Merry Christmas!!!!

[tree]

Happy [insert "belated" or "early", as applicable] December holiday time to everyone!

That gave me an idea.
So I made this>

Generator Land: An Appropriately Generic December Holiday Greeting Generator

 

[Desiree W]

Hoping everyone had a Merry Christmas. I had a relaxing day at home with my immediate family.

 

[kay]

I didn't want to start a new thread just to say that I actually had a good Christmas so I'm saying it here. It is because of my boyfriend, he gave me a wonderful day and has taught my mom and sister how to have a good Christmas, too. I'm so happy to have met him. He is the friend I never imagined having and I hope next time I'm feeling miserable I will find and read this post and feel better. If your Christmas doesn't involve shopping for eel in a can you may be missing out on a lot of fun.

 

[pjcnet]

So the main day is over yet again, was it truly worth literally months of build up? Well maybe when you're a young child as back then you can often look forward to lot of presents and time off school, but as an adult to me it's just a normal day, except there's not much to actually do with everything closed.

Oh well in literally 10 months time or even less it will start all over again and we are often celebrating or building up to Christmas approx a 6th of the year, I've even known the marketing build up start from as early as October 1st with Christmas gifts already appearing in shops, counting until New Year that makes it a quarter of the year which to me is just ridiculous.

Soon it will be the sad "anticlimax" again of everyone just wishing everyone a "Happy New Year" even after any brief New Year's Eve celebrations (the last bash if you do anything special which I don't), not that there was any climax to begin with for myself. Then on January 2nd it will be truly all over and people going back to work will still have to tolerate all the "Happy New Year"s while having to politely reply back when they're truly thinking, "what's happy about it?", they're back at work with little to look forward to, often after using the last of their annual leave to take the whole of Christmas week off with no money left (and probably debts) with still around 4 weeks to go until they even get paid again and in many countries they still have the worst of the Winter to get through.

And how many people get asked "did you have a nice Christmas?" when the true answer is "no I had a s**t time", but you have to answer, "yes thanks" or at the very least something like, "not bad thanks" anyway just because it's polite in an NT world, so what is the point in asking it in the first place when people have to lie anyway?

Finally why do so many people leave their Christmas decorations up until twelfth night on the 5th January? Who wants to see all the bright flashing lights saying "Merry Christmas" with Santa's sleighs Etc. by then? Even as a child when I enjoyed Christmas I hated being reminded of it when it was all over and I was back suffering school or at least just about to be, it was like a kick in the teeth. At least my Mum and Dad used to always take the decorations down on January 2nd, but even as a child Christmas was all over to me once Boxing Day was finished as that's when I got the last of my presents from other family members. It was all downhill after that, New Year never really meant that much to me and after Boxing Day I started counting down the days wishing I had longer left before having to go back to school.

 

[Sid Delicious]

I always assumed it was because people hated the cold, grey, dark months of winter so everyone tries to drag out christmas as long as possibly so there is less of a gap until spring.