so way back when people decided they should celebrate christmas. so they chose december 25 to override a pagan holiday. pretty good idea if you ask me. except now christmas is the one getting taken over by another "pagan" holiday: the day of "wudyagetme?" and the preceding month of preparation called mass-consumerism. yeah its great to give people gifts, but when its all we think about..no bueno! i could be a little wrong, but i'm pretty sure i remember this right..fun fact for the day: People spend 250 billion dollars on christmas. the amount of money it would take for every single person on earth to have clean water to drink: 10 billion dollars. yeah that floored me too.
but anyways..turns out its probably a good thing christmas is in winter, and not just cuz of the snow. christmas could be ok without snow, people in more fortunate areas of the world do it all the time( its called "nice weather in december"..if thats completely foreign to you, you've obviously been trapped in the midwest every year for christmas). just picture a winter without christmas. ok, maybe i'm not thinking so much about christmas, more about christmas break. the weather starts sucking..or if your from iowa, continues to suck..you're sick of school, blah blah blah..if winter wasn't interrupted by two-ish weeks off school, the drop out rate might double..or triple..winter's already long enough between january and whenever it decides to end. good thing christmas break slips in there and slaps it across the face and gives us all a respite for a little bit.
i'm really not sure if this blog is worth anything..but oh well.
stick around for a highlight reel of 2008!..soon..hopefully
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