Ah . . . the Two Month Holiday

Well, the holiday's are essentially over, and I honestly couldn't be happier. It should be obvious to anyone by now that I made glasses to look through at the world, and Christmas is no exception.

First of all, why the hell do stores start putting out Christmas stuff before Halloween is even over. Am I the only one bothered by this? I am really starting to believe that society is finally lost its mind. That or it was shot point blank to the temple, either would start to explain things. Of course to go along with that madness, the music soon follows suit. Ignoring the fact that I would be perfectly fine not hearing another X-mas song for the rest of my days (although some of the parodies are quite amusing), it should be illegal for them to be put on the radio until at least December. Preferably, a week before. That would be plenty of time to get with the Spirit of things. Think about it, what other Holiday in our history takes up 2 months or more of our time to prepare for? I honestly don't know. This of leads into the true meaning of Christmas . . .

Spend Money!!

It's crazy the amount of money I have layed down for everyone, and I went the smart route (or Lazy depending on who you ask) and bought Gift Cards for almost everyone. Christmas time on my wallet is like a vampire finding a baby on their doorstep. So, what does one do? Not many options for this. I can continue to spend large amounts of cash during this time of year, or boycott the entire thing. Seemed like an easy answer to me at first. That was until I mentioned my plans to my other half. To fully explain this I have to mention one fact, I have done something (been big and small) for my Lady on every Christmas so far. I turns out that I had no idea how much joy she has gotten from that when I came to my decision. At that point I had to do the only thing that I could to keep her happy. Compromise. Not sure how that is going to work yet, but I will make it happen for her sake.

Next on my list of holiday criticisms, Santa. to be fair I will have to include the Easter Bunny into this rant. There may be more but I can not think of any others at this time. Having a symbol for things like a holiday is fine (even though X-mas has like 30), but why do people go out of there way to make their children believe that these fictional characters actually exist? It seems to me that it's nothing more than another foolish way to scare the kids to be "nice". Is it so hard to just tell the child the truth. "If your not good this year, than we're not going to get you anything for Christmas". Of course word it to your liking but I see no reason to lie to them. I am not saying that having an imagination is bad, just give it to them straight so they know at an early age the difference between Fantasy and Reality. I like the Idea, don't knock it till you've tryed it.

Now that I got that out, feel free to post that I am a Scrooge on the coments. Just remember that if It's true I am either the McDuck Scrooge, or Patrick Stuart's depiction. Maybe I should start a poll . . .