Bah...HUMBUG!

This year for christmas i've felt like such a scrooge, because i really don't like the whole holiday to begin with, and then with everybody around me, getting so excited about it...it's almost more than i can take. People everywhere are wishing me merry christmas (even with all the "holiday" bullshit that the government is trying to dig up about all the other freaking holidays that are celebrated at the same time of the year), but i don't really care. It doesn't bother me when others wish me a merry christmas, cuz usually they are doing it from the warm part of their heart i.e. the really mean it, so that doesn't bother me. So all this "holiday" vs. chistmas bullshit i think is just one step too far. Because here i am one of the biggest humbugs ever, who really almost said bah humbug to somebody who wished me a merry christmas, and it doesn't bother me if they still call the tree in times square, new york a christmas tree. When somebody happily wishes me a merry christmas, I simply put on my best fake smile and wish them a merry christmas as well. I could be rude and tell them happy yule to you too, or oh yeah, well happy channakkah to you as well. But i don't! and i'm one the most bitter people around these days when it comes to holiday cheer. I'm upset that I can't work on Christmas Day because both of my jobs are closed, i really wanted to make the money. Who else would say that? I'm half expecting to get visited by the three ghosts tonight as i sleep. My friend Ron replied, when I told him that a few weeks ago though, that "yeah, but you wouldn't be afraid of them, you'd just be like, ok let's go...you're gonna take me to see my past huh? alright let's get a move on." The funny thing is, I probably would too. "Hey what's up? So this is my grave huh? Wow, I die young...cool headstone though."

But at least I'm not the only humbug this year...I've found that several of my friends are feeling very humbuggy too....So here's the links...just so i'll be in good company. There's my friend Gaelin who's pissed off about some of the same Christmas things as me here , and then there's my other friend who's made up his own holiday story, which i love, and he calls (and am probably gonna post one of my own here soon...got a good idea already) the true meaning of christmas here and then there's also my goth friend's idea of how christmas should really be, and though it's not a humbug, I felt inclined to include it because it doesn't take the traditional view of christmas that somebody else wrote called Twas the night before gothmas and then my friend matt, whom I love dearly, even more so now that he's pissed about christmas, who is just as humbuggy as i am.... with this bulletin . (ok this one only works if u have a myspace account, sorry). ok for those that don't have myspace here's what it said

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Subject:	Chrismas Cheer
Body:	If any of you post any of that cheer crap in my comments I'm liable to go ballistic!!! Have a nice snowy season of sleep, death, cold, freezing hypothermactic bliss... yes I made that word up... I can do that... :p

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so now all that said, here's why i hate this holiday season. Cuz it's only a bastardization of the pagan holiday Yule. Yule was the time of year when pagans would wrap gifts for each other in brightly colored paper and decorate their house with small colored lights, and celebrate togetherness and the rebirth of the god/goddess who brings light back to the earth. They also decorate a "yule" tree. Here's a link. Also, I have another site, If ya'll reading are so inclined, I don't like this one as much, cuz i hate the sponsor (Wicca 101, how lame! but the info is good) Yule celebration traditions. So, I guess that's enough ranting for now, I've said what i wanted to say, and shown what i wanted to show...and if y'all out there still don't get the point of why, as a witch, I hate christmas in general, then u weren't paying attention and therefore, u dont' matter to me.