There are 2 types of Christmas. Christmas and CHRISTMAS.
Christmas is warm. It is all about fun and santa. It invites you and is all about cookies and lovely tinkly things. You sit around the TV that's been decorated with Christmas lights eating crusty rolls, and is always celebrated with a christmas party in a pub surrounded by golden things in one of those booths with a bottle of champaign on every table on ice (Which the kids nick... the ice, not the champers). The TV has nice original stories on it. The radio plays songs a nice mixture of songs that dont over do it. and Christmas morning is getting a selection box, eating all the sweets other than the crunchie (Which you fob off to the nearest brother). Christmas starts when YOU want it to and builds up to the big day, and is a black forest gateau with real white cream and cherries you can clearly recognise ate cherries.
CHRISTMAS is cold. It is Evil. It is SLADE ON REPEAT. It is every shop you walk into playing "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day". CHRISTMAS starts on November 25th in full on mode and is a total sell out. It is a money grabbing monster you get nothing back from with no real spirit. It is getting something really pants instead when you'd really appreciate getting nothing more than that peice of poundland christmas based item like a tie or socks (Or in my case a T-shirt i can only wear at Christmas) when to be honest they could have put that money into MAKING a christmas card with proper love attached. It's Chitty chitty bang bang, Oliver!, Wonderful life, Waterbabies and Christmas film marathons on EVERY CHANNEL. It's something you drown in because if you don't drown in it people ask where your christmas spirit is. There is hardly no love involved, just what you're going to get, driven by heartless media and retail. It's exactly what it says on the tin - CHRIST - Which is what you say when you open a present someone gives you, and MAS - Mass sellout. Everyone goes over the top. And this is what i cant handle because it ruins the whole thing.
So if i retreat to building a tent in the garden or switching on the Wii to get away from it then it's getting a bit much for me.
Gotta Go!
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