by a few decibels. Well, you're wrong. This party is going to be just what everyone needs to snap out of the trance that the holiday season puts us in and help us to realize that there may be a lot of pressure for things to be perfect, but it's also not the end of the world if they aren't.
We're all going to meet up at my house; pop the tops off of several beers, bottles of wine, and liquor; and leave our kids with some other responsible adults who will watch them for an evening. We are then going to get smashed, cry if we need to, and recover from Thanksgiving before Christmas runs us over like a semi truck. I just want this Christmas t-shirts party to be fun, because it seems to me that there really isn't a whole lot of fun being had by anyone during Christmas.
If I'm trying to get away from Christmas for a night, then why am I asking all of my guests to wear Christmas t-shirts? Well, I'm so very glad you asked. Since everyone I know who is under the age of 50 thinks of Christmas t-shirts as something old church ladies wear, then it will be jarring and hilarious to see a whole room full of young people wearing them. Imagine showing up to a party to drink and have fun, and everyone there has shirts covered in rhinestones, snowflakes, and Santas. That would be pretty awesomely hilarious, would it not? Once you can laugh at something, it is no longer so scary...which will be the whole point of this party.
There will also be no gift exchanging. The only gifts that are allowed to swap hands at this party are shots of liquor and glasses of beer. I have a feeling that there are going to be lots of friends who are going to turn my invitation down because they are too busy, too stressed, and too tired. They might as well be saying that they are too sad to come. I will have to talk them all into it, and they will thank me vigorously once they get a few adult beverages in them and realize that having a Christmas T-Shirt Party was the shot in the arm that they needed to get over their Christmas bug.
I know that you're thinking that a party that features Christmas t-shirts is going to be a drag. You might even think that a party like this is going to do nothing for my anxiety, but will probably increase it by a few decibels. Well, you're wrong. This party is going to be just what everyone needs to snap out of the trance that the holiday season puts us in and help us to realize that there may be a lot of pressure for things to be perfect, but it's also not the end of the world if they aren't.
We're all going to meet up at my house; pop the tops off of several beers, bottles of wine, and liquor; and leave our kids with some other responsible adults who will watch them for an evening. We are then going to get smashed, cry if we need to, and recover from Thanksgiving before Christmas runs us over like a semi truck. I just want this Christmas t-shirts party to be fun, because it seems to me that there really isn't a whole lot of fun being had by anyone during Christmas.
If I'm trying to get away from Christmas for a night, then why am I asking all of my guests to wear Christmas t-shirts? Well, I'm so very glad you asked. Since everyone I know who is under the age of 50 thinks of Christmas t-shirts as something old church ladies wear, then it will be jarring and hilarious to see a whole room full of young people wearing them. Imagine showing up to a party to drink and have fun, and everyone there has shirts covered in rhinestones, snowflakes, and Santas. That would be pretty awesomely hilarious, would it not? Once you can laugh at something, it is no longer so scary...which will be the whole point of this party.
There will also be no gift exchanging. The only gifts that are allowed to swap hands at this party are shots of liquor and glasses of beer. I have a feeling that there are going to be lots of friends who are going to turn my invitation down because they are too busy, too stressed, and too tired. They might as well be saying that they are too sad to come. I will have to talk them all into it, and they will thank me vigorously once they get a few adult beverages in them and realize that having a Christmas T-Shirt Party was the shot in the arm that they needed to get over their Christmas bug.
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