So they had another couple of Christmas specials on last night. Shrek the Halls (yeah, I didn't make that up) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I think they're going to run out of specials before we're even close to the Big Day. On that note, isn't it a bit of a letdown? I mean, we spend close to 4 months (if you go by the store's schedule of marketing) building up to Christmas. I'm talking decorations and songs and overdoses of nostalgia and then December 25th roles up and BAM! gone. Nothing. The big thrill is over without any gradual weaning from the holly and poinsettia. It's like Christmas is a drug and everyone has to quit cold turkey. Make sense, probably not. Pretty much as soon as 12/25 is over, everything shuts down, the songs stop, the decorations come down and the only thing to look forward to is the after-Christmas clearance sales and credit card bills. Am I the only one noticing this?
25 1/2 more shopping days at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The countdown has begun
Okay, so we should all be over our turkey hangover, and if you were brave enough to venture out during Black Friday you know that Christmas (or Holiday, if you're overly-PC) fever has hit. From now until December 25th, I'm sure to have many posts devoted to the various aspects of the season.
This said I feel I must comment on A Charlie Brown Christmas. This is one of the constants of the Christmas season. When we were kids, we knew that we would see Charlie Brown, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Christmas Story (you'll shoot your eye out!). I'm sure I'll be posting about the last of the list closer towards C-Day. 24 hours of A Christmas Story on TNT and/or TBS. 'Nuff said. Anywho, back to Charlie Brown.
They showed this tonight and I was struck by two things. One, it seems way too early for this to be shown. It's not even December yet and they're already showing the Christmas specials. I guess I shouldn't be surprised when stores are putting out Christmas crap even before Halloween. Sad, but true.
Two, we may never see more specials made after say 1990 that has "Christmas" in the title. Now we're all so politically correct that it must be "Holiday". They even mentioned today on The Morning Mash-Up (gratuitous Sirius plug here) that Lowes, a.k.a. We're The Other Home Depot, is no longer offering Christmas trees. They are now known as "Family Holiday Trees." A little over the top? Ya think?!? I understand the desire to keep everyone happy but it's winter, after Thanksgiving, which in America, and for a good chunk of the world, this means Christmas. Does everyone celebrate it, no, but I don't think it's too much to hope that not everyone will be offended by saying "Merry Christmas." I blame the people that have nothing better to do with their time than to wreck stuff for other people. I think these are the same people that watch every television show and movie and then write to the FCC, MPAA, FBI, PTA, etc., to narc out every curse word, sexual innuendo, and possible phallyic symbol in the place and wreck it for everyone else. Thanks guys.
Is that what that was on The Little Mermaid box? at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.
This said I feel I must comment on A Charlie Brown Christmas. This is one of the constants of the Christmas season. When we were kids, we knew that we would see Charlie Brown, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Christmas Story (you'll shoot your eye out!). I'm sure I'll be posting about the last of the list closer towards C-Day. 24 hours of A Christmas Story on TNT and/or TBS. 'Nuff said. Anywho, back to Charlie Brown.
They showed this tonight and I was struck by two things. One, it seems way too early for this to be shown. It's not even December yet and they're already showing the Christmas specials. I guess I shouldn't be surprised when stores are putting out Christmas crap even before Halloween. Sad, but true.
Two, we may never see more specials made after say 1990 that has "Christmas" in the title. Now we're all so politically correct that it must be "Holiday". They even mentioned today on The Morning Mash-Up (gratuitous Sirius plug here) that Lowes, a.k.a. We're The Other Home Depot, is no longer offering Christmas trees. They are now known as "Family Holiday Trees." A little over the top? Ya think?!? I understand the desire to keep everyone happy but it's winter, after Thanksgiving, which in America, and for a good chunk of the world, this means Christmas. Does everyone celebrate it, no, but I don't think it's too much to hope that not everyone will be offended by saying "Merry Christmas." I blame the people that have nothing better to do with their time than to wreck stuff for other people. I think these are the same people that watch every television show and movie and then write to the FCC, MPAA, FBI, PTA, etc., to narc out every curse word, sexual innuendo, and possible phallyic symbol in the place and wreck it for everyone else. Thanks guys.
Is that what that was on The Little Mermaid box? at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Black roses for everyone!
We all know my opinion of The Bachelor. Thus I found myself in front of the television (big surprise, right?) last night as I watched Samantha Who? which is actually pretty good. Unfortunately I was sucked into watching portions of the dreaded finale of that last bastion of chauvinism which is The Bachelor. If you haven't been living under a rock for the last few years, you should know that on the season finale The Bachelor (I so like the fact that it's capitalized, illustrating his manliness) in question drops a rose on the last woman that hasn't become so disgusted with her gag-inducing performances from the last few weeks or so, thus the engagement! How likely are the impending nuptuals? Going by the track record of the previous Bachelors, I'd say they have less than a 5% chance of actually getting married, but that's just my opinion. Onto the show...
Well, guess Mr. Bar Owner decided he didn't want to be married to either one of the ladies left from the catfight from hell. Not that I blame him. I only saw a bit of the upcoming previews and was ready to ralph from the nastiness that was spewing from their mouths. "I love you and would do anything for you!!!" said one woman. "I like how I've felt the last few weeks and want to continue to feel this way," said another. I would too if I got to stay in a mansion and date a hot guy with no strings attached. Whatever. I about laughed my butt off when he didn't choose either. Some people were all tweaked out about that. "How could he do that to those girls? He said he'd be honest, what a jerk." Like the girls didn't know going in that they could be dumped on national television. Once again, whatever.
You go Brad! at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.
Well, guess Mr. Bar Owner decided he didn't want to be married to either one of the ladies left from the catfight from hell. Not that I blame him. I only saw a bit of the upcoming previews and was ready to ralph from the nastiness that was spewing from their mouths. "I love you and would do anything for you!!!" said one woman. "I like how I've felt the last few weeks and want to continue to feel this way," said another. I would too if I got to stay in a mansion and date a hot guy with no strings attached. Whatever. I about laughed my butt off when he didn't choose either. Some people were all tweaked out about that. "How could he do that to those girls? He said he'd be honest, what a jerk." Like the girls didn't know going in that they could be dumped on national television. Once again, whatever.
You go Brad! at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.
Friday, November 09, 2007
Underachievers Unite!
I'm such a shlub. It's been almost six years since my last child was born. I am overweight by about 40 lbs. still though I'm working on it. I know, I'm lazy, but hey, better late than never right? Well, I thought that too until I read this. Now I feel like a major underachiever, and a real fat ass. Guess it goes with the territory.
I'm just waiting for the hate mail
Okay, so I've never been superhuge on politics. Reason being is that no matter what your party affiliation, be it Democrat or Republican, whoever gets voted into the White House will probably suck. It's just the way things go.
However, it seems that ol' W sucks more than most lately. I can't think of another president that got us into a war, our economy in the toilet, the dollar not being worth much to the rest of the world and creating a deficit like you wouldn't believe. Maybe it's just me but I think he needs to go.
For all those W'04 folks, are you happy? Just wondering. I'm not saying that John Kerry would have been much better, but I don't think he could have been much worse. It's pretty sad when you ask people who they're voting for and more responses were, "Well, I'm not voting for John Kerry as much as I'm voting against George Bush." Yeah, good times.
I only bring this up as there are more and more concerns with all this money that has been appropriated for the war and then not being accounted for. The State Department can't account for over 1 billion (yep with a "b") dollars, yet the President is asking for more money. I don't think it's all for the troops since they still complain about not having the right amount of materials, supplies, appropriate equipment, and we all know they're not getting paid what they should. My guess is that this going to all those government contractors (Halliburton) that have done such a good job so far (Blackwater) in supporting the war on terror and freeing the people of Iraq.
Anyone else wondering what happened to the fight in Afghanistan? Isn't that where Osama bin Laden is supposed to be? Isn't he the one that they said masterminded the whole 9/11 plot and that's the reason why we needed to go to war? So what's up with Iraq? No WMDs, Sadaam's gone, and the people aren't any freer. So why go to war? To help the oppressed people of Iraq? Probably not because if that were the case we'd be in a whole lot more countries trying to help those folks like in Darfur. Well, they don't have vast oil reserves there do they? Was that out loud?
Okay, so that was my rant for the day. I'm sure I'm getting something from a Bush supporter coming my way. Hopefully it won't be ticking.
Hoping for a new perspective at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.
However, it seems that ol' W sucks more than most lately. I can't think of another president that got us into a war, our economy in the toilet, the dollar not being worth much to the rest of the world and creating a deficit like you wouldn't believe. Maybe it's just me but I think he needs to go.
For all those W'04 folks, are you happy? Just wondering. I'm not saying that John Kerry would have been much better, but I don't think he could have been much worse. It's pretty sad when you ask people who they're voting for and more responses were, "Well, I'm not voting for John Kerry as much as I'm voting against George Bush." Yeah, good times.
I only bring this up as there are more and more concerns with all this money that has been appropriated for the war and then not being accounted for. The State Department can't account for over 1 billion (yep with a "b") dollars, yet the President is asking for more money. I don't think it's all for the troops since they still complain about not having the right amount of materials, supplies, appropriate equipment, and we all know they're not getting paid what they should. My guess is that this going to all those government contractors (Halliburton) that have done such a good job so far (Blackwater) in supporting the war on terror and freeing the people of Iraq.
Anyone else wondering what happened to the fight in Afghanistan? Isn't that where Osama bin Laden is supposed to be? Isn't he the one that they said masterminded the whole 9/11 plot and that's the reason why we needed to go to war? So what's up with Iraq? No WMDs, Sadaam's gone, and the people aren't any freer. So why go to war? To help the oppressed people of Iraq? Probably not because if that were the case we'd be in a whole lot more countries trying to help those folks like in Darfur. Well, they don't have vast oil reserves there do they? Was that out loud?
Okay, so that was my rant for the day. I'm sure I'm getting something from a Bush supporter coming my way. Hopefully it won't be ticking.
Hoping for a new perspective at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
God bless the snow birds
Okay, I'm momentarily speechless to see that someone besides my best friend (Miss Tamarita!!!) read some of my blog. Yeah!!!!! Extra exclamation points for everyone!!!!! Pass them around equally.
Alright, my momentary lapse of sanity is behind me...for the moment anyway. So I have to have at least one rant about the ludicrousness (is that a word?) of how the snow birds drive down here. In case you haven't read my previous post on the joys of driving in Florida during Season, please feel free to use this as a reference. It took me a whopping hour to get home last night. Generally the same drive takes between 20 and 30 minutes. Why the delay you ask? Accident? Construction? Nope, a whole crapload of people from the Great White North down here for their annual pilgrimage to the warm sunny weather of Florida. Average age of said pilgrims is roughly 900, and yet they're all still driving. Oh the horror. I managed to pass the single-file line of Lexuses, BMWs, Mercedes, etc. that the affluent masses tend to gravitate to and pass them at what felt like lightspeed, but in reality was a whopping 55 mph. How sad is that?
I think they do it on purpose. I'm not generally a conspiracy theorist, but when some little old lady cuts me off to drive 40 in a 55 zone, I think it's on purpose. I'm waiting for the stroke to hit.
Only 6 more months of this at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.
Alright, my momentary lapse of sanity is behind me...for the moment anyway. So I have to have at least one rant about the ludicrousness (is that a word?) of how the snow birds drive down here. In case you haven't read my previous post on the joys of driving in Florida during Season, please feel free to use this as a reference. It took me a whopping hour to get home last night. Generally the same drive takes between 20 and 30 minutes. Why the delay you ask? Accident? Construction? Nope, a whole crapload of people from the Great White North down here for their annual pilgrimage to the warm sunny weather of Florida. Average age of said pilgrims is roughly 900, and yet they're all still driving. Oh the horror. I managed to pass the single-file line of Lexuses, BMWs, Mercedes, etc. that the affluent masses tend to gravitate to and pass them at what felt like lightspeed, but in reality was a whopping 55 mph. How sad is that?
I think they do it on purpose. I'm not generally a conspiracy theorist, but when some little old lady cuts me off to drive 40 in a 55 zone, I think it's on purpose. I'm waiting for the stroke to hit.
Only 6 more months of this at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.
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