What a conscientious agnostic to do?

Say "Merry Christmas!" right back.

They're wishing you happiness. It's a kind thing to do whether you care or not that it is, in fact, Christmas Day. They're not threating you with hell or calling your a sinner (as too many Christians, sad to say, are apt to do) they're being nice. Quite nice.

Try and think of it as a very very specific "Have a nice day!"

I mean, you could go with "Have a good or bad day yourself, I don't care as I am a conscientious agnostic" but it just has no ring to it.

It never fails to boggle my mind that my mother, who has been married to a Jewish man for over forty years, gets snippy about Happy Holidays.

Oy. Hit her back with "Happy Thanksgiving, Kwanzaa, Chanukah, Christmas, and New Years!" Seriously. It's a LOT of holidays in a month-and-change.

maybe we should change it to "Happy Wal*Mart Day!" or something.

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Happy Capitalism! ?

It's not the heat; it's the stupidity.

That was really, really true until the summer my ac broke and it turns out I can just barely deal with heat or stupid but if I get both, I move back to California.

I gots PixDesigns! And, yes, way too long. But lovely to have our ships cross tonight.

Now baaaaaaaaaaaaath.

So great having omnis for Christmas. It helps to have an outsider's perspective on how crazy my family is. (Fun crazy, not dead parrot crazy.)

I was in an internetless limbo, but I did get safely to Nashville. It took another hour and microwaving a hamburger to capture Mr Peabody.

We have a very white Christmas in Nashville, and very pretty except when contemplating the sheen of the refrozen streets.

Athiest that I am, I have no objection to heartfelt good wishes in any form, although "Have a blessed day" makes me a bit twitchy. I hope you all had an excellent December 25th. One of the greatest gifts in my life is all of you.

(Fun crazy, not dead parrot crazy.)

My fun crazy was last night. Today was nearly dead parrot crazy.

Now it's Portland raining. I want Time Lords but I need to stay up a long, long time to watch. Unless I can't sleep, in which case, Who soon!

Tonight I was the classy Bitch drinking a nice pinot out of a red Solo cup. In fairness, I was in the bath and I know better than bringing real wine glasses in with me. Well, I know now. Previous trials are why Lee made me buy an acrylic wine glass. But I didn't think to travel with it, so Solo.

I will accept not watching Who if I just fall asleep. Just putting that out there.

I'm attempting to pack for a trip while people freak the fuck out about taking a train in a blizzard.

Dopes. You WANT to be on a train in a blizzard. Srsly. That is the optimum mode of transport.

Totally train. Totally. It's precisely the way I want to go in weather.

Huh no BBC. I guess no Who. Time to court sleepies.

Back from a long day with Tim's family. Merry Christmas, Bitches! (As someone above said, I get a kick out of being able to say "Merry Christmas" and follow it with "Bitches"!)

ION, 3 couples I know got engaged this weekend. (We are NOT one of them; I would never break that news in such a burying-the-lede manner.) That seems statistically improbable.

One of the couples is someone from high school who I'm only Facebook friends with -- we weren't friends in high school, and we aren't friends now, but she friended me and I figured what the hell and friended her back.

So anyway, she posted about her engagement on FB, and of course people were congratulating her, and she replied with "Thanks! We are just one of those couples like in the movie The Notebook! In almost 3 years together, we never broke up even once!"

And all I could think was "Is that...unusal for you? Seeing as how you're 40 years old and not in junior high?"

(Yes, I know that couples -- of any age -- do in fact break up and get back together, and so what my FB friend posted is probably well worth noting, for her. But I still just had to laugh at the phrasing. And also the fact that when people congratulated her on her engagement, her reply was NOT "I'm so happy," or similar, but "We've never broken up!")

Also, we learned that a baby will chase a laser-pointer dot just like a cat will. It was fucking hilarious.