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So Christmas is descending upon us faster that we can snap a candy cane in half! I don't know about you, or her or the little one... but I am just not ready for this overwhelming time. I work in a supermarket part - time to help fund my studies. I have experienced 3 consecutive festive seasons in a row as a 'check - out - chick'! Not only do people go jolly mad for hams, chocolate coated almonds and fruit cake, they also go crazy for maxing out their credit card, running into the backs of my legs with a shopping trolley and abusing me once they get to the checkouts, as the poor sods have had to wait in line for 10 whole minutes! Sorry my love, but this is a supermarket. This is the place everybody flocks to to buy a trolley load full of sweets to devour in one single day and then feel disgustingly sick the next. This is Christmas time. A time when carols play like a broken record and when parking at your local Westfield's is as hard as winning the lottery.
As a 4 year old child, Christmas time was almost as amazing as my birthday. I would cut up carrots for the reindeer's and leave Santa milk and cookies on Christmas Eve. Now, thanks to the rat race, the economy and greed of human kind... Christmas is no longer about giving. People who are not Christian celebrate Christmas because Woolworths and Myer celebrate Christmas. To me Santa is now just a myth to make kids want 'stuff'. Useless meaningless stuff. It is more than likely that the reindeers have caught the horse flu as well. A petrol fueled sleigh is no longer an option either as rising oil prices make us wish we all still rode in carriages! I am not sure who I am angry at here. But I'll go with this one: Thank you' supermarket' for making me loathe Christmas and the fat jelly belly that comes with it!