A Tall Girl's Podmas (Week 1) | Tiny Christmas Trees, Horrible Gifts, Getting Into The Holiday Spirit

Good morning everybody. You are currently listening to a Tall Girls podcast hosted by a tall girl named India. I hope everyone who is tuning in today is doing super fantastic. Before I get to this episode, I do want to say, make sure following me on my socials at a Tall Girls podcast on Instagram, TikTok, and pinterest, like you could stay up tonight on all of the latest podcast episodes and catch a glimpse of my everyday life. Also, feel free to leave me review and let me know how tall you are. I'm genuinely curious. I'm still looking for my height twin. Of course, everything is gonna be linked to the description welcome to pod miss probably the most wonderful time of the year. As I said before in the previous episode, podmus is gonna look a little different. You know, I'm trying to stray away from me saying yeah, like I'm not participating in pod misus, like I'm still doing some sort of podbas because podbus is more about like those holiday themed, winter themed podcast episodes. It's just the frequency of these episodes are gonna look a little different because Pogmas, which is similar to vlog miss if you're a blogger or blog miss. If you're a blogger, is where you just post holiday themed podcast episodes every single day for the month of December, or at least every single day up until Christmas. I just know it's not happening for me this year. Honestly, when I tried it last year, it wasn't even happening for me last year. It's just with school and now work, and then on top of that, now I'm trying to incorporate video podcasts into this podcast. It's just I don't think I have the bandwidth for it this year. And that's okay. That is a okay. I am not mad about it. I am not anxious about it. I'm not stressed about it. I'm just gonna go with the vibes, if you will. So instead of doing an episode every single day for the month of December, or doing like how I did last year and doing the twelve Days of Pond Miss, where I did three episodes per week for four weeks, I'm just gonna try to do one to two holiday themed podcast episodes every single week and hopefully get a guest on here at least once a week because I want to incorporate more guests onto this podcast as well. That's actually one of my goals. It's one of my goals for this podcast for twenty twenty four. But stay tuned for that because I'm gonna be doing a New Year's Goals episode, so I'll talk more about that then. But nonetheless, we're still here and we're still doing pondmis so let's get into it. This is honestly my desperate attempt to get into the holiday spirit because I'm just not really feeling it this year. A big reason is probably because of the weather. If you live in New York City, the weather here is it goes crazy sometimes, but we're like in that sixty degree fifty degree era and in December that's pretty on seasonal. Usually it's in like the thirties or the forties. Yeah, it's not as cold as January, so but it starts getting pretty cold around this time of year. So the fact that it's actually kind of warm, that may have something to do with the fact that it just doesn't feel like holiday season. Because when I was younger, there was snow, it was super cold outside, there was holiday music everywhere, holiday movies. Okay, rut Off the Red Nose reindeer. Granny got run over by a reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Charlie Brown. Oh my gosh, I don't even know where Charlie Brown went for Thanksgiving. I mean to be fair, I didn't even try to look up Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on TV. But come on, that was like everywhere. And now it's just that I'm not seeing as much, not hearing the holiday music as much, I'm not seeing the holiday movies as much. There's usually lights everywhere you go in the city, even if you're not in Manhattan, for example, if you're in like different burrows, like I'm pretty sure this will probably rely makes sense to be living in New York or visited New York. But just bear with me. If you're not in like the Manhattan area. Even when you're like in Brooklyn and Queens and other boroughs, they still have holiday lights up. There's not a lot of holiday lights up this year. It's actually kind of been like that for the past few years. I will say, probably like up to twenty up to twenty fifteen twenty sixteen, that's when the holiday vibes are holiday vibing. But after that it just got worse. And worse and worse, like it just steadily decreased. And I don't understand how or why, but the holiday cheer, the holly jollyness is just not hitting right now. But I also think it's a little bit stressful for me too, and that's probably playing a part in it, because I'm doing a lot of Christmas shopping. There's this term that my family usually uses about playing Santa Claus. So I have a lot of younger cousins and of course other family members, and you know, I'm playing Santa Claus this year and getting a lot of people gifts, and you know, I'm still a college student, so I'm making college student money. Me trying to like budget and save is it's like a little bit stressful because it's mainly because I'm not used to it. I've never done it before. I'm not a big finance person, a big money person, and that is not a good thing because I'm an adult and I really need to get into that mindset of trying to make sure that my finances are in order. So I'm trying to use this time period to really push myself to do that. And I argue that it was not It's not a good. It's not a good time period to try to push myself to do all that budgeting and financing and blanding and stuff. But sometimes you really just you really just got to push your hard so you can learn and prepare for next year. A lot of people around my age usually have these Christmas funds that they start doing in August, end of August, going into fall, going into September. I think that that's very smart. I did not even think about doing that this year, but you know, it's something to know for next year. If you have any tips for me about Christmas shop and on a budget and budgeting and planning and all that stuff so I can be able to get people these gifts and also have money to pay my bills and feed myself, that would be great. I would definitely appreciate it. But going back to the holiday spirit, I haven't put my Christmas tree up, so maybe that could help. Maybe I just need to I need to not rely on the external factors to get me into that holiday spirit. Maybe I need to start from within, and that starts with putting that Christmas tree. And speaking of Christmas trees, are you even tall if you're not taller than your Christmas tree Like this is a genuine question for the tall people out there. Okay, let me stop, because some of y'all we have a twelve foot tall Christmas trees, and I don't know how that would work. Ever since I was a teenager, I've always been taller than our Christmas tree. Oh my gosh, I wish I still had the pig trees. And it used to be so embarrassing because that was the time in my life where people were comparing me to trees because of my height. So I would look back at those photos and my parents took and cringe so hard. But honestly, I'm not even complaining anymore because at least putting the star at the top of the tree was not difficult. It was just starting to decorate the tree from the bottom that was a hassle. I would have to be getting up and down, up and down off the floor. It was not a good look. It was not a good look. I don't even know where our Christmas tree is. See. The thing about us is that we'd be recycling. Okay, not recycling. We reuse Christmas trees. We don't throw them out the year that we get them. We usually keep them for about like four to five years. Three to five years is a safe zone because why would you spend money on a Christmas tree every single year? Yeah, or maybe that's just us, Maybe we're just weird. Oh my gosh, imagine if we threw it out, that'll actually be screwed up. So maybe I should look for that and hopefully that'll get me into the holiday spirit. And when I put it up, maybe I'll actually take a picture of me next to it, so y'all know that I'm taller than my Christmas tree. I'm taller that my six foot tall Christmas tree. But we gotta do what we gotta do. We gotta put up that Christmas tree. We gotta find that Christmas tree and put it up because we got to get the gifts underneath the Christmas tree. Oh dear, the gifts. Don't even get me started. I was talking earlier in the episode about how I was stressed out about getting people gifts, and I don't even think I'm stressed out about whether or not they like it. It's just the whole finance situation. But whatever that's behind us, I'm more so stressed out about what I'm going to get its gifts I'm scared about what gifts I'm going to get for Christmas because people feel the need to buy me clothes for some reason. And I'm still trying to figure out a way to tell these people to not do that. I really disliked when family members would buy me gifts growing up, because eleven times out of ten, they were always clothes. Jackets, sweaters, pants, you name it. And because I'm tall, and because I had several growth spurts, they were never the right size or the right length forrime. Example, my grandma bought me a jacket once, and you know, out of appreciation, I thought i'd wear it. So I wore the jacket to a family gathering and one of my family members literally said to me, girl, you have outgrown that jacket. When did you get that? I was like, I got it this past Christmas. It was literally a week ago. And I don't even know why I was offended, because that jacket did not reach my wrists at all. LI said, I just didn't want to do my grandma dirty, that's all. So you know, I gotta I gotta think these things through a little bit more, and I really need to find the courage to tell these people to not buy me any type of clothing unless I specifically send you something like a link or something. Don't make any assumptions. Don't make any assumptions for me. I will let you know. Okay, So, if you're somebody that I know who's listening to this and you're planning to get me a gift, just save yourself to headache, save both of us to headache, and just get me food. Period. We'll see how this holiday season goes. We'll see how this Christmas goes. I get a feeling that a lot is gonna happen. As I've said in my previous episode, I'm gonna be doing holiday markets. Holiday I'm gonna try to do holiday things. I'm gonna try to force myself to get into the holiday spirit because the holiday vibes really just are not holiday vibing, and I need them to holiday vibe right now. I need them to holiday vibe right now. Okay. So, and as I literally live in New York City, what better place on this planet earth to get into the holiday spirit than New York City. Exactly, I'm gonna try my best. I'm gonna fill you guys in, and you guys better be following me on my socials because I'm going to be trying to post all the festivities and activities or as much of them as possible that I do, so that you guys can just hopefully get inspired into the holiday spirit too. We'll see, but I'm gonna end this episode here. Thank you so so much for tuning in. I really appreciate it, and I appreciate you as I always. Feel free to hit me up on my socials. Please hit me up at a Tall Girls podcast. Let me know some tips on Christmas shopping on a budget and budgeting and financing and all that stuff as a college today because I need help. Thank you so much. Also, hit me up and let me know what you're gonna be doing this holiday season. If you're in New York City, what are you gonna be doing. Even if you're not in New York City, wherever you are, what are you going to do to get yourself at the holiday spirit? Do you celebrate the holidays at all? Like it doesn't even have to be Christmas, there's every there's a lot of other things like Hanukkah and Kwanza and all that stuff. Just let me know what you're celebrating. What you're gonna do to partake in the festivities. I'm down for a chat. But again, thank you so much for joining me on pod Miss Day one, pod Miss Week one, pod Miss episode one, thank you for joining me on pod Misus episode one, and I'll catch you the next one. Good night and goodbye.