User blog comment:Kagimizu/Broken/@comment-1617565-20121225230314/@comment-1272757-20121226004052

I know that Hunt. But the end result is not what I have a problem with. It's how it got there. Like traveling to Hawai'i by plane, or by rickety fishing boat. Either way you'd be in Hawai'i, so "the end result is the same", but the journey is very different.

You at least had the choice Hunt. You can take all of that and say "I chose to do this. I'm here by my decision, not the choices of others." I didn't have that. The only thing I had a choice in at all with this last month was the 360 deal I made with my parents. I didn't get to choose what happened; the most I could do was react to what other people did.

I can't say that what I went through was worse than what you did in terms of Christmas Hunt. But after today I'm truly questioning whether or not I had a Christmas. We had the tree, we had the gift wrapped presents, we had the decorations. But today hasn't filled me with much holiday cheer. Rather than being able to hug my parents on a holiday I ended up having a fight with them. My Christmas wasn't worse than yours Hunt, but it was hardly a day of celebration that made this whole month better. And quite frankly, that's all I wanted: a single day that would make this whole month feel better somehow. Quite honestly I'd be happy with no gifts at all if something happened to make all the crap that's happened this month feel somehow far away or not nearly as bad as it was. But so far I'm still waiting, and nothing seems to be coming around.

So my earnest condolences Hunter, but my "Christmas" wasn't exactly eggnog and candy canes either. Not as bad as yours, but far from great either.