Becca... "the stores started playing Christmas music last week"

Marketing department wars between competing corporations know no bounds. If the Consumerists have a better marketing department than the Christians then they will stop at no ends to promote their company line. Just as the Christians did to those who celebrated the soltice hundreds and hundreds of years ago. The marketing department of the Pagans who celebrated the solstice many moons ago lost out to the Christian marketing department. Now... well, ya just gotta listen to that incessant shit for far too long. I mean, I'll admit the Christians had some good jingles. Old King Whasshisname comes to mind immediately. Snappy tune, that one. But, ya gotta have game, eh?

Now, ya can't cite the Consumerists for using it in their marketing campaigns. And Christians shouldn't cry foul about it after what their marketing department did to the Pagans even tho it was so long ago.

I hope you all have a peace with you this... whatever you want it to be. Me? I celebrate that it means the ensuing days will get longer and warmer eventually and there will be a renewal of life with spring. I look forward all the way to next harvest. Especially the fresh veggies and cooking thinks like a boiled ham dinner. The dark and cold days in between will be used for reflection and pennance for my gluttony during last harvest. I shall atone by observing lent, or whatever you may call it, even tho, these days, it is not imposed upon me by Mother Earth, and merely be a human, thankful and tolerant in the knowledge that it's all a cycle. I accept it. I accept the natural cycle.

And, I accept the necessity of my fellow human beings in their attemts to understand it all for peace of mind and to deal with that endeavour in any way, religious... spiritual.. or otherwise.

But, yeah. That fuckin shit they play incessantly at the stores really pisses me off.