You gotta admit I've been good this year
Dec. 15th, 2011 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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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Date: 2011-12-15 05:35 pm (UTC)thank you for being there to receive this vent :)
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Date: 2011-12-15 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-17 02:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-17 07:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-16 12:02 am (UTC)and bell ringers should be the cargo.
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Date: 2011-12-16 02:19 am (UTC)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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Date: 2011-12-16 03:01 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2011-12-16 09:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-16 10:08 pm (UTC)Because this is the season of needing to stay warm, and I need my calories for the Feats of Strength!
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Date: 2011-12-16 10:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-16 10:57 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2011-12-16 11:14 pm (UTC)