One of my pet peeves is everywhere you go there's Xmas muzak. Yak. Come to think of it, I kinda don't like Xmas either. Because the gifts given and received were 50/50 and the holiday stole the buzz away from my B-day (on the 28th). There wasn't a real Santa and we didn't have a chimeny in our apartment. Oh, Ebenezer Scrooge is also one of my heroes. HumBug!!