Yes, we need a little Christmas...

...right this very minute. NOT!

What is wrong with these retailers? Yesterday it was October, and today there are Christmas decorations and promotions all over the place. I heard an analyst on the radio today saying that the traditional "day after Thanksgiving" shopping day would still be the busiest of the year, so why do they want to start promotions now?

As an adult, I have come to hate Christmas, but I loved it as a kid. Even though it meant fighting my way to the tree through my eight siblings, and then having my brother break my transistor radio, after which he then sold me his transistor radio for the eight dollars I got for Christmas (until Dad found out and intervened), and suffering through the post-Christmas depression because I didn't get that...whatever it was I didn't get. On top of that, my birthday is on the 12th day of Christmas (January 6), and most of the time, I got the Christmas/Birthday combo gift. Bummer.

That's why I used to put LSD in the eggnog. Not because it was right, but because I could.