chionos
12-26-2011, 03:56 AM
Well Christmas is almost officially over, though luckily it's just a week till the next big party, New Years. I recorded a little Christmas song for EoFF earlier at my daughter's insistence that I'll share in a bit, but I've noticed that as I get older holidays seem to come and go with less of an impact on me emotionally. Yeah it's just part of the whole growing up process, life in general speeds up and all that, but watching other people my age or older during the holidays leads me to believe that either I'm getting older at an accelerated pace or there's just a helluva lot of faking-it going on.
I feel like bitching about Christmas and other such commercialized holidays, but it's not really the commercialization that is bothering me, it's the temporary act of celebration which has existed in much less bastardized form (the Pagan nature holidays) for thousands of years. Why is it we're not capable of maintaining an appreciation for certain things year-round?
I was thinking about how ridiculous Christmas is--the celebration of Jesus' birth out of context of his life as a whole which is really a farce in any case since the holiday was stolen from a Roman holiday that promoted drunkenness, nude singing, and rape among other things--and it made me think about how silly it is to celebrate myself only once a year. Why is it only on my birthday that I get celebrated? I'm an amazing human being 365 days a year and this coming year I even have to work an extra day for free, so my New Year's resolution is to celebrate myself every damn day. And in order to not be a hypocrite, I'm starting today instead of waiting till Jan. 1, 2012.
You're a fucking amazing person, Chris.
:blush: Why thank you, I think so too, but I don't think I'm supposed to say it out loud.
So anyway, I don't have a clue what this was all about. I think I hit the eggnog too hard or the eggnog hit me too hard. Something hit something really hard and now I'm here.
so anyway, here's the song I sang earlier for you sexy bitches. Unfortunately, I wasn't drunk at the time so I have no excuse for how terrible it is.
Jingle Bells (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53563334/jingle%20bells.mp3)
I feel like bitching about Christmas and other such commercialized holidays, but it's not really the commercialization that is bothering me, it's the temporary act of celebration which has existed in much less bastardized form (the Pagan nature holidays) for thousands of years. Why is it we're not capable of maintaining an appreciation for certain things year-round?
I was thinking about how ridiculous Christmas is--the celebration of Jesus' birth out of context of his life as a whole which is really a farce in any case since the holiday was stolen from a Roman holiday that promoted drunkenness, nude singing, and rape among other things--and it made me think about how silly it is to celebrate myself only once a year. Why is it only on my birthday that I get celebrated? I'm an amazing human being 365 days a year and this coming year I even have to work an extra day for free, so my New Year's resolution is to celebrate myself every damn day. And in order to not be a hypocrite, I'm starting today instead of waiting till Jan. 1, 2012.
You're a fucking amazing person, Chris.
:blush: Why thank you, I think so too, but I don't think I'm supposed to say it out loud.
So anyway, I don't have a clue what this was all about. I think I hit the eggnog too hard or the eggnog hit me too hard. Something hit something really hard and now I'm here.
so anyway, here's the song I sang earlier for you sexy bitches. Unfortunately, I wasn't drunk at the time so I have no excuse for how terrible it is.
Jingle Bells (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53563334/jingle%20bells.mp3)