The Most Wonderful Week of The Year

The joys of a week when much of the world is on autopilot.

There was a time when I thought Boxing Day was the saddest day of the year. Scratch that: December 25, around 10am, was rhe saddest moment of the entire year because the presents had long been opened and now it was the longest possible stretch of time until it happens over again.

I mean, if it was a particularly awesome present like the ColecoVision I scored in 1983, that would stretch out the happiness a bit longer. But in most years, the feeling was not unlike what one NFL legend (Deion Sanders, I think) said he experienced the day after he’d finally achieved his lifelong goal of winning a Super Bowl title. At first it was exhilarating, but soon he realized that now he’d finally done what he’d dedicated his life to - but he still had two thirds to three quarters of that life left to live, for which he now needed a new purpose and motivation.

But with the passage of time, you realize that Christmas isn’t all about getting presents. It’s also about eating lots of chocolate.

Oh, an…