It's technically Christmas over here in the UK, it has been for about 45 minutes since I've started writing this.

I'm gunna cut to the chase, I've grown to hate christmas over the years. Not because I'm full of rage - that only contributes - but damn near everything about it is fake. Your family comes to your home (for this christmas I'm staying at my parents house, leaving just after new years.) and they pretend they give a rats ass about you for a day of the year. Now, I'm not saying I do this, but I have several reletives that only ever converse with me on christmas, through the rest of the year, I don't even hear a peep out of them, unless someone's pregnant. Again. Let me stress this fact, because it's a large part of why I hate christmas - My family is fucking HUGE. Now, I'm not exaggerating, I have two whole seperate families in two different countries (Scotland and England) so not only is my house either, full of people I don't care that much about, and the phone's constantly ringing, Or, we're at someone elses house and our mobile(cellphones for you yanks) are constantly ringing, meaning we have to leave the warm house and spend the remainder of the night outside.

To add to this neusince, my family somehow thinks it's a great idea to drag everyone up to scotland every other year for about two weeks? three? One time, a month it ended up, not so much my family's fault, more my grandmothers, as she guilts us into staying longer than we want to.

But I digress, the main part of my hate - and to keep this blog game related - is that my family thinks because I love games, that's the BEST thing to get for me! So every year, from the very begining of winter, I have to call the entire family just incase someone is planning to buy me a game, and 8/10 times I'll get them trying to hide it by saying something alone the lines of "oh.. uh.. I'm not sure.. did I buy that? I honestly can't remember.." or "Yeah, I bought that, you'll have to wait for it." Meaning I get left with a very little amount of games I can buy safely, and usually none that I want, because if I ever mention a game people somehow seem to thing I'm hinting, like my most recent case, I was talking to my brother about my xbox live subscription running out, next thing I know? "Oh, you gunna buy that live thing?" "Yeah, I know it's expensive, but I gotta get back in the game" "You can't, I bought it for you, you're gunna have to wait". So I've been liveless for months. Thanks alot.

Now, I'm not trying to sound spoilt here, but come on, really? The only reason I managed to bag myself Bioshock is because I mentioned it to no one and I only have halo 3 because I told everyone I already had it, before it was out, Yeah, my family seem to think I'm some super hacker that can get games before they're published.

There's some other stuff, the cheesy movies, the overload of children (I hate children, I have two young sisters, it's hell.), and then to top it off, people complain that I'm not "In the christmas spirit". I usually reply with "You bunch of hypocrits, none of you are christian", which usually results with glares as I slowly exit the room, maybe muttering "Nor pagan".


Merry humbug.