Christmas
You know what? I'm kind of sick of everyone bitching about Christmas and how commericalized it's become and how 'oh maybe we should call it a Holiday Tree instead of a Christmas Tree so we don't offend people'. "Christmas is a holiday not a season" blah blah blah. For better or for worse, Christmas encompasses all of December in the United States. If you live here and are going to continue living here, stop fighting it and bitching and just enjoy the fucking SEASON. THE SEASON OF CHRISTMAS.
Yes, it's commercialized. It's been commercialized every since commercials were invented. Why does no one bitch about how commercialized Halloween is? And why continually point this out? Charlie Brown made the point quite effectively in that movie he made a few years back. You're not original or politically smart. You're just being bitter. I love stressing about presents, because you know what? That means I have people I care about to get presents for. And money with which to buy them or the means to make them. I love the decorations in the stores. Yeah, it would be nice if they waited until Thanksgiving was over to put them up, but it doesn't stoke me into a firey self-righteous rage to see a decorated tree before December 1st. And the post-Thanksgiving day sales are pretty sweet. I even kind of enjoy getting up at 4am on that one day. It's like going hunting.
I like the hectic travel. I love the heightened emotions that it brings. YAY MY FAMILY THERE YOU ARE I MADE IT WE ARE TOGETHER AT LAST!!! Wow the house looks great! I always loved those decorations. Oh man, the flight was terrible, I thought we were NEVER going to get off the ground! Thanks, I'd love a drink! Let me help you! Last minute shopping? Yeah, I'll go with, I should pick up a few more things anyway, yeah, the crowds are going to be horrible, think we'll make it? Yeah, let's go I'm ready! BATTLE!!! Wow that was terrible! The worst mall crowds I've ever seen! Yeah, I'm never doing that again! Can you believe we got the last one of those? I KNOW! How lucky!! I'm going to go finish wrapping everything, do you want me to wrap some of yours! Oh, awesome, actually yeah, let's do it together, but let me wrap the ones for you before you come up, give me ten minutes! Okay! Yeah, I think pasta is a great idea, I've never made pasta from scratch. Hey, let's open some wine while I ruin your pasta! Ha ha ha! Oh, shit I dropped it all over the floor. Man, we're never going to get this done in time! Okay, we need to make some kind of game plan here. There is flower EVERYWHERE! Ha ha ha! You have a big flower hand-print on your butt!!! What, it's funny! No reason to get all sensitive. Okay, whatever. Man, this is great, the food tastes AWESOME. Great job everyone! Merry Christmas!
I guess I'm lucky. Maybe Christmas isn't all about family and friends for everyone, but it is for me. And I love an entire month of everyone thinking about what they can do to make everyone important in their lives happy. I think it's awesome. It's the one of the best parts of winter. I will continue to enjoy it and call a Christmas Tree a Christmas Tree and watch A Christmas Story five times on Christmas Eve and decorate my fake tree on December 1st and leave the lights plugged in the whole month because it's pretty. And I will tell my Jewish friends Happy Hannaukah and I will spell it wrong and they will correct me but they will be happy that I gave them wishes. And I will wish all my pagen friends a happy solstice and I'll buy bottles of wine and mix a CD for each of my extreme republican millionaire bosses. And I will do Killoggs Secret Santa every year until someone else decides they want to do it, even though I can never make everyone happy and someone will always get gyped no matter what I do or how much time I put into it. Because I like Christmas. I really do. I like December. I think we should all just give up and start liking it too.
Yes, it's commercialized. It's been commercialized every since commercials were invented. Why does no one bitch about how commercialized Halloween is? And why continually point this out? Charlie Brown made the point quite effectively in that movie he made a few years back. You're not original or politically smart. You're just being bitter. I love stressing about presents, because you know what? That means I have people I care about to get presents for. And money with which to buy them or the means to make them. I love the decorations in the stores. Yeah, it would be nice if they waited until Thanksgiving was over to put them up, but it doesn't stoke me into a firey self-righteous rage to see a decorated tree before December 1st. And the post-Thanksgiving day sales are pretty sweet. I even kind of enjoy getting up at 4am on that one day. It's like going hunting.
I like the hectic travel. I love the heightened emotions that it brings. YAY MY FAMILY THERE YOU ARE I MADE IT WE ARE TOGETHER AT LAST!!! Wow the house looks great! I always loved those decorations. Oh man, the flight was terrible, I thought we were NEVER going to get off the ground! Thanks, I'd love a drink! Let me help you! Last minute shopping? Yeah, I'll go with, I should pick up a few more things anyway, yeah, the crowds are going to be horrible, think we'll make it? Yeah, let's go I'm ready! BATTLE!!! Wow that was terrible! The worst mall crowds I've ever seen! Yeah, I'm never doing that again! Can you believe we got the last one of those? I KNOW! How lucky!! I'm going to go finish wrapping everything, do you want me to wrap some of yours! Oh, awesome, actually yeah, let's do it together, but let me wrap the ones for you before you come up, give me ten minutes! Okay! Yeah, I think pasta is a great idea, I've never made pasta from scratch. Hey, let's open some wine while I ruin your pasta! Ha ha ha! Oh, shit I dropped it all over the floor. Man, we're never going to get this done in time! Okay, we need to make some kind of game plan here. There is flower EVERYWHERE! Ha ha ha! You have a big flower hand-print on your butt!!! What, it's funny! No reason to get all sensitive. Okay, whatever. Man, this is great, the food tastes AWESOME. Great job everyone! Merry Christmas!
I guess I'm lucky. Maybe Christmas isn't all about family and friends for everyone, but it is for me. And I love an entire month of everyone thinking about what they can do to make everyone important in their lives happy. I think it's awesome. It's the one of the best parts of winter. I will continue to enjoy it and call a Christmas Tree a Christmas Tree and watch A Christmas Story five times on Christmas Eve and decorate my fake tree on December 1st and leave the lights plugged in the whole month because it's pretty. And I will tell my Jewish friends Happy Hannaukah and I will spell it wrong and they will correct me but they will be happy that I gave them wishes. And I will wish all my pagen friends a happy solstice and I'll buy bottles of wine and mix a CD for each of my extreme republican millionaire bosses. And I will do Killoggs Secret Santa every year until someone else decides they want to do it, even though I can never make everyone happy and someone will always get gyped no matter what I do or how much time I put into it. Because I like Christmas. I really do. I like December. I think we should all just give up and start liking it too.