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Dec. 27th, 2007
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Dec. 27th, 2007 06:32 pmThe Holidays are over. Yay! Christmastime verklempfs me. Bad childhoods have that power, you know.
This year wasn't as bad. I decided Fuck It. No really, fuck it. I'd do the stuff I like: holiday shopping, gift giving (there is no bigger YAY than watching your nephew huggles a stuffed monkey you bought him), meals that end with pumpkin pie, and singing along to overwrought Xmas tunes, and I'd forget the rest. Let it slide. Pass it on by.
Of course, I had to do some crappy stuff. Work parties, family dinners, and receiving shitty gifts (Bounce dryer sheets, wtf). But I just pretended they were daily annoyances, not part of the season.
It worked! Christmas didn't kick me in the face this year! I even laughed off the dryer sheets-- at least it's a useful shitty gift. One year I got a weird straw-thingie that one is supposed to stab an orange with then suck out the sweet, sweet juices. And the rest of the shitty gifts had the good sense to be either regiftable or suitable for charity donations. Yay for the quick removal of shitty gifts. Yay for more room for the good gifts Moe gave!
This year wasn't as bad. I decided Fuck It. No really, fuck it. I'd do the stuff I like: holiday shopping, gift giving (there is no bigger YAY than watching your nephew huggles a stuffed monkey you bought him), meals that end with pumpkin pie, and singing along to overwrought Xmas tunes, and I'd forget the rest. Let it slide. Pass it on by.
Of course, I had to do some crappy stuff. Work parties, family dinners, and receiving shitty gifts (Bounce dryer sheets, wtf). But I just pretended they were daily annoyances, not part of the season.
It worked! Christmas didn't kick me in the face this year! I even laughed off the dryer sheets-- at least it's a useful shitty gift. One year I got a weird straw-thingie that one is supposed to stab an orange with then suck out the sweet, sweet juices. And the rest of the shitty gifts had the good sense to be either regiftable or suitable for charity donations. Yay for the quick removal of shitty gifts. Yay for more room for the good gifts Moe gave!