I know that for many members of our cute little insane abstract family, 2013 has been a very rough year. For some, I'm sure, it's been a wonderful year. It's just generally easier to notice the bad things in our lives. You Americans all have your fangled Thanksgiving to stop your lives for a moment and just be grateful for all the good things you have around you and stuff your faces with birds, but for me Christmas has that role. I say this with some caution knowing that there is a minister reading, but the biggest part of Christmas isn't Jesus or Christianity at all. It's not even consumerism. Family.
I hope you all have a merry Christmas. Especially Irock.
@bluntsword: Christmas doesn't look like that at all. You've made that up.