Would you Believe -- it's the Holidays

The Holidays just sneak up and scatter all your functionality. Expectations you set for yourself and others set for you sneak up until they are causing havoc every day. Then top it off with memories, family expectations and drama and you're in the holiday zone whether you want to be there or not.

No matter how many times I ramp up to the holidays I always find myself derailed about mid December. With any luck I can re-focus in time to salvage the spirit of the holidays for myself personally.  

But what intervenes is expectations, deep thinking about how to handle emotionally diverse situations, repeated visits to the vault of Christmas past in my mind. I'm caught in a mire of unorganized, inefficient musing and non action.  Never fails, don't know how to fix it.

But then I stop. I consider the strategies I have learned when developing a sober, sane life. I try to apply them  universally to the holidays, no messing around, just do what I know how to do.

And, if I stick to it a bit the fog lifts and I can refocus in the present and I have a chance to negotiate the holidays from a clean and sober point of view. I gotta admit I  have to bring myself back to it from time to time, but I have a chance.

Peace Out.