The Christmas Spirit and the Nit Picking Things I Do for the Holidays

Yes, it seems the entire world is covered with a veil of snow every time the Christmas season comes. It’s the time or celebration where nothing should go wrong or must go wrong that will try to dampen your spirits. If you think this way, you’re either an 8 year old or a really naïve adult to the point of absurdity.

People will tell you that Christmas can be the loneliest and the saddest time of the year. I wouldn’t blame them. Fact is, it can be more than that because Christmas, is a lot of things other being merry. It is about putting all the stress in one, where all people panic to buy at least one gift. Talk about all the busy shoppers about. Indeed! Grabbing items off the shelf and pushing grocery carts and hauling next off to your parked car. And before you get home, you need that Christmas tree.

I’m not a pessimist about Christmas. I ain’t no Grinch either. There are just some things that I find unusual or odd about certain things in celebration of Christmas that I just don’t get. It’s like trying to understand a complicated printing service that I will just not get no matter I try.

So I give up people. I will not try to understand the silliness, the absurdity of things that occur when the season comes. Instead, I will share with you my own list of things that I just want to know but I’m afraid to ask.

1.    Why do people always make their own 12 Days of Christmas Song? What does the song mean anyway? I remember Janice Dickinson’s commercial about it, promoting her fledging modeling agency and all. I have to give it to her, it was gutsy but it was not original.

2.    What does a model’s snow angel look like? They’re so thin, it’s like a discrepancy that if they fall on the snow and made snow angels that are similar to yours, it makes you think you are either thin or a miracle just happened.

3.    Home Alone 1 and 2 and maybe even 3 are your classic movies this season. No matter the millions of movies made in our entire history, they just have to present these film like you have to watch another film about Christmas. Macaulay Culkin was really adorable here in a Dennis the Menace sort of way, but really, do you want to give your kids any more ideas?

4.    Noisiest time of the year. Sometimes, when you think of just easing into a quiet and relaxing Christmas night, you just can’t plain do it. You have to go to a party or entertain guests, watch the children, sneak down their toys and more.

5.    The people I take most pity on during Christmas are not only the homeless, but that guy in the red fat suit, talking to children in malls and setting them down on his lap.

6.    This is just the best time for people to ask you, “Have you gained weight?” Could the season be more painful?

7.    Couldn’t the neighbors put more lights on their house?! I mean really, why must the house look a theme park? Why oh why?

I could go on and on about the things that I just find as blah during Christmas. I’m sure it’ll rev up as the days get shorter and shorter to the big night. I’m sure you have your own set of things to pick on during this season, so go ahead. Be merry and them.