ok, i hate to be a scrooge, but let me just start with this: i don't like christmas.
i know, people think i'm crazy for that, but i just can't stand it. cheesey movies, crappy music, SANTA DOES NOT EXIST, total commercialism, kids think they have a right to be selfish lil "gimme gimme gimme!" brats--gah, the whole thing just annoys me! but what annoys me the most is that whole thing about "christmas is a time to be with family; it's a time to be surrounded by those who love you!"
talk about a contradiction! if i wanted to be surrounded by the people who love me, i would have spent the entire friggen break far from my house! not to say that i have a horrible family. it's just... well, we have our share of problems that NONE of us wanna deal with yet masochistically do nonetheless if nothing else, for the sake of "the holidays"
and here's where the blog gets REALLY angsty and annoying!:
all i hear is my brother whining about how much he can't stand being with my family. oh, the sound of that along with the door slamming behind him as he drives away to not be with us (lucky b*****d. why can't i have a car to leave too?!) then, of course, any typical awkward silence that follows the arrival of my grandparents is filled with us all yelling at my grandpa in attempts to get him to listen to us. while on paper that may sound rather comical, trust me, it gets old. then there are the wonderful sounds of over-excited kissing and political and scientific debates from my know-it-all sister with her know-it-all boyfriend who has now gotten comfortable enough with the family to prove that he is no less of a know-it-all then she is. now factor in the sounds of my mother crying because her depression reaches an all time high during the holidays, my dad bitching about how everyone in the house annoys the hell outta him, and you have the wonderful sounds of my home in the holidays. yup, it's the most wonderful time of the year.
thank god i have friends. thank god i have excuses to get outta my house most of the time. jeez, though, i don't think i'm ever gonna stop hating christmas.
 the_forgotten_thought · Wed Dec 29, 2010 @ 05:35am · 0 Comments |
