Sunday, 10 December 2006

• Something I've been realizing more and more the past few weeks.  I noticed it some last year, maybe a little bit the year before that, but I've especially been noticing it the past few weeks.
  
  Call me the Grinch, but I. don't. like. Christmas.  Christmas is supposed to the season to be jolly, bask in glow of a fire in the fireplace, open nice gifts that are all expressions of love, eating Christmas cookies, remembering Christ's birth, listening to wonderful Christmas music, going caroling, and so on.  It's supposed to be this nice, wonderful, get-the-warm-fuzzies-inside-you kind of time.
  
  What we have instead is a season to spend all night standing in line at Best Buy so that you can get a Playstation or a cheap laptop, overeat like crazy, spend way to much money on way to many gifts, hear the same stale music time after time, day in and day out, and spend the next six months getting rid of all the extra pounds and extra credit card debt that was accumulated over the holiday season. 
  
  We blather on and on about commemorating Christ's birth, repeating the story so often it's become old, boring even.  And really, what do all our nice little Christmas traditions have to do with His birth?  Giving gifts?  Eating 2 pounds of Christmas cookies?
  
  It ain't the season to be jolly.  It's the season to be stressed.  And greedy.  We worry about whether or not our gift is good enough, we worry about our finances, plus the weather at this time of year gets a lot of us down.
  
  On Christmas music: there were at least a few who were "bothered" by what I said about my favorite C-mas song.  But I stand by what I said, Grandma got run over by a reindeer is the only holiday song I've heard in a long time that didn't seem stale.  And it was the only one I've ever heard that was actually funny.
  
  Add to that the fact that I HATE Christmas shopping...
  
  I'm a Grinch.  I don't like Christmas.

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