Apox on Christmas

I wonder if I used that word right. Or is it two words? -- A Pox? or Apox? Should there be an extra "x"? Apoxx? Looks like the name of a Comic Book villian.

I've got the Christmas Shopping done. Jim asked me what I wanted for Christmas.
"Wait a minute! I thought you'd said we weren't going to buy presents for each other this year."
He wants to get me something. Then I'll feel bad cuz I haven't gotten him anything. But he argues that there were things that I'd bought for him earlier in the year that were Christmas gifts. I said I'd gotten them for him because I wanted to. I only called them Christmas presents so he wouldn't insist on paying me back for them. Jim argues that I've bought him so much. He wants to give me something. I tell him having that morning together was Christmas present enough for me.
"No," he argued, "I want to give you something physical. Tangible."

The folks are having Christmas tomorrow morning. Jim's off this afternoon for his 'Family Christmas To-Do'. As bleak are things are, I suppose the fact that it's Christmas alone should be a good band-aid until we're together again. You don't need money to have a good Christmas. But you do need togetherness. Family's supposed to be important this time of year. But my family's exceptionally dysfunctional.(I know, "isn't everyones?") It just makes my teeth itch sometimes.

Christmas time is a good time for writing horror stories, eh? I need to get back to work.(If I had a nickle everytime I gave myself an encouragement to write...)

Happy Christmas Everyone!