Can you all help me cluestick him? I'm so afraid I'm just gonna get angry and say, "DID YOU EVEN READ MY FUCKING PAPER????!!!!"

Then came bedtime where I got to hear my wife tell me was a horrible, terrible, no-good person I am.

You're rubber and she's glue and honestly I think the complaints reflect more on her character than yours. t /partisan on Gud's side and sorry about it but there it is

JZ neglects to mention that Janelle (Dark Garden women at Jill Tracy concert) looked pretty much exactly like a pint sized Ani Defranco (during her buzzcut phase) dressed in fetish wear. Also, she was hitting on JZ. Tara was sort of like a waifish erinaceous (that almost rhymes), and she lectured me on the virtues of learning how to waltz.

I didn't bother to tell her that I already knew how to waltz.

Today is practically an optimal day for not being here so I'm not sad to go collect Emmett. I expect he'll perk up after I pour a gallon citrus juices into him, and we get his Halloween costume.

t stands with Nora in the hates enforced happy times corner.

hey there. how you doing, corner-sharer?

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So, I returned the cute ass Indigo by Clarks shoes I bought cause they were really hurty. I had to exchange the pair I wore so I got these [link] I am happy to report that they are comfy and cute. (But I'll still miss the cute ones I returned.)

I hate the holidays SO MUCH and then I think, no, IT'S JUST THAT I SUCK ASS AND AM SELFISH.

Dude, are you going to be a buzzkill all season? Because I am pro-turkey with gravy, and pro-mulled wine and stockings. And very pro-Halloween costuming and trick or treat.

I don't understand why people feel oppressed by the holidays. Reject the shit you don't like, and do the shit you do like. Your family stresses you out? Don't go home for the holidays, and fuck the guilt mongering. You hate the office parties? Don't go. You don't want to shop for gifts? Don't do it. You like making fruitcake? Make fruitcake. You hate being the only Vegan at Thanksgiving? Hold a Vegan thanksgiving at your house. Or go eat Chinese. You hate Christmas music? Play Public Enemy all month on your iPod. Or Bach. Or earplugs.

It helps if you look at it as an excuse to eat good food and put up decorations, rather than as being forced to do so. ("Oh, fabulous, I can put more shiny stuff up. Shiny stuff is good")

That being said, I HATE having to travel for Thanksgiving, no matter how many folks I love are going to be there..

I will not be a buzzkill all season, espcially since I pointed out that it's not the holidays, it is in fact my suckiness that sucks.

But I will point out with arched eyebrow (which I can only do online) that evading family shit is NSM easily done. For me. Perhaps this is a Scrooge McDuck characteristic of my own that must be overcome, my burden to bear, so to speak, but family stuff is, well, hard to avoid.

Speaking as someone who has gone to some lengths to avoid it.

I don't understand why people feel oppressed by the holidays. Reject the shit you don't like, and do the shit you do like.

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Were it only that simple. However, as a married person with a small child and both families within spitting distance, let me assure you, it's not.

If you were allowed to kill all the people who were holidaying in your face, and exhorting you to follow suit, then it'd be more than easy to reject, it'd be fun.