Current mood:	cynical
Current music:	Cher - "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)"

this is how we do it
abc family is counting down to the 25 days of xmas. they are counting down to the countdown to xmas.

halloween and thanksgiving might as well just stop existing officially. everything from september to january is "the xmas season" these days, and i swear it gets worse every year.

don't get me wrong, i love [winter holiday] as much as the next asshole... but seriously. there was a time when the xmas season didn't start until after thanksgiving. i promise, it was like that once. i even remember it myself, sometimes, on those cold winter nights in early december when i'm already way too sick of xmas carols because i've been hearing them for the past two-and-a-half months.

the really sad thing is that we all know it can only go downhill from here. i know i'm not the first to say it, but i think it bears repeating; for a time that's supposed to be about love, giving, and togetherness, the holiday season is considerably rife with selfish douchebags. people actually act even worse this time of year than they normally do. yet for some reason they still expect more... i don't think that's how it works.

me? i always put my change (and sometimes my $1 or $5 bill(s)) in the salvation army bucket when i leave a store. i'm no fucking star pupil or whatever, but i won't lie -- i do give myself credit for that. because it's more than most people do for anyone else all year.