the weather outside is frightful interlude: damn holidays

Hey …

So lets start out , my gentlest of readers, with a general dislike for Christmas.
That’s not to say that I don’t appreciate the holiday as it sits in it’s way… celebration of the birth of a person who changed the face of the earth … or the flip side, a celebration of giving and human kindness. Rather I dislike the commercialism of it , and I know it’s not a new statement. But really, if I hear one more kid screaming that it simply must have one thing or another I will go postal and snap the little bastards neck. Does that seem overly harsh? Perhaps … but factor in the fact that I don’t actually find myself around children that much, I work in a bar and with an adult ….

I was never a fan of seinfeld , but I did like the festivus episode. And I will take an un- original page from that book … and while I am ripping pages from books… from the Hogfather by terry prachitt…

Hogswatch : the end of the year and beginning of the new year, a night ruled by the hog father…The Discworld's version of Father Christmas or Santa Claus. He wears a red, fur-lined cloak, and rides a sleigh pulled by four wild boars (or, in modern portrayals, cute pink piggies), Gouger, Rooter, Tusker and Snouter. In earlier times he gave households pork products, and naughty children a bag of bloody bones. Earlier than that, he was a winter god of the death-and-renewal kind. The modern version is a jolly toymaker, with vestiges of the earlier myths (such as his Castle of Bones, a vast palace of ice which has nothing notably bony about it, except for the suggestion of a protruding femur or scapula here and there) still clinging to him. ( thanks to wiki-pedia for that outline)

Yes , yes I understand it’s just a rip -off of the old pagan action, but since modern paganism has as much in common with it’s ancient ancestors as I have with a fig pudding.. I think I’ll just go with this version.

And to you all I wish a happy Hogswatch!

I have a tiny Charlie brown tree ( and the book that came with it ) presents for all, and a plan for a roast… reminding me of my celebration of “roast day” with JJ two years back.. We exchanged gifts and I ate a roast.. She did not being vegan, and very kind and understanding that I couldn’t let the day go by ( she was also Ba’hai )
There is a lot of snow I think I need to shovel my balcony…
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