Here we are, knee deep into the holiday "cheer", just a scant amount of days before ol' fat-ass leaps down the chimney and regales all the good boys and girls with loads and loads of gifts galore. Then there will be the kids tearing apart their gifts while at the same time screaming at the top of their lungs and running around in a sugar induced sense of spastic hysteria.Ahhh... Xmas.
Lets face it folks, Xmas is strictly for two types of people... 1) The people who are wealthy enough to not have to worry about Xmas doing serious damage to their financial stability, and 2) The church going faithful. Now, I'm certainly not Donald Trump and I haven't been to church in years, unless you want to count funerals, baptisms etc. So pardon me if Xmas isn't exactly that big on my list. As you all should know, I'm a Halloween man myself. And I'm still coming down off of that high. Also, the prospect of getting an Xbox 360 for Xmas this year looks bleaker and bleaker. So basically, some spoiled little bastage, who's father is probably some corporate leader and is responsible for a bunch of lay-offs this Xmas season, is living in Yuppieville and will be getting his video game counsel and stocking full of games and ol' Zangz will be sitting there with a bunch of new socks. Grumble Grumble Grumble......
I know, I know. There is a "reason for the season" as I recall the 80's hair band Stryper used to sing (hey, didn't they dress like bumble bees?). Let's just say I won't go into some diatribe on my personal religious beliefs and leave it at that.
Call me a Grinch or a Scrooge all you want, but at the end of the day Xmas just blows! It allows those that are blissfully happy to be even happier and those that are down in the dumps, lonely and financially strapped to feel like pure crapolla. 'Nuff said!
So what good things do I have to say about this time of year?
- I am happy to say that all my Xmas shopping is done and over. Now all I have to worry about is wrapping the buggers. I am quite pathetic at this. Relatives and friends know when they've gotten a gift from Zangz as the wrapping is all disjointed, catywhompus and half-assed. Hey, I do my best!
- I have also been able to take a couple of days off to unwind from a busy couple of work weeks. So I'm laying back, doing my blog here on a Friday afternoon after sleeping most of the morning away. This afternoon I'll wrap gifts while watching one of the Lord of the Rings movies.
- One of my favorite beer companies has come out with a winter lager that is always quite scrumptious this time of season.
- There's going to be a holiday party coming up that I annually attend that should be a rollicking good time. There's going to be a chance to auction off cruddy Xmas gifts we receive with play money we win at contests throughout the evening. Which is great since I'll have a ton of socks to unload.
I'm going to have to get going now as I've been trying to publish this post at the same time, apparently, that Blogger is doing some sort of work on it's server and going from a beta version of this website to a final version and I'm having all kinds of problems posting this friggin' thing. Hopefully they'll get their act together and I'll be back for more grumbling at a latter time.
God I hate Xmas!!!!
Zangz McScrooge.
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