Winter Schminter

[Willow Sylph]

I abso-farkin-lutely can't stand the x-mas (see, can't even spell it out) holiday. I can't stand winter.
1) X-mas is a constant reminder to me that I am alone, because most of my family doesn't celebrate it (it's against their religion).
2) X-mastime reminds me of all the years when we did spend time together as a family - one of the very fews time throughout the year.
3) X-mas is too expensive. How the heck do people afford this holiday?! I can barely afford to take care of myself and my son, much less buy gifts for a bunch of people at work that I really don't want to get gifts for, but am pressured to buy for anyway. And after I'm done spending money buying gifts for them, I don't have anymore money to buy for the people I'd really like to buy gifts for.
4) Winter is too dark. I cannot stand leaving work, a place that I have to spend most of my life at, only to go outside to darkness and cold.
5) tend to feel way less motivated during the winter.

Am I the only person who feels like this? What do you guys do to "cure the winter blahs"?