Now, I'm not an ebenezer (sp?) Scrooge! But I do have a problem with the holiday season. I just can't stand it. I hate the snow and the cold, and the snow and the cold, and I did I mention the snow and the cold??? I wasn't ment to live in colder climates. I don't know why my ancestors decided that Michigan was going to be a lovely place to settle down. Seriously, why couldn't they have decided that they wanted to travel several hundred more miles the west...why couldn't one of them say "Let us see what is on that island made by volcanos, were grass skirts and coconut bras are appropriate forms of dress." If that were the case perhaps I'd be bitching now because I live on and island where the sun shines all the time.... I doubt it.
I know I'll get this every where, no matter where I move, but I hate christmas advertisements. Christmas isn't portrayed as family togetherness anymore or coming together to celebrate the birth of Christ. It's all about stuff. How much you can buy, and how much you should buy. Why do we need a reason to buy gifts for people? Why do we need to buy someone a new lexus to prove to them how much we love them?? "Here I love you here's a new Lexus!" First of all, if I had money to buy a Lexus my bitch ass would not be buying anyone but myself a new Lexus.
Maybe the reason for my scroogy-ness is the fact that I have a job that pays in peanuts (and not real peanuts either those packing peanuts that are made of styrofoam) They don't pay enough for me to take a vacation and they sure as shit don't pay me enough to buy christmas presents.
So I say Bah humbug to the materialistc aspect of christmas.
Maybe one day I'll actually like the holiday season....from the beach of my ocean front property :0)
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