'Tis Now The Season

Well, that’s it!

 

Normally I declare it to be Christmas on on November 3^rd, after Halloween and Los Días de Los Muertos. But I was willing to wait this year for the end of Election Day, and declare Christmas now, on the 5^th. You gotta admit, it feels like Christmas*—and I’m not just talking about the fact that snow happened and everywhere I went to during my errands had their Christmas Shit out.**

 

I am fine with this.  I prefer it. I like Christmas, dudes.  I like the snow and the season and the songs and the colors and the way people suddenly are very busy preparing for it.  (I know I will be—I had a totally brilliant idea for Christmas presents for everyone this year, and have to get started on that anyway.)  I like the way Thanksgiving is placed, so it’s a sort of warm-up for Christmas—in my mind, they are part of the same basic Holiday Season.  And I enjoy extending that as long as I can, because I could always use more happy in my life.

 

So yes, athough I pretty much decided this yesterday, today I will make it official: I declare it to be the Christmas season. And, as always, I deliver my traditional, preemptive response to anyone who gripes that it’s too soon: kiss my tinsel-festooned ass.

 

Happy Holidays, dammit.

 

 

*Well, to me. This is Utah, after all.  Yesterday Mom says the office ran into a steady stream of furious doctors and patients with all manner of grievanaces about the results of the election, from They Will Take Our Hard-Earned Money And Give It To The Lazy Poor to I’m Not Racist But.  Nobody was willing to concede this was historic, even.

 

**Post Office: Stamps, including Eid stamps—way to stay on top of things, post office.

Grocery Store: Candy canes, apple cider

Joann’s: MY GOD IT’S THE CHRISTMAS APOCALYPSE. Ginger bread house kits, wreaths, stocking kits, and the fabric!

And Now For Something Completely Different

I coulda swore I made this Fuck You, California! post, but I apparently didn’t actually post it.  So here it is now: FUCK YOU, CALIFORNIA.

 

And you, ARIZONA.

 

Also you, FLORIDA.

ETA: And we can't forget ARKANSAS.

 

Still got some work to do, I see. Someday we’ll look back on this and wonder how we ever could have even argued about this shit. I myself don’t understand what the big deal is about marriage—I see it as a strategy for social regulation, and that people get so up-in-arms about how it should be shows that they really don’t understand the big picture. But that we allow some people this and not others for no good reason is terrible.

 

I would also like to apologize for my state, without whose support Prop 8 would have had a harder time passing.  You would think a state founded by people who wanted to try unconventional marriage, a state where many are still sympathetic to people who practice institutionalized incest and statutory rape, would have the grace to shut the hell up. Sorry. I will give Utah a stern talking-to.

 

We’ll make it. This is a setback, but we’ll make it, dammit.