I like rum and egg nogs and sitting in front of the fire channel (wish I had a fireplace) reading a book. I like listening to the holiday classics in the dark on the drive home or while the wife cooks breakfast on the weekends. I like the lights and appreciate the tastefully decorated houses.
I don't like the abundance of baking and chocolates and food that gets shoved down your throat. I don't like pop star's modern holiday songs. I don't like the obligation to give or receive gifts. I don't like the ######s who break out their mis-matched strings of lights a week into November and have them on all the way through till March.
I hate the stress of trying to squeeze in a dozen different family events into two or three days because heaven forbid we not see some branch of the family each and every holiday season - that would clearly make us horrible, horrible people.
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