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@ Kaderin: B/ Omg, I'd nope out of all of that entirely. I'm so glad my fam only makes me clean and participate in helping to make cookies, bunuelos, and tamales.
<.<; I was kinda nervous that they'd take us to church today too, but luckily we had a late and extended lunch and too much to do in the morning. >w> Besides I had more Christmas spirit in the morning when I woke up sleepy as hell, than probably our entire block. I take Christmas time seriously yo. No religious or melodramatic diversions of any kind! >:[

I actually interrupted the cardinal's televised message in the morning, about the "true meaning of Christmas in faith" with the yule log and music. I was rollin' my eyes about, "Jesus Christ represents the joy in all of us," and "God gives as we give and we should give thanks to the Lord for such a time of giving," blah blah blah. I'm not gonna bash on Christianity or Catholicism, and I don't condemn them or dismiss them, or anything. <:/ Cause it's part of some people's identities and it helps them n' all through thick and thin. But I'm agnostic than the rest of my fam, and I feel I know the message better than the people who I think waste time listening to someone tell them something they already know and have heard for years, while singing for themselves and dragging their kids and whole families to a place they didn't really want to spend an hour in. /B] That time coulda been spent actually living the message rather than hearing it again. And guilting someone into not attending church is honestly less Christian than their treatment of the most anticipated holiday of the year.

<W< My mum and gran were like, "why did you do that? I was listening. I didn't get to hear the Christmas message." And I was all, /:D "You guys have been alive longer than I have and you don't know about the Christmas message???" Like, you need someone to remind you about unconditional love to your family and neighbors and to have an open, generous and thankful heart??? /xD Wahhh? I've stopped goin' to church for a year and a half, and even I know that! Sorry to rant so much. ^^;; It's just I had seen like huge crowds of people all squeezing into and around churches, >-> and not enough people kind enough to hold a door open for someone elderly or physically impaired, compliment someone on their clothes, or give something to the guy on the corner trying to sell fruit in 62 degree weather.

I yanked them away from their TV in the morning and dragged them all to the front where the tree and presents all were, so we could open them together, and actually be present as a family in ONE room. B[ Because it's crissmiss goddammit! And everyone had a nice time!..until we had to get to work, and they went right back to watching crime dramas and stuff. <x} Go figure, old habits...*shrug* well, it was nice while it lasted.