>I also don't like Christmas, but a lot of people look at me like I
>just killed their puppy when I say that.

I don't like Christmas either - overall it's my least favorite time of year. February is harder for me to get through (seasonal affective, you know), but December has the added annoyances of the shopping malls always being full and all the damn music and decorations pounding it home all the time that If You Don't Find This Time of Year Joyful, There's Something Horribly Wrong With You.

(On a tangent, does anyone else get that feeling of unreasonable anger when you're just trying to go to the mall in, say, the second week of December to get something you need for the house or something, and you can't park because of all the Christmas shoppers? I always get really torqued off, knowing it's stupid all the while, and wishing that there was a special parking section for "people who would be here anyway".)

My mother finds this all very upsetting; she's really into the Holiday Spirit thing and can't understand why I always dread the coming of December. (Next couple of years it's going to be even more annoying than usual, too, thanks to the damn Tolkien movies.)

Feh.

--G.
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