On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:49:11 +0000, VivienB
wrote:

~On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:50:56 +0000, Troy wrote:
~
~Now let's just get that awful event (Xmas) over with
~
~You might feel better if you look upon it as a celebration of Yule,
~the changing of the seasons and the birth of the (real) new year. Or
~so I try to think.........
~
~Regards, VivienB

I don't think there's anything wrong with Christmas as an event. It's
the commercialisation and terrible telly and overindulgence that's the
problem. If you take it as it was meant to be, the celebration and
giving thanks for the birth of a very special baby, given as a gift to
earth (hence we give gifts), then Christmas is beautiful. As usual, we
humans have ruined it...

Just don't put on the telly. We have a cupboard of board games and
usually get out a couple. Just no Monopoly. My SO cheats! (I can
recommend a hilarious card game called Fluxx - the rules are that the
rules change, constantly, as do the conditions for winning, and it's a
hoot.)

I personally loathe New Year, and tend to go to bed about 10pm.


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

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