Christmas Time - Mistletoe and Crying

Christmas time is upon us, and what a glorious time it is.
Sitting by the fire with close family sharing gifts and stories of the year before; still full from the Christmas turkey but passing around the After Eights anyway; and taking time to wind down from the preceding year if only for a few days.
I love Christmas, it's a wonderful time of year, and yet I still find that all of it annoys me incessantly.

Christmas comes but once a year on the 25th of December. Or should I say the 1st of September onwards. Yes you may have realised that I am talking about Christmas seeming to get earlier each year. John Lewis put out their Christmas range in late September to early October; thus fueling the disgusting consumerist society that we live in. Honestly I'm not really thinking about the winter festivities the moment I start a new year of school and I don't want John Lewis reminding me with some up-side down Christmas tree. I saw one of these monstrosities the other year and thought to myself (after cringing), who is going to buy one of those. In my opinion the up-side down Christmas tree is a perfect metaphor for everything that is wrong in the world today.

I guess that it is just a sign of the age we live in. Buying tat seems to be all the average person does at Christmas. Whether it is a pair of snowflake embroidered socks for the forgotten Uncle or the stocking that plays Christmas songs when squeezed. Maybe it would be better if we remembered the real point of Christmas.
"Is it the baby Jesus"

Of course not, Jesus was born in September, 7 BC. So why celebrate his birth on the 25th of December. It just another one of man's many quirks that make everything seem so aggravating.


So here's my foolproof plan. This year I am going to celebrate Christmas in according to the Pagan tradition that it was modeled on.

Firstly mistletoe comes from an ancient druid custom. It was considered a divine plant that symbolised love and peace. So the mistletoe can stay as part of my Pagan Christmas.
Secondly Yuletide was the festival of the returning sun. In Yule tide the yule log or Christmas tree was burned for 12 days. Hence the 12 days of Christmas. So the tree has to be burned this year, no ornaments, tinsel or lights for me. This tree was considered a tribute to the almighty "Baldor" who is to be worship during my Pagan Christmas.
Gifts were given but most were small tokens of good luck called "Lucky fruits" so I don't intend to send any gifts this year. Especially not to you.
So all I have left to do if buy a brown cloak and go searching for some lay lines with my lucky rabbit's foot.


So I'll leave you with this message and wish you a happy winter solstice


"We are one with the infinite sun
For ever and ever and ever,
We are one with the infinite sun
For ever and ever and ever,

Kee a wah tay, lenya lenya, ma ho tay
Hi ah no, hi ah no, hi ah no
Kee a wah te, lenya lenya, ma ho tay
Hi ah no, hi ah no, hi ah no. "

The Social society

After a long break my long awaited blog is back and I thought I'd write about social networking and the like.

While writing this blog I am also on Facebook, Formspring and Spotify. I think I should ask myself why?


1. I am in no way popular, very few people actually care about what I say

2. I never get many notifications on Facebook or questions on Formspring

3. I hate all these things and find them incredibly depressing


Then it hit me "I am an addict"

Ironically there is very little on the Internet that is any good about this subject so I guess I'll have to write it straight from the heart.

Facebook is such an annoying site; it relies on me actually caring what other people have to say and I really don't. Yet I still constantly check everyone's updates just to see what's going on in everyone elses depressing lives when I could be doing something useful.

Formspring is even worse. When I got it I expected horrible messages written about me but I log on to find that I have no questions. I probably would prefer the attention even if it was abuse.

At least other people seem to be getting questions, but here's an example of the kind of question. Just random letters. Technically it's not even a question. Honestly I have waited since I got Formspring for something vaguely interesting to happen but so far no luck.

At least Spotify will get me through; I can listen to all the music I want, whenever I want to. But then an advert pops up and I hear something about "Berrocca Boost" or "Vodaphone free-bees." If I wanted to listen to rubbish adverts like these I would listen to local radio (which I try to avoid as much as possible.)

But having said this I am still on Facebook, Formspring and Spotify; just waiting for my sad, pathetic existence to erupt into something brilliant (which I strongly doubt will happen.)
To be honest I am a complete hypocrite because I am writing a blog about the "joys" of social networking on a blogging site.

I may even publish this on Facebook!