Happy Kristmas and merry secular new year
Coming off two straight weeks of family, first my wife's for Christmas and then mine for new years. Goooooood Fucking god, man. I just need to have a little fucking down time. Let me catch my goddamn breath. At one point, I found myself going to the bathroom just to get the fuck away from everyone before I lept through the skylight, impaling myself on the banister.
You might think with the amount of drugs I ingested over the past few weeks (good lord, my brother-in-law and I had a medicine chest that would have made Belushi blush) would have made it more tolerable, so I am left to shudder at the thought of how I might have fared had I tried to take this all on sober.
Funny, I love my family and my wife's family and enjoy myself when I'm with them. It's just that I don't want to spend five consecutive days mostly indoors with anyone. Ever. Maybe this is god's way of punishing me for marrying outside of the faith. Christmas used to be chinese food and a movie. Now it's a whole fucking production. You Goyim...Why?
Christmas = buying shit no one needs with money you don't have for people you don't like. Please explain the madness.
Anyway, I just wanted to weigh in on New Year's with a couple questions/comments:
Who's new year is this? It doesn't feel like a new beginning so much as a different number to write on my checks.
September feels like a new beginning (c'mon, 13 years + college etc. the September to June calendar is seared into our psyches). Jewish new year is in september or October (depending on the year). Chinese new year is usually in February. Jesus wasn't born on Christmas or 2006 years ago. So why do we give a shit about new years????
Besides, it just so happens to be the biggest amateur night on the planet.
posted by savagefredd @ 9:12 PM
4 Comments:
It's springtime to me now. The light is waxing. My New Years was November 1.
love the "buying shit no one needs with money you don't have for people you don't like." Fortunately, there's only 1 person on my list like that - I've culled all the others.
It's not a new year to me either - numbers have changed but the year isn't new to me until the vernal equinox.
ladies,
I knew I could count on my fellow educators to back me up on the new year's thing.
Hope your christmas(es/i) were pleasant.
Christmas was quiet. I was ill and happy to be. Kept all the relatives away. New Years was crazy. 6 guests staying for 4 days. It was fun too, but nuts. I think I've recovered. I never realized my sister-in-law drank so much wine. Of course I don't think we're that hard to deal with. Maybe it's my father. First time in nine years my parents had all three of their kids in the same room, though. So that was worth it.
I write this while listening to "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" by Dead Kennedys. **Just so you know what the ambience is right now.**
Hope to blog more but I have my thesis deadline next Monday.
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