So, "I didn't mean to offend you...but you're doing Christmas wrong"? As in, the holiday you don't celebrate?

Some people. Sheesh.

My nephew is having a holiday thing at his school and he learned a Hanukkah song and Mom went into her "I don't understand why they can teach those songs but they can't teach about Christmas."

I kind of lost it with her. I told her that Evander doesn't need to learn about Christmas because it's EVERYWHERE. Seriously. My brother's an atheist (I think) his girlfriend is, so Evander is getting the religious part of it (I don't think) from home but it's everywhere. You know what day I'm garunteed to have off? Christmas.

Hil, I used your situation with exam scheduling and the diversity meeting on Rosh Hashanah as an example of why other religions aren't dominate and people end up having to jump through hoops in order to observe holy days because everyone gets Christmas off and no one can seem to remember there are othe religions.

I'm PMSing and I'm that RAGEY Stabby mood so I kind of came down hard on her.

Today at work I was alternating between RAGEY stabby and weepy. I over slept and was late, someone else was late. There were too many people, we have too many new people. No one wanted to wait their turn.

and if my HANDS ARE FULL or I'm moving a LADDER!! then the answer to "Are you free/busy?" is "FUCK NO! Wait your fucking turn."

Sorry, there is no holiday joy in me tonight.

Plus I took my computer back because it's being slow. I have freaking Comcast Blast Plus. I run speedtest.net on my Chromebook (so it's wireless) and get like 78 mbps. And I took my computer back, there's nothing wrong iwth it, they say, it's fine they say. They ran a speed test and was like - that's good. 10 mbps download speed is good at work. Okay whatver.

I get it home. I try something that was suggested and then I just unplug everything, power cycle everything and plug directly into the modem and the speeds are freaking slower. So it's the modem or router, but that doesn't make sense becuase everything but my computer gets really fast speeds.

If I have to look at one more "The reason for the season" thing on an extended family's FB page I may just go off and rant that they should STOP putting up trees and giving gifts (well maybe you could justify the gifts from the wise men) but NO TREE. NO Santa. No Freaking Elf on the Fucking Shelf. NONE OF IT. Just be humble and generous to people in need and who are sick (and possibly someone you don't think is worthy).

....

Sorry, I'm just very stressed and overwhelmed today and working in retail makes me wish that Christmas would go away. Don't come to my store 5 days before Xmas and then get upset because the thing you wanted that "I knew I should have come in sooner for" isn't here and we can't promise it by Christmas.

BAD PLANNING. Give them a picture and an IOU. Your teenager can fucking deal.

Apparently I'm depriving my hypothetical future children of magic by not planning to tell them that Santa is real, and being cruel to them by letting them think that all the other kids get this great magical holiday, and they don't.

You're Jewish!

And even if you weren't it's none of their fucking business.

cruel to them by letting them think that all the other kids get this great magical holiday, and they don't

...uh, telling them "Santa exists but doesn't bring presents to Jewish kids" would be "letting them think other kids get this great magical holiday" If you tell them Santa doesn't exist, then you're letting them think the other kids are deluded and naive! Way better. :)

She seems to think that I should have my kids celebrate Christmas, including Santa, because otherwise their little hearts will be broken by being left out of the magic.

Her oldest son -- she's got three boys -- is seven, and very into science. Like, he wears a lab coat whenever he can, and is always doing experiments on stuff. I have a feeling he's going to start testing the Santa Hypothesis pretty soon.

You have the magic of the oil.

There was a piece in the Times making that argument this morning.

Wait, duh, I think I saw it off your facebook feed. In my defense, I've slept about four hours out of the last 60.