I'm a grinch

Last year I really tried to get in the Christmas spirit but I think I'm a natural grinch and it's an uphill battle. This year, after a long and terrible year, I just can't be bothered. There isn't a single decoration, strand of lights, or Christmas cookie in my house. Are there any reformed grinches out there that have advice on how to shed the grinchiness? The company I work for does Christmas lights and I start dealing with Christmas in July, so by the time December comes around I'm burned out on decorating.

I like giving gifts and service, I enjoy the music (within reason) especially live concerts, but everything else gets me down. The eleventy million obligations, the forced "cheer", the greed and gluttony, the blindingly ostentatious consumerism, the dark, the cold, the fact that the holiday and most of its traditions is cobbled together with co-opted pieces of other religions and if anyone broaches that subject they say it's a war on Christmas. I'm not jewish but for the last 5 years I've hosted a Hanukkah dinner instead of a Christmas party because if I go to one more Ugly Sweater/White Elephant/$10 gift exchange/Cookie Buffet party I swear I will snap.

I also need to watch out for run on sentences. So how do I change my cynical ways? I signed up for the secret santa exchange here and I enjoyed picking out the gift and sending it off but I was left wondering if it really was going to make a difference.