The whole supercharged huge overblown marketing blitz in the guise of loving each other is obscene.
I agree, hence this year I opt out, instead I will celebrate the old pagan yuletide festival by engaging in 12 days (or however many I can scrounge off work) of intensive computer game playing, miniature painting, reading and generally enjoying myself and most importantly NOT WORKING
Being on the other side of the planet to all known relations means I can pretty much avoid them without any feelings of guilt. I will however miss my Mums christmas dinner, although given the current temperature a nice ice cold cocktail probably be preferable to a roast dinner anyway
