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12/26/2002 Archived Entry: "Happy Boxing Day!!"

For those of you not in the know...Boxing Day is NOT a day to get rid of boxes! Stop this horrid urban legend now!

Boxing Day is all about the spirit of the day before it...it's a day where (after you have spent Christmas being good to those in your family and close circle of friends), you help those with less than you. It's a day where the rich help the poor, the high class give gifts to the lower classes, and where a show of equality is given. It's a day where the behaviours that SHOULD be expressed on Christmas, if not all year round, are shown.

...and therefore it has nothing to do with pugilistic beatings either.

It's also Jen's birthday! Happy 32! Now I can't say I'm married to a younger woman (for 5 more months). As such, we will be heading out to Fatzo's restaurant for some good barbeque and southern cookin'.

Yesterday was lovely...the best Christmas ever. Each of our gifts were full of care and thought of what the other were like. None were supremely extravagant, but they didn't need to be. It's the spirit of love that counts.
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Which is why I get annoyed with people who hate Christmas and refuse to celebrate it because they hate the commercialism and forced feelings of it. Go ahead and hate the commercialism. Go ahead and don't buy a single gift, go ahead and avoid the family you don't like and eating dried-up old turkey and canned cranberry jelly. But why spite yourself by refusing to make things with care for the ones you love? Why ignore the good feelings you have and the chance to relax with those you care about for an entire wonderful day? Why feel pressured to do the things that other people do? I mean, if you are willing to hate Christmas anyway and rebel enough to not celebrate it, why not rebel enough to change the meaning of it for yourself and your loved ones and enjoy it while you can.

It's just a day out of the hundreds of thousands you will live through. Like every day, why not make it a special one.