Merry kissmyass...

I really do like the holidays. Really. But every year that I spend the way I do, the more I appreciate the fact that Christmas should be less about things and more about the finer things in life. Seems that everyone always has somewhere to go or something to do. Even when they go to do the things they are rushing to go do, people seem to be in a hurry to be somewhere else. You go to work, wanting to go home... You are at home, living around the schedule to go back to work. Haircuts, oil changes shopping, doctor visits, lunch meetings... Need I go on?

Christmas in Southern California is awesome! It's almost eighty degrees out and there's still plenty to keep a perpetually single guy occupied. Thing is, being in a place like this makes me want to spend Christmas in a small town with people that truly appreciate the holidays for their own special reason.

It doesn't have to be for religious meanings nor does it have to be for anti-religious purposes. The holiday season should be a time to come together as families, friends and communities to let bygones be bygones... Not simply a temporary hold on the conflicts we live with throughout the year. It most definitely shouldn't be about the commercialism of it.

I'm enjoying a Christmas looking out for myself once again. I'm happy... no matter how much guilt is laid on me by people who think I shouldn't live this way. Off to bed for now for an early morning at work...