Inspirational holiday season. Why is it inspirational you say? No, it isn't because Saddam was captured. (WhoopDee freekin Doo. It just means more death, destruction, and thoughts of world domination....I'm not sympathizing with Saddam. I am just saying that people need to pay attention in history class.) It isn't the music. Definitely not the music. The tree? presents? the endless bell ringing by volunteers of the largest army on earth? No. I don't know if I could pin point what exactly it is. The wind is blowing a little harder and a little cooler. People are more pleasant (attitudes should be like this all year round, not just for 2 weeks during December, sheesh.) Those stupid radio shack commercials are playing, people buy stupid reindeer antlers for their pets. You get the gist of it. Xmas (which is what i refer to Christmas as because it long ago stopped being Christmas and started being Xmas or Capitalist day if you would prefer) is just a crazy time of year. My mom starts singing and cooking like some crazed Betty Crocker, my dad constantly rearranges the ornaments on the tree mumbling something about it being a "monk thing" when we really all know it is just obsessive compulsive behavior. Carefully planning xmas dinner so that the family members you can stand will be there and the other ones you will have convienently fogotten to call. Keeping the crazed cats from ripping open every present under the tree which they have already eaten half of and climbed the other half leaving it looking like a sad shrubbery. Yeah, xmas is great.
People were surely not in the xmas spirit this afternoon when i went to the post office. Perhaps there is some sort of odd time warp there and it is some unhappy time, like August or September.
You know what? Video games.....