"The 25 Days of Why I Hate Christmas" - Day 1

Hello there Internet People!  I know it has been a while since I have bitched about something over here, so I thought I might as well put this rant on this Blog.  It is a little more personal than my usual faire over here, but it speaks to the ills of our society as well, so I think it qualifies. 

I was thinking this morning that I should write a series of Blog posts: "The 25 Days of Why I Hate Christmas" and post one each day until the holiday.  I really don't want to be stuck trying to pull that one off, but I thought the idea was funny, and probably way too true for me (and probably a lot of other people as well).  I have a long standing Love/hate relationship with Christmas, and it has only tilted way more towards the hate end as I have gotten older. 

The whole concept of buying shit we don't need with money we don't have to celebrate the birth of someone I don't even believe ever actually existed is just fucking ludicrous.  And the hysteria over the buying of said crap?  I mean seriously, even I am not that fucking crazy!   

Now I do Love Christmas decorations!  The trees and the lights and the ornaments and knick knacks, yeah, I am a sucker for all of it.  The more the merrier, the gaudier the better.  Most years I spend "Black Friday" at home, decorating.  And It always takes more than one day to put up ALL the decorations.  But I would really rather just skip right over the rest of the whole fucking holiday season.

To me, Christmas is about crushed hopes and shattered dreams.  My own Dear Mother started that tradition when I was just a small child.  Every year she would hand me the Sears Toy Catalog and have me mark off all the things I wanted for Christmas.  And then she would make sure I did not get a single one of those things.  She did it to me every year.  I am still not sure what lesson she thought she was teaching me with that nifty trick, but I can pretty much guarantee it wasn't the one that I learned.

And don't even get me started on the whole Santa Claus thing, no one wants me to go there.  Trust me on this one.  

And now we have the wonderful addition of the "War on Christmas" to add to the innumerable joys of the holiday season.  We can't just let everyone be happy and celebrate the season however the hell they want, no, we couldn't do that.  We have to have one side fighting to force Christmas down everyone's throats while the other side is busy trying to rip Christmas out by the roots, and all the while the retail world is just fucking us all in the ass.  Yeah, Happy Fucking Holidays, and a Merry gawddamn Christmas to you too.