Fuck all the haters

[MorganGrayson]

"Wintery Night"???? That's...that's...VIOLATION OF COPYRIGHT!!!!!

(Sorry. We all have our "mortal sins.")

The proper greeting for the Christmas holiday is "Merry Christmas." (For those who are not Christian, this phrase translates into "have yerself a rollickin' fun time this season, from me to you.") I would be no more offended by the good intentions of a Christian than I would be of a Moslem wishing me a happy...something. Or a Hindu, ditto.

I had a teacher confide that the *real* problem with the school using "Merry Christmas" and symbols of Christmas was the Jehovah's Witnesses. Not the atheists, not the Jews, not the pagans...*Christians* who didn't celebrate holidays but liked to get up in other people's faces about it. (That was the year I stuck an angel on the top of the "holiday tree" in the school library. I can be a very, very bad person in some rather unique ways.)

The thing currrently in my living room blinking all of its colored lights merrily is a CHRISTMAS TREE. (Really. You'd recognize it anywhere.) There is such a thing as a "Yule Tree," but it goes outside and is used to feed all the little feather and furred creatures who sometimes have a hard way to go finding food this time of year. This is Southern California where the feather and furred creatures all send out for Thai food. I have a menorah...but I don't know where it is. Finding it is on my husband's "To Do" list.

All month I've had a collection of avatars featuring Father CHRISTMAS. Not Father "Holidays." (The dude is busy *enough,* I figure.) Why? Because I think he's pretty. He makes me happy. What better reasons?