May it be filled with an optimal amount of persons, places, things, stuff, and other things.

And the recognition of the fact that this whole overcommercialized holiday racket is over until at least next August (and thank God for that).

Seriously, why can't they overcommercialize and ruin some crappy holiday like Arbor Day or something? ("Okay, kids, finish planting your poplars and get off to bed - or else Treebeard won't leave you those new bikes.") Why Christmas?

Well, I guess on the bright side, they haven't totally ruined Easter yet, and that holiday is more important, I think. To me, it seems like Thanksgiving would be a good time to give gifts. I mean, if Thanksgiving was started to give thanks for an abundant harvest, it seems like gift-giving would be nicely symbolic for the abundant overflow of crops by giving stuff from one person to another.

Better yet, why can't everybody just have two birthdays a year and spread the economic load out a bit?

Oh well. Happy New Year.