Continuing on with my Christmas theme, here are a few small and random things about the yuletide season that are worth mentioning but don't have enough content to each have their own blog.
Flavored candy canes... Why can't we stick with good old fashioned candy cane flavors like peppermint, spearmint, wintergreen, and cinnamon in the typical striped pattern? Why does every candy company in the world think they have to get in on the candy cane movement by offering candy canes in a multitude of their flavors and plastering them with images of different characters all over the cellophane? For example, there is no need for Jolly Rancher candy canes to even exist. Jolly ranchers are a hard candy, candy canes are a hard candy. Everyone knows what a pain in the ass it is to bite a Jolly Rancher in half, so hey let's go ahead and make candy canes out of the same stuff! Stupid. And what's with all of the Jolly Rancher flavors? We don't need artificially colored blue raspberry, lemon, apple, grape, and cherry flavored Jolly Rancher candy canes that no one can bite through and stain your mouth, furniture, hands, and clothing. Not to mention the other countless stupid themed candy canes, like Hello Kitty, that come in dessert flavors like strawberry shortcake and root beer float or the Coldstone candy canes that come in a multitude of disgusting ice cream flavors like tin roof sundae or peanut butter cup. Stop making them already. What's more, why do they make candy canes for Easter now? I mean I can see because it's shaped like a shepherd's crook, but still, it's a Christmas thing. Leave it there.
Christmas 'Colors'. When did the typical red, green, blue, white, silver, and gold Christmas colors get turned into kiwi green, magenta, sky blue, mango orange, hot pink, and yellow!? I mean I like to go out and look for nice traditional styled ornaments and now as soon as they put out any kind of Christmas decorations for sale it looks like Mardi Gras fucking exploded all over the place. All the trees that are decorated look like Mardi Gras vomited on all of the branches with artificially colored feathers, strings of plastic beads, rainbow tinsel balls, and glitter... Everything is fucking covered in nasty glitter. (Twi-hards, that should make you proud.) What happened to simple, elegant matte finished glass bulbs, or the clear ones etched with snowflakes? I miss that kind of thing. What's worse, pastels are in fashion for Christmas this year. You can get hot pink Christmas trees now, lime green ones, pale yellow, etc. I mean really. When did Easter colors become Christmas colors? Don't get me wrong, I have a little guilty pleasure about new colors, I loved when they had all of the royal purple and black decorations, but that only lasted for two years. The royal purple has now become lavender... I don't want my Christmas tree to look like Easter exploded all over it either! I'm all for new and exciting things but when you go out looking for decorations that are somewhat traditional as far as colors and all you can find is stuff that looks like it belongs on Mardi Gras Barbie's Dream Tree, that's where I get irritated.
Materialism/Selfishness. Christmas has become nothing but "I want, I want, I want..." It's all about who you know and how much money they have. Those people are usually asked to buy the most expensive gifts. Everything about Christmas has turned from the original point to being about nothing but money, gifts, and what everyone expects others to get for them. Why can't it be the way it used to be? It pisses me off that people are so materialistic and greedy. Get off your fucking high-horses and instead of being a selfish bunch of bitches on Christmas counting out what you got, why don't you pick up the fucking phone and call someone you haven's seen in ages just to tell them Merry Christmas. Remember, there are a lot of people out there that have a lot less than you, even people in your own family that may be having a bad day on Christmas. Stop thinking about just yourself and try to make someone else feel joy this Christmas. If you are one of the people that can't afford to get a gift for someone, don't turn into a Grinchy prick, stop by, just say hello, give them a hug. Hell draw them a Christmas card with a crayon and take the time to write a little message inside. It's the little things that should matter. I'd rather spend time with someone I love on Christmas than to have all of the gifts in the world. Selfishness and materialism piss me off.
...To be continued.
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