Though I don't celebrate Christmas - I often tell people who ask me why that I am not a Christian, & I don't have children, so there's not a lot of participating for me in the holiday - I do remember how wonderful it was when I was a child (a childhood, by the way, in which Santa seemed a hell of a lot more important than Jesus ever did) & I understand that it's a good idea to have a time that you can spend with your family, because that's important for most of us.
This year I made my wife go to California to spend Christmas with her mother, & I think I even convinced her to visit her father. It's after five pm on Christmas Day & my own mother hasn't even called yet. That would bother her if she were in my place, but I liked spending three hours on the radio this morning, & I liked sleeping through most of the day (although I did catch a cold this week - my first one this year, I believe - & I caught it from being in a house with small children, who are sickness incubators). The wife is getting on a plane & will be home in time for boxing day when, I hope, we get a chance to go at it again in the ring - she luckily ko'd me in the third round last time. She distracted me with flirting.
I do love Christmas carols. Like television theme songs & advertising jingles & Saturday morning "educational" songs, they figure prominently in my childhood. I do a radio show about them every year! So I enjoy some aspects of the season. Though I don't buy anything, or give gifts, or spend time with family, or believe any of the myths & superstitions associated with the holiday, there is something nice about it, & I hope you are having fun doing whatever you are doing on Christmas Day!
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