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Christmas is Rapidly Approaching

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10 Dec 2025

I am not even remotely ready this year. I hadn't even started picking up the few things I'd intended to get until today. Thankfully, I haven't exactly got much to get. But wow, I am so over Christmas.

Mind you, I'm not really into any holiday. They're just all fake, over commercialised days that don't mean anything. If you need to spend one specific day attempting to show how much someone means to you by spending money, you're going wrong during the rest of the year.

I do enjoy the time off, though. So I'll take it.

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