Christmas Grinch

Well my Christmas shopping is finished. It was actually amazingly fast considering I only bought one gift. My wallet is certainly a lot lighter now. Actually, to be perfectly honest I think it was vaporized on impact. Actually I still have one more to get. Some kind of english books for beginners. My department store has a bunch of low level books (Snoopy books with sort of a story) that I'm thinking of picking up.

I'm hoping Christmas will be fun! We shall see. Too many traditions being broken. First and foremost, working on Christmas Day! I realize we're in a country that doesn't consider it to be an important occasion other than being an opportunity to be even more materialistic than normal but when 99% of your workforce is Christian then you think they'd give you the day off! Such is the power of unions or lack thereof I guess.

Secondly, Christmas is a time to stay home! If you aren't in church or in a skating rink on Christmas Eve then you should be at home getting cozy and decorating the tree-not at some restaurant somewhere.

Finally you shouldn't know exactly what your Christmas presents are going to be. I've received packages from the family and Emily and I have no idea what is in them so not all is lost!

I thrive on constancy so we'll have to see how I fare with all these blasphemies going on around me. If the going gets tough I still have my secret weapon-A Muppet's Christmas Carol.