It's that time once again....
Nov. 30th, 2009 07:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hkellickThe Holidays are a decidedly mixed bag for me. Have been for a long time.
I despise how.. fake certain Winter Holidays have become. Especially Christmas (Hannukah's got that weird thing where we know it isn't a major holiday, but we suffer from holiday envy, I think.) I hate that particular piece of Americana where people imagine they can turn their family and household into something out of a Norman Rockwell picture, no matter how much money it takes (and whether or not they have it or not) or how nuts it makes them.
And yet, Christmas means the world to my wife and her family and they try to inject a little bit of holiday cheer into my life a little bit of a time, including my wife slaving over a stove once a year making sure I get proper Hannukah Latkes (because there are very few traditions around Hannukah that are meaningful to me, due to what we had when I grew up, but Latkes was one of them.)
It isn't that I'm not appreciative to them for spending the time, effort and, yes, money, but.. it's like trying to thaw a glacier with a hair dryer. For each small meaningful gesture from those around me, there's a world of fake and nuttery and just... holiday craziness.
I don't know that there's much else to say. I'm going to close my eyes, hold my nose and see if I can't get through the madness without getting TOO annoyed this year...
I despise how.. fake certain Winter Holidays have become. Especially Christmas (Hannukah's got that weird thing where we know it isn't a major holiday, but we suffer from holiday envy, I think.) I hate that particular piece of Americana where people imagine they can turn their family and household into something out of a Norman Rockwell picture, no matter how much money it takes (and whether or not they have it or not) or how nuts it makes them.
And yet, Christmas means the world to my wife and her family and they try to inject a little bit of holiday cheer into my life a little bit of a time, including my wife slaving over a stove once a year making sure I get proper Hannukah Latkes (because there are very few traditions around Hannukah that are meaningful to me, due to what we had when I grew up, but Latkes was one of them.)
It isn't that I'm not appreciative to them for spending the time, effort and, yes, money, but.. it's like trying to thaw a glacier with a hair dryer. For each small meaningful gesture from those around me, there's a world of fake and nuttery and just... holiday craziness.
I don't know that there's much else to say. I'm going to close my eyes, hold my nose and see if I can't get through the madness without getting TOO annoyed this year...
