Merry Christmas Everyone, or Happy Chrismahaunukwanzakah

Ok as a child I hated that line and I hated Tiny Tim, yeah cause I got called it in school. That’s all I ever heard around the holidays. And for future note, don’t call me Timmy , unless you have a brand on my butt! Another name I hate. In the words of one of my favorite cartoon characters “Call me Timmy and Die!: you get major bonus points if you know the original quote and who said it.

But today I thought I would talk about My Christmases growing up. I was the child that believed in Santa, my brother never really did, and it wasn’t till much later that I found out my mother threaded to beat him within an inch of his life if he told me the truth. Well not literally, but you know. When we moved into the main house that I grew up in we had not chimney, and I always wondered how Santa got in the house. This used to cause me great frustration, because he needed a chimney to come down. And trying to explain this to a 5 yo just didn’t work. I was convinced we needed to build a chimney so Santa can come to our house. But I was always talked about if I and Santa usually came and left many toys and presents.

The next thing that sorta confused me was that when we would go home to SC for Christmas, my cousins either lived in Texas for a while, or Virginia and Santa would come early. So of course you know with my devious mind I thought, well if he can come early for them he can come early for us and then forget he came to our house and come again. Well this didn’t go over very well, but hey you gotta try right.

Well, after Santa came, my brother would wake me around 3 AM and we’d go into the living room and see what Santa left us. Everything was laid out and of course se started playing right then with everything. This would eventually wake our parents who just went to bed and they would say go back to bed, this would last for another two hours then it’s like I can’t wait any longer and go right back at it.

As a kid I loved Christmas, the music, the season and everything. But especially the presents. But this would change. When I entered the workplace. My very first job was working at Toys R Us and Christmas there was pure hell. Granted we never had any “Must Have” toys that people fought over. But still, I never heard so many people complain. I mean why would you go pick out all your stuff for your kids on your lunch break and then complain that you can’t get ti done in an hour when 600 other people had the same idea? I’m no rocket scientist but wouldn’t you say, hey boss man, I gotta get my kids stuff, I’m going ot take longer then an hour. But the next job was at a mall and Black Friday was pure hell too. And seeing everyone shop and how greedy they were my Christmas spirit died. Even to this day, I think you should do unto others, rather then buy up everything in site for your greedy kids and make the world a better place. I’m not saying give everything to charity, but do something to make the Christmas of a child who wouldn’t have one. Or a family that wouldn’t. But you know the perfect example of greed this Christmas is the whole X Box 360, a few hundred bucks for a video game system that MS made only a few thousand and everyone went crazy over it. Let’s not get me started on MS, cause you know I think they did this on purpose. But camping out in parking lots and getting these is just ridiculous. I’m all for capitalism but I’m for helping people out too. .

One ironic thing through, I think I may have mentioned it before is, I love Christmas music, well not when radio stations play it from mid November till after Christmas, but when I want to listen to it. I probably have about 50 Christmas CDs and I love off beat Christmas music. Christmas Polka, Brady Christmas, and this years find is Captain and Tenniel. I was like NO WAY, but I still want the William Hung Christmas CD so bad, I gotta get it after Christmas somewhere. I meant to make Christmas CDs for my friends but I was just too lazy, and I spent all last night cleaning and Looking for my Elton John CD I lost, but it’s here somewhere. I gotta get this room in order and keep it that way. I have more posters then I can possibly frame or eve hang, so I thought that I may start framing them and giving them away to friends. But who knows.

Well Merry Christmas, and my day will be low key with family, just have to deal with my brother, yea what fun. And will call a few friends. And for those Jewish friends out there, Happy Hanukah, and my favorite holiday now Chrismahunukwwanzakah!