It's Christmas blog... correction.. It's Yule blog.

Christmas, that true, capitalism power celebration, time of the year for most suicides, most domestic violence and on top of that, lot's of people who really don't have money, still waste all the money for gifts.

Still, I love Christmas. I just strongly fight against the Coca Cola- Santa, and corporation demand for gifts for all. Christmas is pagan celebration, church start to ruin it, but because paganism is strong in people, they gave up and decided it's birthday of middle-eastern guy.

Don't know what it tells about we Finnish, but our word for Christmas is Joulu, that's quite close the original pagan name of this celebration, Yule.

Anyhow... To me, Christmas/Yule is time of relax, family and good food. Basically I'm rooting for basic Yule idea, before christians ruined it.. Basically Yule is about drinking, eating and fucking.

oh well..

I know I'm not alone in this. I know there's a lot of people who feel the same way. How Beautiful celebration has been turned to slave people, slave to corporations, waste money to nothing.

I wait Christmas/Yule, first time for long time.I, directly, haven't bought any presents. Indirectly there has been one gift bought. One gift we made by our self, and I have not bothered my head by any more gifts.

Yule is not about gifts, it never was, and I wont go in to any more about that, if you are interested there's something in wikipedia about that.. too

I just wanted to let you know, that even that I hate the capitalism and how it has ruined this beautiful winter fest.. I still love it. Not because of gifts.. or decoration.. Eating is big part of it, because usually we eat little bit... smaller :D ... back when I was alcoholic (well, I'm still, but I keep fighting to keep my self out of it) this was good reason to open bottle, (Like eastern, weekend, "hey I found my sock's ,were)... but now.. this particular Yule. I enjoy because...

There's house we live in, it's house that feels more home that any adult life "home" before. There's baking oven in this house, and I love to bake bread and slowly roast meat. There's firefplace, but funny enough we can't use both, fireplace and baking oven at the same time, because smoke issues. We have Sauna, own sauna, we decide when we warm it.
We have food (as I told you, I love food), We have moose meat, I'm thinking to make two different kind of meat.. One I .. smoke? and another in the baking oven. Then there's Salmon, I'm not sure yet do we smoke that too, or in the oven... or maybe cook on open fire.. Oh yeah, we have that tiny ... building with a another fireplace in it.. so.. there'll be food making in there. hmm.. where was I... we have Cheese, lot's of different cheeses.. hmmmmm.. I love good cheese. Then there's some, not much, candy, some turkey, and.. and... I can't remember more.. I got suddenly hungry.

Anyhow.. and... there's no more plans for Yule. Only family ( +maybe on friend who is more like family), some movies, maybe games, but most of all.. Just.. be among family and enjoy.

Anyhow... I'm a pagan deep inside me. apatheist pagan.