A Very Grinchy Christmas

Monday, 12 December 2011

I really didn't think Weekend Notes would post my uncommercial Christmas-hating piece, but they did :)


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16 comments

  1. Kel12 December 2011 at 11:21

    good one  -  i 'liked' it, but for some reason it has not shown up on fb
    in the spirit of grinchness. i hate it when an application wants your facebook log on but doesn't deliver what you signed on for

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  2. Sue Stevenson12 December 2011 at 11:33

    Dear fellow sort of Grinch:  that's very annoying, and yet rather applicable, considering Christmas doesn't deliver  either :P)

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  3. Kel12 December 2011 at 11:37

    oh xmas delivers alright - stress, financial burden, family guilt trips . . .

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  4. Erin Word12 December 2011 at 16:43

    Very nice, my friend! Not so grinchy at all! 

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  5. Sue Stevenson12 December 2011 at 16:53

    Really?  Geez, what is wrong with me then?  My perceptions are skewed.  What I FELT like was that this piece was rather cynical and mean and everyone would think, "Gee, that Sue, she's such a bitch."

    Help! she wailed.  I keep equating having an opinion with being a bitch in my head.  When the fuck am I going to get over this crap?  I need an excorcist, or a shaman or something :)

    But anyway.  Thanks, Erin!!!  :)

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  6. Erin Word12 December 2011 at 17:13

    I think it was wonderful...rather than just exclaiming that everyone ought to just give up the whole nonsense, there are good and constructive things to do about it. Love it. 

    Along the lines of "No one is as together as everyone else thinks they are, nor is anyone as fucked up as they think they appear to everyone else"...something like "No one spends as much time thinking badly about us as we think they do".  :)

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  7. Sue Stevenson13 December 2011 at 10:34

    Oh, thanks, Erin.  

    Your second paragraph is very much worth remembering if stuck in bouts of paranoia :)  Actually, I think this is my absolute number one fear - fear of disapproval or of criticism.Therefore, the only way to break such fears is to incur disapproval and criticism according to the book I'm reading about it.  Which is of course how it has to be.  So ... I guess depending on which way you look at it, designing for yourself a bit of a program to possibly INVITE criticism could well be fun, if you look at it in a certain way :)

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  8. Emma13 December 2011 at 17:15

    Hey nice! And this year I get to do one of the ones on the list. As I'm not going back to England and have no family in Canada, I plan to spend the entire day in my pyjamas and have ordered a long list of Christmas movies from the library. (I will be Doing Things other days but Christmas Day is All MINE). So thanks for the affirmation!

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  9. Sue Stevenson13 December 2011 at 18:22

    Hey Emma.  Cool!!  I hereby affirm and bestow upon you grace and light and pyjamahood.  Sounds lovely :)

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  10. Mythopoesisme20 December 2011 at 04:07

    Nice piece, Sue.  I really do like your writing; I like the archness and the humor you bring to your pieces.  The Norman Rockwell image of what Christmas should "feel" like is so disturbing because it can't, in reality, be approached and we find ourselves...wanting when everything is said and done. Not to mention how Christmas has been weaponized for use in the culture wars... . I will raise a glass to you Christmas day none-the-less, and toast to our good fortune and a contented new year.  (Arizona time of course :)

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  11. Sue Stevenson20 December 2011 at 08:27

    Thank you, Brad (it is you, is it not?)

    Yes, is what disturbs me too.  And I know some people find ME disturbing and probably think, "Why not just roll with it and enjoy it?"  Which I can do to a certain extent (eventually) but it's just frustrating that one of the few things we share as a culture is one that's so devoid of anything nourishing and sustaining.

    Nevertheless, I will raise a glass to you also ... on Boxing Day :)

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  12. susieq77730 December 2011 at 12:37

    Hey Emma.  Cool!!  I hereby affirm and bestow upon you grace and light and pyjamahood.  Sounds lovely :)

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  13. susieq77730 December 2011 at 12:37

    Thank you, Brad (it is you, is it not?)

    Yes, is what disturbs me too.  And I know some people find ME disturbing and probably think, "Why not just roll with it and enjoy it?"  Which I can do to a certain extent (eventually) but it's just frustrating that one of the few things we share as a culture is one that's so devoid of anything nourishing and sustaining.

    Nevertheless, I will raise a glass to you also ... on Boxing Day :)

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  14. susieq77730 December 2011 at 12:38

    Really?  Geez, what is wrong with me then?  My perceptions are skewed.  What I FELT like was that this piece was rather cynical and mean and everyone would think, "Gee, that Sue, she's such a bitch."

    Help! she wailed.  I keep equating having an opinion with being a bitch in my head.  When the fuck am I going to get over this crap?  I need an excorcist, or a shaman or something :)

    But anyway.  Thanks, Erin!!!  :)

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  15. susieq77730 December 2011 at 12:40

    Oh, thanks, Erin.  

    Your second paragraph is very much worth remembering if stuck in bouts of paranoia :)  Actually, I think this is my absolute number one fear - fear of disapproval or of criticism.Therefore, the only way to break such fears is to incur disapproval and criticism according to the book I'm reading about it.  Which is of course how it has to be.  So ... I guess depending on which way you look at it, designing for yourself a bit of a program to possibly INVITE criticism could well be fun, if you look at it in a certain way :)

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  16. susieq77730 December 2011 at 12:40

    Dear fellow sort of Grinch:  that's very annoying, and yet rather applicable, considering Christmas doesn't deliver  either :P)

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