Not all that glitters...

...makes me puke, but it is difficult to keep your eyes open during pre-Christmas time, which – as a saying goes – starts right after Easter. Getting blinded by artificial stars is particularly disturbing in November, when your body is learning to cope with early darkness and cold mornings and the only appreciated sources of light are the sun or the Internet. People wake up from their half-sleep only to swallow their vitamin D. They have already started to complain that they should be on a diet, so that they won’t have to resist the army of cookies, eggnogs and all kinds of stuffed animals that’s approaching.

In their minds it’s already December. December is different. It’s the only cold month with a bit of life outside overheated houses and workplaces before they-which-must-not-be-named come: January and February. On New Year’s Eve everyone is broke, while in December people are still stressed looking for presents, thus full of energy! Who doesn’t like the pre-Christmassy atmosphere of the last month of the year, with its buzzy markets and that decent smell of alcohol in public transportation and Mariah Carey! November says ‘no’.