It's the crap, crappiest time of the year...With lots of cash blowing....And too much mall going

Christmas is my least favorite holiday. There alright, I said it. I'm too tired to write anything coherent so just let me babble out stuff in a stream of consciousness and maybe I'll come back later and edit this to something worthwhile.

-It's a fake holiday. Jesus wasn't born on December 25th people. And nothing we traditionally do celebrates his birth. Even Easter has ruined the idea of celebrating his resurrection. It is supposedly some Christian thing but really it is as pagan as Halloween or any other thing like that. If it matters to you. Which is why I like to type it as "xmas" in my family and personal correspondence. 'Cause it has nothing to do with Christ.

-It is a lot of work! Lights, decorations, the whole tree thing, buying and shipping and wrapping presents. And unless you live here, dealing with horrible weather on top of it.

-If you want to give me a gift, do it on my birthday, or just for the heck of it. May is a much more amenable month for doing something fun than December any year.

-Christmas has got to be the most high pressure emotional holiday of them all. Who really likes that? Not me.

Now, I do have happy childhood memories of xmas. I almost always got what I wanted. But as time went on I was just less and less enamored with the whole thing. And then a few years being very sick on xmas day hasn't helped either. I just don't like it. Xmas doesn't make me feel as good inside as 4th of July, Thanksgiving or my birthday. Which by the way are my 3 favorite holidays.

I'm actually happy I get to be in the hospital the week before xmas and maybe on THE day as well. No tree, no lights, no staring at people opening gifts to detect a faint flicker of them feigning excitement at a gift I bought but they don't really like. That sort of thing. And so finding a movie where Santa is basically the bad guy and it is from the land of my ethnicity, Scandinavia, actually did give me something to feel good about this xmas season.

Watch at your own risk: