people in high places are in on the killtaker

but who doesn't?

well, not too many people. but i can't understand it? why do people love christmas so much? it's not like we live in argentina where we could say things like, "man, i hate christmas but at least the weather is getting better." here it's so cold you just want to kill yourself. and that's without thinking about christmas. and then it's shopping, shopping, tv shows about shopping, work christmas parties (which you have to shop for), shopping, christmas songs everywhere, lights, shopping and shopping. and everyone is like, "i just love christmas because i love giving gifts." bullshit. well, maybe. but i still think it's giving to look good as opposed to some sort of platonic form about giving like giving is good in and of itself. or maybe that's that other guy. aristotle? did the ancient greeks have christmas? they probably invented it after they killed socrates. i hate ancient greece. except for that one play. i don't know, maybe i hate that too.

back to christmas. so i have this family christmas party every year with my mom's side of the family. we do some weird white elephant gift exchange and i feel like no one even cares. there's a five dollar limit so everyone buys stupid candy or place warmers (which i always want but never get) or slinkys. but it's white elephant? doesn't that mean you bring stuff from your home you don't want? last year i brought an extra copy of beckett's "waiting for godot" and my collection of simon and garfunkel records. these were two seperate gifts. but here was my original idea (and by original i mean that aaron's friend greg thought of it): get one of those free book of mormons and put a generic testimony in the front. then when someone gets it and asks who it's from, hint that it could be a christmas miracle. this would work best if one of the non-member or less-active persons in our family received the gift. two weeks later all my active family members would be bearing their little hearts out during testimony meeting about how this christmas miracle is uniting our entire family with god or something. that would have been a good christmas.