Let the Tinsel Charade Begin!!!

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Where did the year run away to, was I soused and so over-medicated, that I only rouse out of my slumber today, and found that it is only a couple days till Christmas. In a few sleeps, families all over the world will be celebrating the best way, they know how. By getting drunk, and unwrapping gifts they never really wanted and eating so much Turkey and fixings that they will have to go out on Boxing Day just to buy a new pair of pants. My advice would be to wear your stretchy (fat trap) pants when attending these kinds of Festivities. Most people, I know, either don’t have any living relatives, or they are too far away (believe me when I say, they aren’t complaining). Then there are the families that live close by, and they usually have nothing to do with each other, except for holidays and birthdays. The bottom line is, they really can’t stand each other. Maybe they only have these gatherings because their Mother started it many moons ago. Now that she has passed on, they still feel the need to keep up this tinsel draped charade. They never fight at family gatherings, but they feel the need to put up with each other, year after year, celebration after celebration. I ask myself, why do they do this? Could it be the loads of unwanted gifts that they will receive from each other? The many unwanted bars of soap, ties and socks. I guess, it comes down to tradition, and what one knows. I opted out of the whole farce quite a few years ago. I always hope that I will wake up and it will be 2008. New Years Eve is another bogus holiday, which I will cover in a later posting. My Mother lives close, my brother in snowy Alberta, my Father’s ashes sit in a pine box at my Mother’s place. I will go to my Mother’s house for Christmas breakfast. My cousin, Dave and his wife, Wendy are coming over to celebrate this occasion with us. Perhaps, we can sit around the pine box and talk about what an idiot my Father was. After all isn’t that why "Festivas" was invented, so you can air all of our grievances. Merry Festivas and Christmas!!!!