Night of the Merry Ho Ho
Well, it's upon us all once more. Let the retailers rejoice, let the people be glad, Christmas Eve has arrived. In my slightly more cynical mindset, the significance of tonight runs more along the lines of, "At last, Phase One of
Operation: Get This Freakin' Season Over & Done With is completed."
Incidentally, Phase Two will be over in the next few days, once the Boxing Day crowds are satisfied and placated, shot and sedated. After that...I don't know. The world around me might quiet down for a while. It's a bit of a frightening thought, to suddenly find yourself enjoying some quiet time. I don't think I've seen that since, oh, maybe July or August.
So, in dropping all snarky guises and "Curse you, Red Baron!" cries at what Commercialmas puts the retail industry workers through, I might as well offer this up to everyone: Merry Christmas. May tonight be filled with peace, quiet, and the sounds of either laughter or collective sighs of relief. Especially since tomorrow will be filled with the sounds of shredded wrapping paper, get all that peace while you can.
I plan on sleeping in most of the morning myself. I've bloody well earned it...
And as God is my witness, I swear if I see any of you in my over-crowded mall on Boxing Day, you will be klonged in the face with my
Customer Appreciation Pancake Maker.
Today's Lesson: amazingly enough, a season filled with exhaustion, exasperation and incessant homicidal-tendencies-inducing Christmas music still can't entirely kill the serenity needed to enjoy the next day and a bit.
posted by Phillip at 2:24 PM
