lurkette

I just saw a display of Christmas candy at the grocery store. THE GROCERY STORE!!! I can sort of understand retail stores like Target and WalMart putting Christmas things out the fricking day after Halloween - they gotta make a buck somehow and extending the "holiday preparation" season is as reasonable, if cynical, a method as any. But the grocery store? Who the fuck is having holiday parties already? We're still 4 weeks from thanksgiving.

I just don't get it. I love the traditions and presents are always nice, but it's gotten so blown out of all proportion that we now prepare for it for 2 fucking months!?! No wonder people get depressed both before and after the holidays. What one day, or even a whole season, can live up to this kind of hype?

This year we're not doing presents. Instead, my whole family is flying from Minnesota to Utah, where Ratbastid's family lives, and we're going to sing the fricking Whoville song and eat roast beast. I'm sick and tired of the whole parade and I'm opting out of the commercial side of things.

Does this bother anybody else or am I just being overly-sensitive?

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