Christmas?

Christmas.

Is n't it just a bit early for Christmas?

Not according to Serria Trading Post. I got their Christmas catalog today. Scheels has had a good part of their store decked out for a couple of weeks. Come on already!

I am a buy everything on the 24th of December kind of guy. I don't even start thinking about it until the week before. Frankly, Christmas is one huge pain in the ass.

It didn't use to be that. But that was a long time ago when we made it a point to have Holloween. Then the Nebraska-Oklahoma game. Then Thanksgiving dinner. Then snow and cold. Then Christmas.

Almost all of that stuff is gone. We go from the 4th of July to Christmas.

The holiday has nothing to do with Jesus anymore. It has to do with making retail projections. It has to do with meeting projections before Wal-Mart does you in. It has to do with getting what is hot and battling your way to the front of the line by any means necessary. It has to do with being in line outside of Best Buy at four in the morning the day after Thanksgiving. If the item is really hot, it has to do with camping in front of Best Buy for a couple of days.

Well enough. I am not celebrating Christmas anymore. No presents for me, please. Give the money to some charity that can go buy some toys on sale on Christmas Eve and put smiles on kids who really need smiles.