Christmas Is Stupid 2

Last year I bloviated about Christmas. For the fun of it I will post it again as it still reflects my general feelings toward Christmas:

Call me scrooge, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, or your favorite Christmas villain of all time. I don't care. Christmas just gets in the way most of the time anyway. I have things to do, messages to preach, and money I would rather spend on myself (at least I would get what I wanted that way). bah humbug!!!

What is it with Christmas? Why did I see Christmas lights up before Halloween this year? I can't even have thanksgiving (a truly great holiday) without it being ruined by Christmas music and images of Santa in lights. Going to Target or Walmart only makes things worse with their mass marketing of a holiday that doesn't even resemble the real Christmas story.

I am no longer safe!! I must hibernate until New Years!!

Maybe this seems a little over the top, but why do we have to sing the same songs every year. Isn't there any new Christmas songs we can do? If someone sings Joy to the World, Jingle Bells, or Rudoph the Red Nosed Rain Deer one more time I might fall into a great big depression. Maybe they should have open season of deer with red noses!!

Let's be real, Christmas isn't about Jesus anymore, it's about companies mass marketing to kids so they can bug there parents about the latest and greatest toy until mommy and daddy spend the kids college fund in order to get it for them (that makes a lot of sense, "my kid isn't very edumacated, but she had great toys growing up!!"). Besides if you buy your kids a BB Gun you might get put in jail for child abuse. If Christmas were about Jesus there wouldn't be all this pressure to buy, buy, buy!!!!!!

I have had enough, I am boycotting Christmas this year(when my wife and kids aren't around). I am not decorating (until my 8 year old and my 2 year old tell me to). I am definitely not going to watch any Christmas movies (really, I won't do that, they can watch without me...... Ok, maybe one of the Tim Allen movies because they are sort of funny.) I guess that means I am going to have to stay away from every store on the face of the planet and stop listening to the radio, but I think I can do that (thank BP for pay at the pump).

OK, I need to go drink some coffee before I loose it (I am not putting candy canes or some kind of Christmas spice in it either!!!!!!!!) I can't even get a normal mocha at the local coffee shop, it has to be a HOHO Mocha or FALALatte (talk about messing with people who have dyslexia, there should be a law against stuff like that).