Where's the Christmas Spirit?

So I was sitting here thinking and it hit me that Lucia 2011 is almost over, and I've barely noticed it! At this time I normally run around town shopping for Christmas presents but this year, it just hasn't happened.

I'm really not feeling the Christmas spirit. Maybe it's becuase I didn't have a traditional Swedish Christmas last year. Instead I attended a cocktailparty thrown by a friend and her host family on Christmas Eve since you, in the States, don't open the Christmas presents until Christmas Day morning.

Yesterday I went to the Viktor Rydberg-schools' Lucia celebration at the Gustav Vasa church but despite the beautiful performance, the only real Christmas reminder I have at the moment, is the star in my window. Let's just pray that this rain stops and trancends into snow soon, because I really need to start shopping for presents!