and so this is xmas

As others have put their feelings towards christmas down i shall follow. This has never been a happy time for me, filled with long memories of christmas past. In a previous life that is before we moved up here I had always been in casual labour hire employment. Usually by this time of the year the factories which i had been working in on a regular basis would have closed for christmas and therefore all income would have stopped. Yes I would have had heaps of overtime and therefore lots of money in the bank. but... usually by this time I would have registration on a car, insurance car and contents, plus I knew very well that sometime between 24th dec and 1st jan someone was going to come around and read the power, gas and water meters, therefore no money. So down to centrelink I would go, the hour long drive into geelong full well knowing that my regular job would go back in feb so that we would have money to buy food for christmas. Ahh the bad old days, always bleak. Thankfuly those days are behind us and while yes I have to work through the christmas and new year period I'd rather that than no money and no food for 2 months.