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Don’t get me wrong, I don’t always dislike Christmas. There’s just moments when I realise that the stress I’m feeling is largely due to Christmas; it’s unpleasant.

A majority of the people I celebrate Christmas with don’t give a rats bottom who Christ is.
Buying and giving presents is only fun when you find something really great [...]

Americans have Black Friday (which I only heard of this year!); in Australia we have Boxing Day sales. Perhaps they’re in America too, but we don’t have Thanksgiving, so there’s no post-Thanksgiving-holiday sales.
Actually Boxing Day is a public holiday: only the main city stores are open for the sales. Thank goodness for that – I [...]

Here’s wishing you all a Merry Christmas! Hope it’s full of joy and peace, not stress and road rage.
Check it out: even my phone (using the Everchanging theme) knew it was Christmas! Totally cool.
I hope that you also get a chance to pay some mind to what Christmas is about. Sometimes I wonder [...]

The Christmas Tree
Most think that the Christmas tree originated in Germany earlier than the 17th Century.
This tree is possibly a descendant of the Paradise tree, which was used in the Paradise play, which was performed as a reminder of Adam and Eve’s fall from Eden and the promise that humans would one day be restored [...]

Today I went to the doctor about my cough and my ear. They were very busy, they wanted me to come back at 2 (and hour and a half away) and when I came back then I waited for another half hour. In the intervening time I tried to do a bit of Christmas shopping [...]