You gotta admit I've been good this year

[urbpan]

As much as I'm trying to be calmly disengaged from "the holiday season" (rather than simmering with rage, as is my tradition), I have to say something:

The concept of "shopping days," specifically counting them down--marking time with days left to buy something ANYthing for everyone on "your list" until the arbitrary but very sacred date selected, is unbelievable offensive to me. It's the last thing about the season that unreasonably infuriates me.

That and Salvation Army Bell-Ringers.

Carry on, Peace on Earth y'all.

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[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

i don't mind bells and i don't mind holidays, but i hate it that the salvation army bell-ringers are ringing bells to GET ME TO DONATE MONEY TO THEIR RELIGION. and then they wish me a happy HOLIDAY IN THEIR RELIGION. give me a freakin' break.

thank you for being there to receive this vent :)

[roaming.livejournal.com]

Yep, pretty much that. Angels we have heard on high, tell us to to out and buy.

[flyingwolf.livejournal.com]

love your user pic. Can I steal it?

[roaming.livejournal.com]

Of course! I did. :-)

[bosoxmom.livejournal.com]

I like my countdowns to have rockets going off to space when you hit zero.

and bell ringers should be the cargo.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

the bell ringers are like deer ticks. just things to be avoided to me.

oddly, i've given almost no thought to xmas this year. the early snow, and other things have kept me distracted.

365x48 shopping via internet has kept any need to think about shopping at all, except for food and needfuls. having bought less this year than last has helped too.a

nearly eliminated also is the urge to indulge in one of my favorite sports: going to the mall the days before the FINAL DAYS and watching the zoo, so to speak. ah, such lovely plumage :)

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[elainetyger.livejournal.com]

I love it when they have the present-buying-urging, especially when they say Christmas instead of Holidays. Because facebook has shown me how many more of my friends are freakin insane than I would have suspected, what with all the militancy about honoring Christ and remembering the reason for the season. Let them have the commercialism and the religion all wrapped up together.

I want to point to the sky and tell them that the reason for the season is the goddamned sunlight returning again and people being happy and celebrating that their Seasonal Affective Disorder will recede. That would probably go over even worse than telling them that Thanksgiving is all about getting idiots to behave themselves after the Civil War was officially over.

Oh, and the Salvation Army bells are a blessed relief (pardon the expression) because they drown out the yearround cultlike clipboard harpies wanting to know whether I have a minute for the environment.

[half-double.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear. That is all.

[shellynoir.livejournal.com]

I've been buying desserts, eating half, then wrapping the other half and leaving it in the refrigerator.

Because this is the season of needing to stay warm, and I need my calories for the Feats of Strength!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I've thought of holding a Festivus event (for the zookeeper association), but I think the Airing of Grievances would hurt too many feelings.

[shellynoir.livejournal.com]

What about Grievances With The World At Large, kind of like a Seinfeld comedy routine? For example, every time I check my Yahoo Mail there is a big picture of Kim Kardashian linked to some news article I'm supposed to read, sitting there, staring me in the face, like The Eye Of Mordor.

Another grievance I have is that my sentences tend to be really long and run on.

Another grievance I have is that when I go through the car wash, yet another paint chip is taken off the hood of my car. Car washes should have a "gentle" cycle.

Also, people continue to stand on escalators, no matter how much I hum the "waiting" tune from Jeopardy.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

What is the deal?