For an introvert like myself, these holidays are a nightmare....days and days of non-stop visiting and conversing and being "on". It's so exhausting !!! I usually start getting stressed already the beginning of December.
I love my family (most of them), but it's much easier to spend a couple of hours taking my mom and sister to lunch and catching up, than to have 10 or 12 people spend ALL DAY together and talk, talk, talk. I know, I know, I'm lucky to have a lot of family, and we are close, but it will literally take me at least a week to recoup from the holidays.
Just thought I'd give a bit of a different perspective on this...it's so hard to explain to people how draining this is....people just think you're weird.
I hate that I feel that way....I wish I could just get excited like everybody else. I will say that I AM SUPER EXCITED about my daughter visiting us from Japan this year. I haven't seen her in almost 2 years and I can't wait to up to the airport on Wednesday and watch that little screen to see her and my son-in-law as they get off the plane.
That's my best Christmas present this year
but still trying to own this..... 
...makes every song his very own! 
