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This is the entry that seals my fate as a hardened cynic... with little or no redeeming value... It comes to December and everything changes.... to the world as we know it suddenly becomes a wonderful mix of dinners, parties and 'catching-up'.... never mind the whole Christmas thing.... December is fucked from the beginning.... the reason Christmas feels nice, is that its almost the end of December, you no longer have to do December things....
I will probably upset and annoy people with this rant..... so read on at your own risk......
It has been a while since I last vented at the world..... and this time I fucking mean it. I hate December. I really don't like the Christmas time type thing and for me New Years has always been overrated...
Firstly is the congregation of adults that emerges... you see them everywhere.... and I'm not talking about church services full of people who don't go the rest of the year or even believe.... they do it 'for the kids' or perhaps honestly, "just in case".... no, it isn't some mass exodus to the tax-havens we know as the modern church, but to coffee shops, restaurants, theme bars and the like.... So we adults, we happy many, can sit around and talk to our extended group of friends and friends-in-laws and R-less friends about all the things we've done during the year.....
You see the problem? If we had bothered to actually see these people during the year, we would not need to sit around and talk about what we'd been doing, because, we would already know.... and when you don't catch up with people, I generally don't care... that is not being harsh... it is just the truth.... so these little dinnerlets are just useless pandering to the culture of "we must catch up more"... and the dinners with these friends and friends-in-law(-in-law) are always at the most banal places where the establishment serves up lots of different types of mediocre. We could go to a good restaurant that serves good food of one type (be it Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Mexican, what have you...) but there is always the problem of so-and-so doesn't like <food type>..... grrrrrrrr oh and did I mention I have stomach cramps from crappy food today? well I do......
To the whole Christmas thing.... I'm not religious, in fact I could be anti-religious in my more self-righteous moments.... so the whole idea of Christmas therefore doesn't quite sit nicely with me... I don't mind the getting together with my friends for a bit of a party or whatever, and it even can be said, I like the family get together stuff.. generally they tend to be less stressful and fight worthy than the rest of the year, the lead up to Christmas can be bad family wise, but the actual event is lots of fun... but the gifts..... oh for fuck sake
Everyone asks what you want for Christmas, but you can't say what you want because that would be rude, because generally you want stuff other people can't afford or would even consider. I would not ask friends to buy me underwear, which no matter how mundane I still need it, it's just not done. What I'd like from everyone is bucket loads of cash... but that ain't on the cards either. So we search around for that something that makes us as the giver feel better... I dunno, I'm just sick of it all......
Update, powered by Irony Control™
Well it seems the deity of Irony wanted me to really hurt.... A trip to help the parentals with putting up Christmas decorations delivered me a bag of decorations and a tree, cut lovingly from my Parentals farm..... these given to me, they were expected to be assembled in the appropriate manner and be available to viewing when my parentals visit sunny Melbourne this week.......
So after bitching and moaning about Christmas (actually you guys didn't get the full tirade.... I forgot all the stuff about decorations and tinsel and the like when I put this entry up.... but you people are smart enough to realise what I would think of such things.......) I now am an owner of a tree with lights and bells and little wooden things....... still no tinsel..... so at least I'm still partly sane.
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