Damn Christmas!

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that's why I despised the 80's about the only good thing that came out of that decade is Married with Children.

im not a fan of the whole xmas thing and the histrionics involved.
IMHO if one doesnt have small children around to get into the spirit with then xmas is just one big money-sucking monster of commercialism and corporate greed.

Its not just the TV too! Look at the stores! And that damn Salvation Army Santa Clause ringing that bell! They were already putting him Xmas decorations, playing Xmas songs in stores, radios, putting up Xmas trees I mean good grief! Lol This was all at the beginning of November! I mean right after Halloween was over! O.o

I get very fed up with it too. There was Christmas Crap (TM) all over the place when I bought my kids Halloween costumes-- in the middle of October-- before they hustled the Halloween stuff out the door to make room for cookie cutters and tinsel.

Just remember--- It's all one big commercial, and it's mostly BS.

This isn't Christmas. Christ's Mass is about some baby sleeping in a feeding trough in a stable in Israel (and probably happened in the Spring anyway). It's about the faith of a girl who found herself pregnant out of wedlock in a time and place where that was a capital offense. It IS NOT about baking perfect cookies, finding perfect presents, and decorating a perfect tree. This is, in fact, the antithesis of Christmas. This is CrapMess. It's an American holiday, and you don't have to celebrate it.

I find that, if I just don't buy into all the happy "Most Won-der-ful Tiiiiiiime of the Year" horsecrap, I actually enjoy this time of year. It's cold, it's snowy, I'm not sick of cold and snowy yet. I still have veggies from the garden in the pantry, and I don't have to water seedlings every day yet. The kids are about to get ten days off from school, and I get to go on a really long road trip...

...OK, so my mother-in-law and a whole bunch of holiday hoopla are at the other end of the trip...

...but I don't have to think about that. I can think about 1000 miles of me, the van, and the CD player.

The important thing to remember about Christmas is that it should be what you want your Christmas to be, not what TV wants it to be. It truly sucks though when you are depressed or just really not into it and everybody else is way into it, but when you aren't all that depressed and feel like getting a little bit into it, then doing so kind of helps. This is the first year in a while that I haven't hated it and wished I didn't have to deal with it.