Christmas is an empty consumer holiday where one must purchase obligatory gifts lest he or she be whisked away to the leper colony of reason. Let me tell you. I'd rather hang with the reasonable lepers than with those forcing their greed and consumer obsessions upon me.
Also, thankfully I'm at least a thousand miles away from those boring family holiday gatherings where the teevee is playing a football game, the conversation is so lifeless and dull that, in order to remain sane, I crack open a few beers and then some whiskey. My family, like most families it seems, have done nothing interesting with their lives and try to get you to mired in their rut.
Thanksgiving, away from the family, was an entire blur. Drink, drink, drink. That's all I did.
Being Dec 14th, I've been sober for three days. My record is a month (usually I crack at two weeks) so hopefully I don't give in to cravings, boredom and depression this time.