Xmas 2009

So there is that time of the year again when people simply go mad.
Apparently it used to be called Christmas. Now it is called Xmas, or maybe even Commercemas. There is nothing Christian about Xmas anymore, is it?
Everybody gets stressed - I need to write and send the cards, I must find a present for grandma, I need to get the turkey etc etc.
It is simply depressing, this whole affair, you know. In every single shop you squeeze into you can hear christmassy music blaring, there are interminable queues everywhere, and the decorations some properties are adorned with easily fall into the realm of distasteful. (Joe Blogg has got the most decorations on his house, by the way - blow up Santa, fairy lights, sleigh with 4 reindeer, and a snowman....)
I want to ban Xmas. It is a disaster. It is soul destroying. It is blasphemy.
I decided to work this Xmas. And when I don't work, will sleep. Xmas will not happen for me. Perhaps next year it will be officially extinct, how many sleeps till then, ho ho bloody ho!!