Humbug. Christmas = DO NOT WANT! (rant)

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It's the first day of December and I'm sick of it already. I've been smothered with festive crap since September, I kid you not. It's like every year the season gets longer, and stores just cannot wait to shove holiday cheer (and a stiff price tag) in my face. Since when does the Yule season start in freaking October? Right next to the jack-o-lanterns were copious amounts of dancing Santas and snow globes. Barf.

Now people are "subtly" telling me about all the things they want for Christmas. Which is exactly what It's all about "I want this and I want that". You know what? I don't give a crap about what you want, because I'm not buying it for you! Apparently everyone thinks I have money spewing out of every orifice in my body. If you want something so bad, how about earning it instead of fleecing your friends and family? If I want to give someone a gift, I'll do it because I like them, and I'll do it whenever I damn well please. At any time during the year! I certainly should not feel forced to do it, because when you're forced to do something it doesn't mean anything. Not that people care about that.

I'm also sick and tired of certain well-intentioned associates and family members using the holidays as the ruse in which to cram their religious beliefs down my throat. I wasn't interested last year, or any of the years prior. I'm fed up with people trying to save me. It's getting tedious. Do I drone on and on to them about MY special interests if they have told me repeatedly for years that they don't care? No! I'm the one with AS and even I know when to give it a rest and take a freaking hint. Blathering on about how I'm "wrong" like a big self-important primitive boob around Christmas amplifies the irritation ten fold.

As such, me even celebrating Christmas would be pretty absurd. Why is it so important to put one's best foot forward in December? Shouldn't I be kind to people regardless of what month it is? So basically, am I to understand that I can be a complete jerk all year long, and that exerting some kind of synthesized humanity at the end of the year exonerates me from my terminal crabbiness? Oh please, I am not that naive. Since I strive to be a decent person all 365 days of the year, "holiday cheer" is pretty useless to me.

I'm sending people e-cards this year and that's it. Last year I tried to make everybody happy and it blew up in my face.

If it wasnt for my daughter I wouldnt participate in Christmas at all.

I don't need a special day to show my loved ones that I care about them, and I certainly don't need to go out and spend tons of money to do it.

As it is, I have no choice, I have to celebrate it for my 12 year old and honestly the joy on her face makes it worth it for the time being. Shopping is the worst part but I only buy for her and a few other people. Everyone else I bake for which I find relaxing and feel means more because of the effort I put into it.

I also insist on a few hours through Christmas day for myself. alone. no negotiation.

...Dissing christmas totaly. First I don't have enough money to even buy my kids a birthday present after spending too much earlier on their other stuff needed so I think I'll just watch TV with my door closed and play Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament online. Or some coding on my Amiga.

The only advantage to Christmas that I can see is that it makes daytime drinking socially acceptable, and nighttime overindulgence expected.

Oh, and I get shirts where the sleeves end at mid-forearm.

A FESTIVUS FOR THE REST OF US!

It's more like 'ho-humbug' rather than 'bah, humbug'. Christmas loses something of its magic when you are an adult.

Well I'm thankful my immediate family wants none of. Why is it always some relative who never otherwise wants anything to do with us that makes the biggest deal about it? It's like, what does it matter when for the other eleven months we're forgotten- and now we're supposed to go crazy buying gifts for people who don't like us and we don't like them.

I've come to the conclusion that the holidays bring out the worst in most people. You want to see people for who they really are? Just wait until December. The last time we actually celebrated it, due to some lingering sense of social obligation I suppose, going out to buy gifts was an exhausting, traumatic nightmare. Never otherwise have I seen so many people so pushy. I remember my mother reaching out to grab the last of something on a shelf, and another mother literally bodyslammed her out of the way.

And traffic. There's a catastrophe in of itself. Yep, the house I live in has a pantry half the size of my bedroom, so we're stocked up on food and snacks like we're awaiting nuclear holocaust. I don't want to be anywhere near Temecula (nearest mall) until the middle of January.

However, I will say I do enjoy some of the festive foods that are only sold around the holi-daze. A variety of junk food laden with ginger and cinnamon (which I love), egg nog, Danish shortbread cookies, more egg nog, gingerbread coffee creamer, gingerbread, gingerbread Pop Tarts (greatest invention known to man besides french toast) and the possibility of more egg nog. I'm also quite fond of Godiva chocolate liquers and the annual family junk food binge involving homemade pumpkin pies, gingerbread playing cards (It's go-fish only when you pair the cards you eat them), kulich cake, and the ensuing Jagermeister shots.

Oh, and you want to see spine-tingling, blood-curdling horror? I had to work on New Year's Eve last year in then only grocery store (and therefor the ONLY place selling hard liquor) open until midnight for a fifty mile radius. Oh and there was only one cashier, my boss, and myself. I had to clean the meat dept, which means there was a line of drunks all the way to the produce department, and no one got carts for five hours. I ended up being there until nearly 2 am wrangling carts with my boss, because not only was the entire lot full of them, but some jerkoff turned every single one UPSIDE DOWN. I have never seen so much public drunk and disorderliness. It was a complete and utter CALAMITY.

I hate New Year's Eve.

I only buy gifts for my son. My parents are financially well off and don't need anything. My girlfriend and I make sizeable incomes and don't need anything. Christmas here started in September the day after Labor Day. I like Christmas because I'm going to have 2 1/2 weeks off. Lots of time to do nothing and go hunting with my dad and son. Other than that Christmas blows.

i despise Christmas as it is right now. relaxation, happiness and good moods replaced with consumers hell and the "buy, buy, BUY!" mentality. i love Christmas, i love the holiday season. but not when it starts in freaking October. originally, Christmas wasn't about virgin births, big men in red and shopping till you drop. it was about celebrating the fact that the circle of life was complete, and now the days started to get longer.
in my world, thats what Christmas is really about.

oh, and drinking like a slob and puking in garbage cans!