The sun is shining today!!! Yeah, I’m a little bit excited, but then again, it’s been raining like monsoon season and we are overrun with mud!! But then again, we are usually overrun with mud.
Anyway, the dogs around here are laying around like bumps on logs, snorting and snoring, coughing and growling. They are basically the sound effects for a low budget horror movie! One of the horror movies where the dumb blond opens the door to see what the horrible sounds on the other side is. Yup, it’s that bad!!
While the dogs wile away their time dreaming of pork bones and chicken strips, the cats are deep in sleep after having done their best to destroy the house. Running and sliding they have had the time of their lives. It doesn't bother us much until they begin the Feline Olympics.
What, you ask, are the Feline Olympics? Well, if any of you own more than one cat you probably have a pretty good idea. It’s where the cats decide, usually at two or three in the morning, that they just HAVE to see how fast they can make the circuit around the house. It doesn't matter if there are inanimate or animate objects in the way, they simply MUST run around the house like someone has set their tails on fire.
The main event of Feline Olympics usually involves two or more evil minded cats that honestly believe they can climb the walls!! Yup, that is the Imaginary Red Dot event! What happens in one of the fur covered demons starts staring on a particular point on the wall, usually this point is at least four feet above their head. The other hideous creatures will stop whatever mischief they are involved in the very second they realize their brethren has seen something interesting.
Once the offending feline has the attention of his cohorts, he will leap into the air, executing a perfect back flip and proceed to act as though he has caught the great invisible dot!! As soon as his little pointy nails hit the floor, he will begin the ritual “try to catch the dot” dance that is genetically handed down from mother to kit. Back and forth his paws will go as he zigs left and zags right, tapping and swatting the floor with every movement.
His furry followers will mimic his actions, jerking and swatting, bouncing and twisting, as though there were a thousand red dots dancing across the surface of the floor. Once he has them fully engaged, he will stop his silliness and launch himself to the highest surface he can reach. There he will sit, wide eyed and innocent, as his fellows swat and jerk, twitch and writhe as though they were being electrocuted.
When it finally dawns on them that the instigator of the entire mess is no longer participating their action will recede to an occasional swat at something no human can see. Then the Olympic part of the event actually begins.
In a flash the high mounted feline will launch himself from his perch and scramble and slide across the floor, finally finding his footing to run into the other room, over top of this fellow kittens, the couch, you….whatever stands in his way. He will circle like a Nascar driver, up on the side of the wall in a tight curve only to shoot off in the opposite direction at a speed unreachable by man made machinery.
Of course this sets off a chemical response in the feet of any other feline within sight. They will jump and leap, scramble and slide, before finally reaching a level footing to speed off after the “lead car” in our official Nascat race! Around the doorway they go,sliding and crashing into the opposite wall, their feet digging for purchase on the linoleum floor. Off into the straight, yellow cat with short tail in the lead when from behind comes big, fat grey cat who stomps over top of short tail leaving him a gasping heap in the middle of the hall.
Around the bend they come, fat grey cat misjudges the curve and slams into the coffee table leg then struggles to his feet. While he is getting his balance, the long tail yellow cat comes out of no where, leaps onto the couch, over the dog, across the back and is on his way around the next curve by the time the old dog raises her head to snap at the now absent feline.
Fat grey cat, being the cheat that he is, rushes down the hallway, slams into long tail yellow cat and the fur begins to fly. The ensuing racket awakens the canine hoard who leap to their feet and rush in from all directions. Barks, growls, screams and yowls ensue until, finally, the long tail yellow cat escapes his tormentor only to pounce on his short tailed brother who had been watching the attempted murder with an insane gleam in his yellow eyes.
More screams, more yowls, more barks until finally the human has had enough!!! Grabbing a rolled up newspaper and a spray bottle of water the human wages war on the feline hoard. A few canines are injured (yeah right, newspaper and water) in the ensuing battle, but they survive to limp back to their respective sleeping spots as the feline dart and scramble for cover.
At last, silence, aww sweet silence. Which last for approximately twenty seconds before round two of the Feline Olympics, shred the newspaper, begins!!
So much for sleep!!
Stumbling to the kitchen I make a cup of coffee and stand there, bleary eyed and tired, as the offending felines turn their unblinking eyes toward me. Having achieved their goal of getting me out of bed, they amble off, each one in search of a perch for their day long cat nap.
The canines, realizing that the coast is clear and no claws are around, rush into the kitchen, yipping and prancing in the morning, “Oh my God you’re awake, I gotta pee, Can I go out, Oh My God You’re awake” ritual. I slowly walk to the door and throw it open, hoping this morning will be a quick, gotta pee now and not sniff everything in sight morning……I was sadly mistaken. Twenty minutes later the canines are back in the house, warm and snug in their beds, sound asleep and dreaming of chicken strips and pork bones.
A tapping at the back door informs me that my animal encounter has only begun. Two bushy tailed intruders are demanding their corn, tapping at the door and staring in like stalkers trying to catch a glimpse. It’s feeding time, birds, squirrels and outdoor cats are demanding my attention, as long as my attention includes having something for them to eat!
My coffee grows cold as I attend to the needs of the various and sunder creatures who think they own me!
And thus starts my Monday!!
Monday, December 29, 2014
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Things to buy, things to get rid of
For those of you that don’t know, I am sort of a technology geek. Yup, I would love to have all the newest gadgets and toys, but, being a poverty stricken middle aged woman who is struggling to survive, I cannot do that. So, I make my choices wisely as to what I am going to purchase.
Lately I have been lusting after a particular link2cell cordless phone system. It’s not horribly expensive, but it is expensive enough that I have been debating the purchase for months. I’ve done the budgeting thing, I’ve done the saving, I’ve done the research…..the one thing I have NOT done is decide WHY this particular item has such a hold on my greedy, I GOT TO HAVE THIS side.
Maybe it’s so I can say that I HAVE one. Or maybe it’s because I want to be able to use my cell phone without going outside and leaning on the tree by the road in order to get proper reception. Yeah, it’s probably the latter one……
You see, I live in RURAL AMERICA. Sounds peaceful and sedate, right? It is. But it’s also a pain in the ass. You see, in order to have proper cell reception you have to make sure that you are standing perfectly still in the proper location on a clear day/night that has NO cloud cover or wind. You also have to pray that there are no low flying birds or large insects between you and the cell tower that you can’t even see from your location. It’s a crap shoot really, but one that I can take care of if only……..
That’s the rub, that elusive “if only”. If only I could cut down each and every tree in the four mile line of sight between here and the tower. If only I could purchase every structure standing between me and the tower, if only I could own the air space and prevent ANYTHING from a sparrow to a gnat from flying between me and the cell tower……if only I didn't live in a place where all technology is treated like a bad science fiction story!!
SO my greedy little tech crazy heart is pinning its hopes on the Link2cell system. You see, if, and it’s a big if, you have half way decent reception in one area of your home, you can link your cell phone to this amazing little cordless phone system. Whenever your cell phone rings it will ring the house phone and you can use the cordless handset like a regular land-line phone. It’s set up on a Bluetooth link between cell phone and the cordless base. The unit comes with three handsets and you can link up to two cell phones!! Yup, sounds good, right!!
Now why, you ask, do you not just have a land line? Well, the answer is simple. Frontier Communications owns our phone system. And Frontier has decided, for whatever half ass reason, that they don’t want to put any more money than necessary in our equipment. In my area the substation is older than I am and was meant to handle 40-50 households……it has over 118 households to date. The substation was suppose to be upgraded, but once again, Frontier in their wisdom has failed to do so. The Utilities Commission has given them until April of 2015, but of course it was suppose to be upgraded by August of 2014 and it wasn't. Frontier says they are “doing the best they can” which translates into We don’t want to screw with it!!
Our phone will go out if the wind blows, literally! It doesn't have to be 50 mile an hour winds either, the breeze from a fly’s wings is enough to put the phone out for a day or six. If it rains you can forget making any calls. There are times when you can’t call out unless someone calls in first. Then you can make exactly ONE outgoing phone call. After that it’s a waiting game. Other times you can make outgoing calls, but if someone tries to call in it goes straight to voice-mail and never rings!! It has been known to cut you off in the middle of a call and then isolate you from phone contact for a week!
And what does Frontier say? Nine times out of ten when you make a repair call they will send one of the six Frontier employees that live and work in this are to your house. They will diddle around for twenty minutes or so and then look you in the eye and say, “There’s nothing wrong with the line, it has to be in the house.” When you point out that it only happens when it rains or is windy and that the interior of the house never suffers through either of those conditions, they will insist that THEY know best and that it IS in the house. They will come in and screw around, basically wasting time and earning money, then hand you a DSL filter and leave.
The repair ticket will be closed and the main office will tell you that it is fixed. Even though all parties involved KNOW that it isn't fixed and that it will be only a matter of time before you replay the same scenario over again.
And the internet, the HIGH SPEED INTERNET?? Yeah, right, high speed if you’re a geriatric turtle! Hell, I had to download an update for one of my graphic programs, the update was all of 517k…..it took almost 5 hours!!!! I could have driven to the manufactures factory and gotten a CD hot off the press in the length of time it took to update the old program!
IF Frontier would upgrade things we might, maybe, possibly have internet speeds that would allow us to say, oh, play a game on Facebook or, dare I say it, watch Netflix without pausing it for over an hour so you can watch twenty uninterrupted minutes. Or make and receive phone calls even when a bird flies past the wire! Yup, it’s that bad.
Thank you Frontier!!
All of these problems and more have driven me to spend the money on a Link2cell system. I’ve taken the plunge, I've ordered it and it will be on its way to me within the next five days! When that box arrives I will tear it open, devour the instructions and then set the thing up and let it charge. Then I will wait, something I should be used to. And when the time is right, when the planets align and the birds roost, I will make that first experimental phone call.
If it works I will rejoice!!!
If it doesn’t, I will return my new toy and buy a chainsaw!
Lately I have been lusting after a particular link2cell cordless phone system. It’s not horribly expensive, but it is expensive enough that I have been debating the purchase for months. I’ve done the budgeting thing, I’ve done the saving, I’ve done the research…..the one thing I have NOT done is decide WHY this particular item has such a hold on my greedy, I GOT TO HAVE THIS side.
Maybe it’s so I can say that I HAVE one. Or maybe it’s because I want to be able to use my cell phone without going outside and leaning on the tree by the road in order to get proper reception. Yeah, it’s probably the latter one……
You see, I live in RURAL AMERICA. Sounds peaceful and sedate, right? It is. But it’s also a pain in the ass. You see, in order to have proper cell reception you have to make sure that you are standing perfectly still in the proper location on a clear day/night that has NO cloud cover or wind. You also have to pray that there are no low flying birds or large insects between you and the cell tower that you can’t even see from your location. It’s a crap shoot really, but one that I can take care of if only……..
That’s the rub, that elusive “if only”. If only I could cut down each and every tree in the four mile line of sight between here and the tower. If only I could purchase every structure standing between me and the tower, if only I could own the air space and prevent ANYTHING from a sparrow to a gnat from flying between me and the cell tower……if only I didn't live in a place where all technology is treated like a bad science fiction story!!
SO my greedy little tech crazy heart is pinning its hopes on the Link2cell system. You see, if, and it’s a big if, you have half way decent reception in one area of your home, you can link your cell phone to this amazing little cordless phone system. Whenever your cell phone rings it will ring the house phone and you can use the cordless handset like a regular land-line phone. It’s set up on a Bluetooth link between cell phone and the cordless base. The unit comes with three handsets and you can link up to two cell phones!! Yup, sounds good, right!!
Now why, you ask, do you not just have a land line? Well, the answer is simple. Frontier Communications owns our phone system. And Frontier has decided, for whatever half ass reason, that they don’t want to put any more money than necessary in our equipment. In my area the substation is older than I am and was meant to handle 40-50 households……it has over 118 households to date. The substation was suppose to be upgraded, but once again, Frontier in their wisdom has failed to do so. The Utilities Commission has given them until April of 2015, but of course it was suppose to be upgraded by August of 2014 and it wasn't. Frontier says they are “doing the best they can” which translates into We don’t want to screw with it!!
Our phone will go out if the wind blows, literally! It doesn't have to be 50 mile an hour winds either, the breeze from a fly’s wings is enough to put the phone out for a day or six. If it rains you can forget making any calls. There are times when you can’t call out unless someone calls in first. Then you can make exactly ONE outgoing phone call. After that it’s a waiting game. Other times you can make outgoing calls, but if someone tries to call in it goes straight to voice-mail and never rings!! It has been known to cut you off in the middle of a call and then isolate you from phone contact for a week!
And what does Frontier say? Nine times out of ten when you make a repair call they will send one of the six Frontier employees that live and work in this are to your house. They will diddle around for twenty minutes or so and then look you in the eye and say, “There’s nothing wrong with the line, it has to be in the house.” When you point out that it only happens when it rains or is windy and that the interior of the house never suffers through either of those conditions, they will insist that THEY know best and that it IS in the house. They will come in and screw around, basically wasting time and earning money, then hand you a DSL filter and leave.
The repair ticket will be closed and the main office will tell you that it is fixed. Even though all parties involved KNOW that it isn't fixed and that it will be only a matter of time before you replay the same scenario over again.
And the internet, the HIGH SPEED INTERNET?? Yeah, right, high speed if you’re a geriatric turtle! Hell, I had to download an update for one of my graphic programs, the update was all of 517k…..it took almost 5 hours!!!! I could have driven to the manufactures factory and gotten a CD hot off the press in the length of time it took to update the old program!
IF Frontier would upgrade things we might, maybe, possibly have internet speeds that would allow us to say, oh, play a game on Facebook or, dare I say it, watch Netflix without pausing it for over an hour so you can watch twenty uninterrupted minutes. Or make and receive phone calls even when a bird flies past the wire! Yup, it’s that bad.
Thank you Frontier!!
All of these problems and more have driven me to spend the money on a Link2cell system. I’ve taken the plunge, I've ordered it and it will be on its way to me within the next five days! When that box arrives I will tear it open, devour the instructions and then set the thing up and let it charge. Then I will wait, something I should be used to. And when the time is right, when the planets align and the birds roost, I will make that first experimental phone call.
If it works I will rejoice!!!
If it doesn’t, I will return my new toy and buy a chainsaw!
Sexual dysfunction…..
Have any of you seen that commercial that says “If you have suffered injuries or serious side effects caused by a drug you are taking for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED), you may have a defective product liability claim”?
Now, let’s just stop for a second and think about that…….”injuries”? That brings to mind a million scenarios'. Maybe it’s just because I’m a twisted bitch, but the concept of sharpening a pencil down to a nub keeps running through my mind!! I know that’s not possible, but still, that’s what I imagine.
I know there are lawsuits going on right now saying that these various and sunder ED drugs “may” cause skin cancer. That brings yet another mental picture to mind, this one is not near as funny and is rather gross and, well, walking deadish, which of course leads my twisted little brain to breeding zombies and how much trouble Daryl would be in surrounded by little green/brown ankle biters!!
Anyway, my mind doesn't work the way normal people’s do. Nope, nope, nope, mine explores the extreme with the delight of a three year old with a trunk of candy!! I know it’s not good for me, but I just can’t help myself!!
I don’t understand the whole thing. Although I don’t have the particular parts that are necessary to need ED drugs, I still have to wonder about the mentality of anyone that will listen an advertisement that says, “Consult your Doctor to see if you are healthy enough to engage in sex.”
Maybe it’s just me, but if I were a man and my penis wasn't working I would probably have the opinion that I was NOT healthy enough for sex. Not to mention, if it’s not working, you probably shouldn't try to use it anyway. That’s like trying to drive your car with no wheels, or use a flashlight with no batteries……it’s a waste of time.
And the medical industry seems to think if your penis doesn't work, take a pill and it will!! Yup!! But if you have an erection for more than four hours consult your doctor (I hope the doctor is attractive and capable of handling a four hour long erection!!). If you have tingling in your arms, legs, chest or head, or if you become dizzy during sexual activity STOP AT ONCE and contact your physician. Personally, sex where my arms/lets/chest/head tingles and I become dizzy is usually because of the position or else it is really, really, REALLY good sex!!!
Do not take if: you use nitrates, you have had a heart attack in the last six months, you have long QT syndrome, high or low blood pressure, seizures, liver or kidney disease, a blood cell disorder, a bleeding disorder, an ulcer, hearing or vision problems or history of hearing/vision lost, eye dis order, deformity of penis or, and these kill me, if you are nursing or pregnant, or attempting to become pregnant or if you have been told you should not have sexual intercourse!! Seriously?? PREGNANT??? If you are pregnant and you need ED medication you should consult the media immediately!! You will be one rich SOB!!
Anyway, there is several lawsuits against the makers of these drugs because of some of the very things they warn you about. Yup, men are suing because they have lost sight in one eye, or they have had a stroke, or their ulcer is bleeding severely!! Of course the lawyers for the drug companies, for what ever reason, haven’t mentioned the fact that the assholes should have read the warnings that are listed in the literature, or even discussed it with their doctors. That’s because there is, believe it or not, a large illegal trade in ED medications!!!
Yup, penis pill pushers!! Illicit erection dealers!!
What the hell??
Anyway, the point I was trying to make is simple, no matter what the drug, no matter if it’s legally obtained or illegally traded, responsibility should lay with the individuals who use said drug!
We've all seen the commercials that scream at us from the television ranting about the blood thinner that causes profuse bleeding (which seems to me like something you would expect if your blood was too thin), the acne medication that causes raging insanity, the breast implants that cause a myriad of health troubles and the blood pressure medication that causes you to black out. All of these things come with mountains of warnings and any competent medical professional will tell you about said side effects.
Yet there are tons of lawsuits! I don’t understand it!!
Can I sue the electric company if I stick a fork into a light socket and get shocked?? I know better, I have been warned against it and told all the horrible things that could happen if I did so, but yet I do it. Who is responsible for the resulting injuries? MonPower or me?
If I scold myself while cooking mac and cheese is it Kraft’s fault??
If I put a can of tuna in the microwave and it catches fire do I sue Chicken of the Sea??
Come on people, were is the responsibility?? Have we become such idiots that we have absolutely no common sense?? Are we so under-educated that we can’t read the warning labels and understand what they mean?
All of these lawsuits and class actions has driven the price of almost every product through the roof. It’s a nationwide fact that many people can’t afford the medication that they have to have in order to continue living. The prices have become ridiculous!! But of course the attorneys are the ones that are actually making out and they are making out well enough that they can afford their drugs, both legal and illegal! Once they have sued for millions of dollars and taken their cut, the individuals that were actually harmed receive next to nothing. And the drug companies raise the prices and those in actual need suffer.
All because some of the idiots of the world refuse to read the labels of chemical compounds that they are putting into their own bodies.
So if your dick is not working, and you get some ED medication and then go blind, remember, it was YOUR idea, not ours. Most of us don’t care if you have a pointer or a hanger as long as you keep it to yourself!
Now, let’s just stop for a second and think about that…….”injuries”? That brings to mind a million scenarios'. Maybe it’s just because I’m a twisted bitch, but the concept of sharpening a pencil down to a nub keeps running through my mind!! I know that’s not possible, but still, that’s what I imagine.
I know there are lawsuits going on right now saying that these various and sunder ED drugs “may” cause skin cancer. That brings yet another mental picture to mind, this one is not near as funny and is rather gross and, well, walking deadish, which of course leads my twisted little brain to breeding zombies and how much trouble Daryl would be in surrounded by little green/brown ankle biters!!
Anyway, my mind doesn't work the way normal people’s do. Nope, nope, nope, mine explores the extreme with the delight of a three year old with a trunk of candy!! I know it’s not good for me, but I just can’t help myself!!
I don’t understand the whole thing. Although I don’t have the particular parts that are necessary to need ED drugs, I still have to wonder about the mentality of anyone that will listen an advertisement that says, “Consult your Doctor to see if you are healthy enough to engage in sex.”
Maybe it’s just me, but if I were a man and my penis wasn't working I would probably have the opinion that I was NOT healthy enough for sex. Not to mention, if it’s not working, you probably shouldn't try to use it anyway. That’s like trying to drive your car with no wheels, or use a flashlight with no batteries……it’s a waste of time.
And the medical industry seems to think if your penis doesn't work, take a pill and it will!! Yup!! But if you have an erection for more than four hours consult your doctor (I hope the doctor is attractive and capable of handling a four hour long erection!!). If you have tingling in your arms, legs, chest or head, or if you become dizzy during sexual activity STOP AT ONCE and contact your physician. Personally, sex where my arms/lets/chest/head tingles and I become dizzy is usually because of the position or else it is really, really, REALLY good sex!!!
Do not take if: you use nitrates, you have had a heart attack in the last six months, you have long QT syndrome, high or low blood pressure, seizures, liver or kidney disease, a blood cell disorder, a bleeding disorder, an ulcer, hearing or vision problems or history of hearing/vision lost, eye dis order, deformity of penis or, and these kill me, if you are nursing or pregnant, or attempting to become pregnant or if you have been told you should not have sexual intercourse!! Seriously?? PREGNANT??? If you are pregnant and you need ED medication you should consult the media immediately!! You will be one rich SOB!!
Anyway, there is several lawsuits against the makers of these drugs because of some of the very things they warn you about. Yup, men are suing because they have lost sight in one eye, or they have had a stroke, or their ulcer is bleeding severely!! Of course the lawyers for the drug companies, for what ever reason, haven’t mentioned the fact that the assholes should have read the warnings that are listed in the literature, or even discussed it with their doctors. That’s because there is, believe it or not, a large illegal trade in ED medications!!!
Yup, penis pill pushers!! Illicit erection dealers!!
What the hell??
Anyway, the point I was trying to make is simple, no matter what the drug, no matter if it’s legally obtained or illegally traded, responsibility should lay with the individuals who use said drug!
We've all seen the commercials that scream at us from the television ranting about the blood thinner that causes profuse bleeding (which seems to me like something you would expect if your blood was too thin), the acne medication that causes raging insanity, the breast implants that cause a myriad of health troubles and the blood pressure medication that causes you to black out. All of these things come with mountains of warnings and any competent medical professional will tell you about said side effects.
Yet there are tons of lawsuits! I don’t understand it!!
Can I sue the electric company if I stick a fork into a light socket and get shocked?? I know better, I have been warned against it and told all the horrible things that could happen if I did so, but yet I do it. Who is responsible for the resulting injuries? MonPower or me?
If I scold myself while cooking mac and cheese is it Kraft’s fault??
If I put a can of tuna in the microwave and it catches fire do I sue Chicken of the Sea??
Come on people, were is the responsibility?? Have we become such idiots that we have absolutely no common sense?? Are we so under-educated that we can’t read the warning labels and understand what they mean?
All of these lawsuits and class actions has driven the price of almost every product through the roof. It’s a nationwide fact that many people can’t afford the medication that they have to have in order to continue living. The prices have become ridiculous!! But of course the attorneys are the ones that are actually making out and they are making out well enough that they can afford their drugs, both legal and illegal! Once they have sued for millions of dollars and taken their cut, the individuals that were actually harmed receive next to nothing. And the drug companies raise the prices and those in actual need suffer.
All because some of the idiots of the world refuse to read the labels of chemical compounds that they are putting into their own bodies.
So if your dick is not working, and you get some ED medication and then go blind, remember, it was YOUR idea, not ours. Most of us don’t care if you have a pointer or a hanger as long as you keep it to yourself!
Friday, December 26, 2014
Is there never a time……
Last night, after having survived the worse Christmas of my life to date, I was watching some movie on television. It was a Christmas movie naturally, I mean it WAS Christmas Day, and there were the usual commercials advertising the great sales that began at 6 a.m. today, or the wonderful year end auto sales events.
Anyway, not really paying attention, I was drifting in an out when I heard, “We are your Valentine Shopping Stop!” VALENTINE SHOPPING?? It was STILL Christmas and already the media and the corporate assholes are pushing us toward spending money on VALENTINE Day??? WTF??
I know more than a few people who have yet to recover from the insane amount of money they felt the need to spend this year. After all, Corporate America tells us what is the “acceptable” amount to spend, right? And this year, Corporate America seemed to think that we, the American People, had all hit the lottery and were drunk with spending power. Never mind that we are raising a generation of idiots that are incapable of simple things like playing outside or knowing that just because the Road Runner ties dynamite to his back in order to fly it’s okay for them to. (Seriously?? We watched those cartoons as children, and no one had to tell us that it was NOT something to do, or that is was NOT real. Now, our children can’t watch Looney Tunes because they are to violent for “young developing minds” and cause “irreparable damage to the psyche”. WTF??? Seriously? How many of the people coming up with that idea HAVE a damaged psyche?)
Today, the 26 day of December, the very day AFTER Christmas, I have seen not one but TWO commercials, both being shown during the airing of a Christmas Program, attempting to brain wash us into spending money we don’t have for more things we don’t know because, “She’ll you love her if……” Really? So now “love” is dependent on how deeply you go into debt for a piece of metal and a stone that is simply coal under immense pressure? If you don’t spend the absolute correct amount of cash the woman you have given your heart to will simply STOP loving you?? Who’s brilliant idea is this?
We, the consumers, are allowing the greed driven media to brainwash us into believing whatever the money hungry corporate machine tells us. Now, I know that some of you are thinking, okay, she’s one of those people. She is Anti-consumerism!!!!
Nope, I am NOT!! I am ANTI-DRONE, ANTI-BRAINWASHED, ANTI-IMMEDIATE GRADIFICATION!! That is what I am.
I don’t believe ANY of us have to be the little spending machines that the large corporations demand we be. We DO NOT have to go out and spend thousands upon thousands of dollars in order to be good parents!! Children do NOT need a new I-phone at the age of 4!! Hell, the only phone they need at the age of four is a PRETEND one that cost about $5 TOPS!! NOT a $700 phone capable of dialing Bumfuck Egypt!! I look at it this way, if you allow your toddler to play with your phone or worse BUY them one, and they call some stranger halfway around the world and run up a $10,000 phone bill…..you are simply REAPING WHAT YOU SOW!! Yup, I said it, you DESERVE to be deeper in debt for a phone than you will ever be for a house BECAUSE YOU ARE A IDIOT DRONE OF THE LARGE CORPORATIONS!! As a funny man says, “Here’s your sign!!”
Just because the idiots on television tell us that our children “deserve” the BEST electronics does NOT mean they deserve ANY electronics!! Toddlers with cell phones and computer games lead to FAT KIDS!!
Remember when we were children?? We did the most ludicrous things!! We actually OPENED THE DOOR AND WENT OUTSIDE!! OMG!! Can you imagine??? OUTSIDE??? Do kids today even KNOW what outside is??
We played with balls and sticks!! YUP, STICKS!! We made up games to play!! WE RAN!!! We played tag and Mother May I and Red light, Green light!! OMG, we actually EXCERISED!! And guess what, CHILDHOOD OBSEITY WAS NEVER HEARD OF!! Yeah, there was one or two “fat” kids, but not that was the exception NOT the rule!!
We didn’t have kids with high blood pressure or high blood sugar! None of our classmates died of a heart attack or stroke. We actually used our bodies AND our minds!! We played in the mud and caught bugs, we ran, we jumped, we imagined entire worlds and fought off bad guys with dirty, germ infested sticks!! And here is the KICKER, we SURVIVED!!
But then again, when we were kids Christmas didn’t begin the day after Halloween either!! And there was a break between Christmas and Valentine Day!!
No one felt obligated to BUY someone an expensive piece of whatever in order to feel loved. We KNEW we were loved!!
And the advertising that actually says “She’ll love you if….”?? Well, in my opinion the very fact that someone’s love is based on what you GET her, well, that bitch is what we used to call a gold digger and if you actually believe that she will love YOU and not your MONEY then you deserve to have your money disappear as quickly as rats abandoning a sinking ship!
I guarantee that long before Valentine day is here there will be commercials for Easter and all the candy that our kids “deserve”. Because, CANDY is what Easter is all about,right?? I mean, that rabbit shitting colored eggs was right there the day the stone was rolled away, right?? He sat right there, his little basket of chocolate goodies over his paw, popping out colored eggs for all the little kids to find!!
Yup, that’s how it happened!! We are ALL stupid enough to believe that one……or at least big business thinks we are!!
Before the dye has even dried on the hard boiled eggs we will be seeing ads for flowers saying things like “Your Mother will know you love her if…..” you could finish that statement with things like, you spend $200 on a bouquet of hothouse grown, genetically modified flowers!! This mother would know her kids loved her if she got a phone call and maybe a visit. Hell, a hand written letter would mean more to me than flowers that are simply going to wither away!!
Before the Mother’s Day flowers have begun to fade there will be commercials for hot dogs and soda, boat trips and vacations. Yup, Memorial Day is up next!! And you know we can’t have that particular holiday without there being picnics in strange places, places where you have to stay at least overnight at a high priced hotel far away from home!!
The Memorial Day hotdogs will still be steaming when we begin to see commercials for new trucks and watches, phones and razors for our Dads!! Because Dad can’t be sure of our feelings for him unless he has a high-priced watch/phone/truck/razor or whatever. And you know that wrapping paper won’t be in the trash before we see some celebrity on the television telling us we need to go to Washington D.C. or Gatlinburg or Chicago to celebrate the Independence of our Nation with fireworks, apple pie and vacations!! New trucks and cars, sales on all things electronic and most things made of cloth!! Because nothing says Freedom like owing thousands of dollars on a new vehicle or living room set!!!
The fireworks will be a distant echo when we begin to see advertisements for the dreaded Labor Day sales!! Yup, the White Sales will descend upon us!!! We will be poked and prodded into going into the stores to buy even MORE shit we don’t need!! They will tell us we absolutely HAVE to have these things or else we won’t have the conveniences that make us “cool”, “attractive”, or ”privileged” so that our neighbors will envy us!! We NEED to have these things, CORPORATE AMERICA says so!!!
As we leave the Labor Day Sales we will pass the Halloween displays, with their array of candies, monsters, makeup and decorations!! Yup, Halloween is THE coolest Autumn celebration!! Absolutely!! Just as any advertising agency!!!
Our Jack-O-Lanterns will still have candles glowing inside when they begin bombarding us with turkeys, dressings, cranberries, travel and “Thanksgiving gifts” (have NO idea what the hell those are, but I saw them advertised this year!!) Airlines will have special rates if you book by September! Hotels will give you a two for one room rates if you reserve for Thanksgiving by the last day in August!!! Yup, book early and you will save, save, save!!
The Turkey won’t be defrosted before they are advertising BLACK FRIDAY!! Yup, that horrible torment day where they try to force us into believing that the BEST deals are ONLY on that day!! We should all go and fight with one another in order to buy yet one more item we DO NOT NEED!! We should trample complete strangers in order to BUY a new television to play the new video games on!!!
As we recover from the bruises and contusions of Black Friday we will endure a deluge of Christmas movies, Christmas songs, Christmas advertising for Christmas gifts that we DO NOT NEED!! Hell, we usually don’t even want the junk that other people buy us, because there is NO THOUGHT, NO INSPIRATION, NO PERSONAL TOUCH in any of the trash we see advertised on television!! What happened to the afghans that Mom used to make? Or the quilts that Granny sewed for us? What about the bookcases Dad worked so hard on, or the beautifully made bedspreads of yesterday? What happened to the balls and bats, the jump ropes and Frisbees??
What happened to there being at least a few days between Christmas and Valentine day?? Or any of the holidays for that matter? WHY must we rush everything all year long?? Why must we have fat, spoiled, unimaginative children? Why is it so important that our phones do everything EXCEPT charge themselves?? When did we become a Nation of lazy, greedy, self-centered drones driven by the Corporate Machine??
And what the hell happened to New Year’s celebrations?? I haven’t seen ONE add for that, but there was just another one advertising jewelry for gold digging women who will only love you if you buy them the biggest, most expensive ring out there, regardless of how much you can afford!!!
Way to go Corporate America, you make us proud…….
Anyway, not really paying attention, I was drifting in an out when I heard, “We are your Valentine Shopping Stop!” VALENTINE SHOPPING?? It was STILL Christmas and already the media and the corporate assholes are pushing us toward spending money on VALENTINE Day??? WTF??
I know more than a few people who have yet to recover from the insane amount of money they felt the need to spend this year. After all, Corporate America tells us what is the “acceptable” amount to spend, right? And this year, Corporate America seemed to think that we, the American People, had all hit the lottery and were drunk with spending power. Never mind that we are raising a generation of idiots that are incapable of simple things like playing outside or knowing that just because the Road Runner ties dynamite to his back in order to fly it’s okay for them to. (Seriously?? We watched those cartoons as children, and no one had to tell us that it was NOT something to do, or that is was NOT real. Now, our children can’t watch Looney Tunes because they are to violent for “young developing minds” and cause “irreparable damage to the psyche”. WTF??? Seriously? How many of the people coming up with that idea HAVE a damaged psyche?)
Today, the 26 day of December, the very day AFTER Christmas, I have seen not one but TWO commercials, both being shown during the airing of a Christmas Program, attempting to brain wash us into spending money we don’t have for more things we don’t know because, “She’ll you love her if……” Really? So now “love” is dependent on how deeply you go into debt for a piece of metal and a stone that is simply coal under immense pressure? If you don’t spend the absolute correct amount of cash the woman you have given your heart to will simply STOP loving you?? Who’s brilliant idea is this?
We, the consumers, are allowing the greed driven media to brainwash us into believing whatever the money hungry corporate machine tells us. Now, I know that some of you are thinking, okay, she’s one of those people. She is Anti-consumerism!!!!
Nope, I am NOT!! I am ANTI-DRONE, ANTI-BRAINWASHED, ANTI-IMMEDIATE GRADIFICATION!! That is what I am.
I don’t believe ANY of us have to be the little spending machines that the large corporations demand we be. We DO NOT have to go out and spend thousands upon thousands of dollars in order to be good parents!! Children do NOT need a new I-phone at the age of 4!! Hell, the only phone they need at the age of four is a PRETEND one that cost about $5 TOPS!! NOT a $700 phone capable of dialing Bumfuck Egypt!! I look at it this way, if you allow your toddler to play with your phone or worse BUY them one, and they call some stranger halfway around the world and run up a $10,000 phone bill…..you are simply REAPING WHAT YOU SOW!! Yup, I said it, you DESERVE to be deeper in debt for a phone than you will ever be for a house BECAUSE YOU ARE A IDIOT DRONE OF THE LARGE CORPORATIONS!! As a funny man says, “Here’s your sign!!”
Just because the idiots on television tell us that our children “deserve” the BEST electronics does NOT mean they deserve ANY electronics!! Toddlers with cell phones and computer games lead to FAT KIDS!!
Remember when we were children?? We did the most ludicrous things!! We actually OPENED THE DOOR AND WENT OUTSIDE!! OMG!! Can you imagine??? OUTSIDE??? Do kids today even KNOW what outside is??
We played with balls and sticks!! YUP, STICKS!! We made up games to play!! WE RAN!!! We played tag and Mother May I and Red light, Green light!! OMG, we actually EXCERISED!! And guess what, CHILDHOOD OBSEITY WAS NEVER HEARD OF!! Yeah, there was one or two “fat” kids, but not that was the exception NOT the rule!!
We didn’t have kids with high blood pressure or high blood sugar! None of our classmates died of a heart attack or stroke. We actually used our bodies AND our minds!! We played in the mud and caught bugs, we ran, we jumped, we imagined entire worlds and fought off bad guys with dirty, germ infested sticks!! And here is the KICKER, we SURVIVED!!
But then again, when we were kids Christmas didn’t begin the day after Halloween either!! And there was a break between Christmas and Valentine Day!!
No one felt obligated to BUY someone an expensive piece of whatever in order to feel loved. We KNEW we were loved!!
And the advertising that actually says “She’ll love you if….”?? Well, in my opinion the very fact that someone’s love is based on what you GET her, well, that bitch is what we used to call a gold digger and if you actually believe that she will love YOU and not your MONEY then you deserve to have your money disappear as quickly as rats abandoning a sinking ship!
I guarantee that long before Valentine day is here there will be commercials for Easter and all the candy that our kids “deserve”. Because, CANDY is what Easter is all about,right?? I mean, that rabbit shitting colored eggs was right there the day the stone was rolled away, right?? He sat right there, his little basket of chocolate goodies over his paw, popping out colored eggs for all the little kids to find!!
Yup, that’s how it happened!! We are ALL stupid enough to believe that one……or at least big business thinks we are!!
Before the dye has even dried on the hard boiled eggs we will be seeing ads for flowers saying things like “Your Mother will know you love her if…..” you could finish that statement with things like, you spend $200 on a bouquet of hothouse grown, genetically modified flowers!! This mother would know her kids loved her if she got a phone call and maybe a visit. Hell, a hand written letter would mean more to me than flowers that are simply going to wither away!!
Before the Mother’s Day flowers have begun to fade there will be commercials for hot dogs and soda, boat trips and vacations. Yup, Memorial Day is up next!! And you know we can’t have that particular holiday without there being picnics in strange places, places where you have to stay at least overnight at a high priced hotel far away from home!!
The Memorial Day hotdogs will still be steaming when we begin to see commercials for new trucks and watches, phones and razors for our Dads!! Because Dad can’t be sure of our feelings for him unless he has a high-priced watch/phone/truck/razor or whatever. And you know that wrapping paper won’t be in the trash before we see some celebrity on the television telling us we need to go to Washington D.C. or Gatlinburg or Chicago to celebrate the Independence of our Nation with fireworks, apple pie and vacations!! New trucks and cars, sales on all things electronic and most things made of cloth!! Because nothing says Freedom like owing thousands of dollars on a new vehicle or living room set!!!
The fireworks will be a distant echo when we begin to see advertisements for the dreaded Labor Day sales!! Yup, the White Sales will descend upon us!!! We will be poked and prodded into going into the stores to buy even MORE shit we don’t need!! They will tell us we absolutely HAVE to have these things or else we won’t have the conveniences that make us “cool”, “attractive”, or ”privileged” so that our neighbors will envy us!! We NEED to have these things, CORPORATE AMERICA says so!!!
As we leave the Labor Day Sales we will pass the Halloween displays, with their array of candies, monsters, makeup and decorations!! Yup, Halloween is THE coolest Autumn celebration!! Absolutely!! Just as any advertising agency!!!
Our Jack-O-Lanterns will still have candles glowing inside when they begin bombarding us with turkeys, dressings, cranberries, travel and “Thanksgiving gifts” (have NO idea what the hell those are, but I saw them advertised this year!!) Airlines will have special rates if you book by September! Hotels will give you a two for one room rates if you reserve for Thanksgiving by the last day in August!!! Yup, book early and you will save, save, save!!
The Turkey won’t be defrosted before they are advertising BLACK FRIDAY!! Yup, that horrible torment day where they try to force us into believing that the BEST deals are ONLY on that day!! We should all go and fight with one another in order to buy yet one more item we DO NOT NEED!! We should trample complete strangers in order to BUY a new television to play the new video games on!!!
As we recover from the bruises and contusions of Black Friday we will endure a deluge of Christmas movies, Christmas songs, Christmas advertising for Christmas gifts that we DO NOT NEED!! Hell, we usually don’t even want the junk that other people buy us, because there is NO THOUGHT, NO INSPIRATION, NO PERSONAL TOUCH in any of the trash we see advertised on television!! What happened to the afghans that Mom used to make? Or the quilts that Granny sewed for us? What about the bookcases Dad worked so hard on, or the beautifully made bedspreads of yesterday? What happened to the balls and bats, the jump ropes and Frisbees??
What happened to there being at least a few days between Christmas and Valentine day?? Or any of the holidays for that matter? WHY must we rush everything all year long?? Why must we have fat, spoiled, unimaginative children? Why is it so important that our phones do everything EXCEPT charge themselves?? When did we become a Nation of lazy, greedy, self-centered drones driven by the Corporate Machine??
And what the hell happened to New Year’s celebrations?? I haven’t seen ONE add for that, but there was just another one advertising jewelry for gold digging women who will only love you if you buy them the biggest, most expensive ring out there, regardless of how much you can afford!!!
Way to go Corporate America, you make us proud…….
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Wishing you all a Happy/Merry whatever you celebrate.
Boy, what a day. The last 24 hours has seen me having intense discussions with Pagans, Jews, one Buddhist, several Muslims and more than one Atheist. Each one of them made valid points for why they didn't agree with my Merry Christmas and Santa’s sleigh thing from last night. I respect each of their opinions.
But, each of us have opinions, just like each of us have assholes, and to everyone else, they both stink. It doesn't matter how much you shine it up or what you decorate it with, it’s still nothing that other’s want to share with you!! (well, perhaps, but we’re not talking in a sexual manner about either one)
I am sitting here, trying to understand why people can’t just be happy! I mean, I know many people who are close in distance to their families, but, for whatever reason, they don’t want to spend time with them today or yesterday. Two days when, traditionally, families have desired to be together.
My family is spread out like a tablespoon of sauce on a pizza crust. We’re far in distance, and we can’t all get together for financial reasons as well as health ones. We don’t get to spend the Holidays together, we don’t get to enjoy each other’s company and fellowship. We are each in our own lives, with little overlap with one another.
I do my best to keep the Spirit of the Season. But sometimes it’s so hard that I just want to sleep through until Spring. It’s difficult to be joyous when you are surrounded by negativity. It’s hard to be happy when everyone around you is so hateful and full of themselves. Why should I even bother? What difference does it make?
This year many wonderful people helped me to make the Holidays a little better for some people who are having a hard time of it. We managed to get over 600 holiday cards sent out, many with small gifts, some with big gifts, for those people. THAT gives me joy!!!
This year I made sure that several others had what they needed to make a simple meal for today, nothing fancy, but good solid food. THAT gives me joy!!
This year we, some of those same wonderful people who helped with the cards, made sure that a young man who had began thinking no one gave a shit, KNEW that there are many, many people who do. We made sure an elderly woman who misses her family as badly as I miss mine KNEW that there are people out here to care if she has some joy in her life or not. We made sure that her animals were taken care of, we made sure she knew someone cared.
WHY can’t everyone do that? Why is it left up to the few to try and make a difference? What about when the few get tired of even trying and just stop? Will the world change for the worse? Can it?
I've lost my Spirit. I've allowed others to make me feel as though nothing is enough or that nothing is ever right. I've allowed myself to be infected with the apathy that seems to run rampant now. I am not enjoying the Season or the Spirit that goes with it. I have allowed the people who think THEY have the only correct belief, the only TRUTH, to infect me with their insanity.
It sucks!
I miss feeling the warmth of the Season. I miss the excitement and the joy that I once felt. That I had felt until the last several days. I miss the hope that I felt every single winter. That hope has left a gaping hole in my heart.
People can and do manage to infect each other with darkness. I have fallen victim to it myself. There is no spring in my step today. There is no fellowship that I am a part of today. There is no hope blooming in my heart.
There is only depression and sadness, despair and and hopelessness.
Should I say thank you to those who have killed my Spirit? Or should I just walk away from them, like they have walked away from the rest of us?
If you are with family, please, enjoy them. If you have the Spirit, please try to share it. Don’t allow others to dampen your happiness. It sucks when you do, believe me, I know. I am there right now.
But, each of us have opinions, just like each of us have assholes, and to everyone else, they both stink. It doesn't matter how much you shine it up or what you decorate it with, it’s still nothing that other’s want to share with you!! (well, perhaps, but we’re not talking in a sexual manner about either one)
I am sitting here, trying to understand why people can’t just be happy! I mean, I know many people who are close in distance to their families, but, for whatever reason, they don’t want to spend time with them today or yesterday. Two days when, traditionally, families have desired to be together.
My family is spread out like a tablespoon of sauce on a pizza crust. We’re far in distance, and we can’t all get together for financial reasons as well as health ones. We don’t get to spend the Holidays together, we don’t get to enjoy each other’s company and fellowship. We are each in our own lives, with little overlap with one another.
I do my best to keep the Spirit of the Season. But sometimes it’s so hard that I just want to sleep through until Spring. It’s difficult to be joyous when you are surrounded by negativity. It’s hard to be happy when everyone around you is so hateful and full of themselves. Why should I even bother? What difference does it make?
This year many wonderful people helped me to make the Holidays a little better for some people who are having a hard time of it. We managed to get over 600 holiday cards sent out, many with small gifts, some with big gifts, for those people. THAT gives me joy!!!
This year I made sure that several others had what they needed to make a simple meal for today, nothing fancy, but good solid food. THAT gives me joy!!
This year we, some of those same wonderful people who helped with the cards, made sure that a young man who had began thinking no one gave a shit, KNEW that there are many, many people who do. We made sure an elderly woman who misses her family as badly as I miss mine KNEW that there are people out here to care if she has some joy in her life or not. We made sure that her animals were taken care of, we made sure she knew someone cared.
WHY can’t everyone do that? Why is it left up to the few to try and make a difference? What about when the few get tired of even trying and just stop? Will the world change for the worse? Can it?
I've lost my Spirit. I've allowed others to make me feel as though nothing is enough or that nothing is ever right. I've allowed myself to be infected with the apathy that seems to run rampant now. I am not enjoying the Season or the Spirit that goes with it. I have allowed the people who think THEY have the only correct belief, the only TRUTH, to infect me with their insanity.
It sucks!
I miss feeling the warmth of the Season. I miss the excitement and the joy that I once felt. That I had felt until the last several days. I miss the hope that I felt every single winter. That hope has left a gaping hole in my heart.
People can and do manage to infect each other with darkness. I have fallen victim to it myself. There is no spring in my step today. There is no fellowship that I am a part of today. There is no hope blooming in my heart.
There is only depression and sadness, despair and and hopelessness.
Should I say thank you to those who have killed my Spirit? Or should I just walk away from them, like they have walked away from the rest of us?
If you are with family, please, enjoy them. If you have the Spirit, please try to share it. Don’t allow others to dampen your happiness. It sucks when you do, believe me, I know. I am there right now.
Human beings can ruin anything…..
You know, I’ve always enjoyed this particular time of year. I don’t care if you can it Christmas or Yule, The Day of Enlightenment or Saturnalia or Yule, Hanukkah or nothing at all. I will wish you a Merry Christmas or simply say Happy Holidays or Seasons Greetings. What I say has nothing to do you with and whether or not I know which particular path you have chosen to the Divine, it has to do with ME and how I feel at that moment.
I get sick to death of the entire Politically Correct bullshit!! When I say Merry Christmas I MEAN SOMETHING GOOD FOR YOU, I don’t mean to insult you or your belief system! And if you want the truth of the matter, I could NOT care less which particular religion you are, IT IS NOT MY BUSINESS, IT IS BETWEEN YOU AND THE DIVINE, NOT YOU AND ME. My approval of your beliefs shouldn't matter one whit, any more than your approval of mine.
I have people that I care about, some that I care about very deeply, that twist themselves in knots when I include them in any of my season’s enjoyment. They will usually start with, “You know that….” and end with something equally as condescending. They miss the entire point that I care enough to even include them in my hope for this season. They seem to take for granted that I intended on offending them in some manner.
Well, here’s the truth of it. I am physically and emotionally incapable of giving less of a shit about you being offended by my well wishes for you. If you can’t get past the “I’m Offended” and realize that I, usually a complete stranger to you, but sometimes a person you should know well, have a desire to see you be blessed with happiness, health, peace and enjoyment, then perhaps I should say “Shitty day to you” or “Screw you” when I see you or if I perhaps send you a card.
Perhaps I should be as offended by all of you. I should get on my soapbox and shout to the world, “The well wishes of these people offend me. I am not of their particular brand of religion so the fact that they use the name of their particular Deity to bless me offends me and sends me into spasms of indignation. I want to sue the entire world, because NONE of you believe exactly like I do and I am offended by that fact as well. I don’t want ANYONE to wish ANYONE else a happy, blessed, merry, or any other adjective day!!!”
Perhaps I should jump on the bandwagon of the offended. Because you can bet your ass that I get offended at the stupidity and self-importance that is running rampant at this time of year. I get offended that you DARE send me messages because I have posted to MY OWN DAMN FACEBOOK PAGE, about the route of Santa Claus. I am offended that you DARE take something I do for the kids and turn it into some politically/religiously offensive thing!! HOW DARE YOU!!
I don’t care if you associate this season with the Christian God or with a Pagan God, or if you associate it with a Popsicle stick!! When I wish you a Merry Christmas it is my way of saying, I wish you well, I hope you find peace and love. It is NOT I hope you are a Christian and if not I hope you become one!
I spend this season alone, not surrounded by friends and family. I will sit here, by myself, and do whatever I need to. I don’t have a tree, I don’t have presents, I don’t have people to enjoy the community with. These past few years have been tougher on me than any of you realize, but I AM STILL HERE!! I am still able to care about my fellow human being and wish them well.
So while you sit in your house, eating your dinner and opening your gifts, or while you tramp around outside hunting for that big buck or while you play your computer games or watch your television, REMEMBER, there are people out here that have NOTHING left to offer but GOOD WISHES to you and yours. There are those of us that can’t do the usual things that people do this time of year, but we CAN and we DO hope you are surrounded by love and peace.
So get offended when I say Merry Christmas. Jump on your soapbox when I say Happy Holidays. Jump up and down when I say Season Greetings You’re not hurting anyone except yourself.
Now that I've spouted off and gotten all of this off my chest, I am going to crawl back under the covers and go back to sleep, secure in the knowledge that I have no ill will toward any of you. I truly do wish nothing but good for all of you.
Be offended by that!
Merry Christmas!!
I get sick to death of the entire Politically Correct bullshit!! When I say Merry Christmas I MEAN SOMETHING GOOD FOR YOU, I don’t mean to insult you or your belief system! And if you want the truth of the matter, I could NOT care less which particular religion you are, IT IS NOT MY BUSINESS, IT IS BETWEEN YOU AND THE DIVINE, NOT YOU AND ME. My approval of your beliefs shouldn't matter one whit, any more than your approval of mine.
I have people that I care about, some that I care about very deeply, that twist themselves in knots when I include them in any of my season’s enjoyment. They will usually start with, “You know that….” and end with something equally as condescending. They miss the entire point that I care enough to even include them in my hope for this season. They seem to take for granted that I intended on offending them in some manner.
Well, here’s the truth of it. I am physically and emotionally incapable of giving less of a shit about you being offended by my well wishes for you. If you can’t get past the “I’m Offended” and realize that I, usually a complete stranger to you, but sometimes a person you should know well, have a desire to see you be blessed with happiness, health, peace and enjoyment, then perhaps I should say “Shitty day to you” or “Screw you” when I see you or if I perhaps send you a card.
Perhaps I should be as offended by all of you. I should get on my soapbox and shout to the world, “The well wishes of these people offend me. I am not of their particular brand of religion so the fact that they use the name of their particular Deity to bless me offends me and sends me into spasms of indignation. I want to sue the entire world, because NONE of you believe exactly like I do and I am offended by that fact as well. I don’t want ANYONE to wish ANYONE else a happy, blessed, merry, or any other adjective day!!!”
Perhaps I should jump on the bandwagon of the offended. Because you can bet your ass that I get offended at the stupidity and self-importance that is running rampant at this time of year. I get offended that you DARE send me messages because I have posted to MY OWN DAMN FACEBOOK PAGE, about the route of Santa Claus. I am offended that you DARE take something I do for the kids and turn it into some politically/religiously offensive thing!! HOW DARE YOU!!
I don’t care if you associate this season with the Christian God or with a Pagan God, or if you associate it with a Popsicle stick!! When I wish you a Merry Christmas it is my way of saying, I wish you well, I hope you find peace and love. It is NOT I hope you are a Christian and if not I hope you become one!
I spend this season alone, not surrounded by friends and family. I will sit here, by myself, and do whatever I need to. I don’t have a tree, I don’t have presents, I don’t have people to enjoy the community with. These past few years have been tougher on me than any of you realize, but I AM STILL HERE!! I am still able to care about my fellow human being and wish them well.
So while you sit in your house, eating your dinner and opening your gifts, or while you tramp around outside hunting for that big buck or while you play your computer games or watch your television, REMEMBER, there are people out here that have NOTHING left to offer but GOOD WISHES to you and yours. There are those of us that can’t do the usual things that people do this time of year, but we CAN and we DO hope you are surrounded by love and peace.
So get offended when I say Merry Christmas. Jump on your soapbox when I say Happy Holidays. Jump up and down when I say Season Greetings You’re not hurting anyone except yourself.
Now that I've spouted off and gotten all of this off my chest, I am going to crawl back under the covers and go back to sleep, secure in the knowledge that I have no ill will toward any of you. I truly do wish nothing but good for all of you.
Be offended by that!
Merry Christmas!!
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Christmas eve and all is well……
It’s still dark out and here I sit drinking coffee. I’m thinking about my kids and grandkids, hoping they are all safe and soundly sleeping in their beds. This Christmas, like quite a few in the past, we will not be together. But then again, they are all grown with families of their own. We’re spread out over the country, from Missouri to Georgia, Ohio to New Jersey, we are a scattered bunch.
It seems like just yesterday when they were all small, the oldest three in their teens and the youngest one a cute little blond toddler, all of them anticipating tonight when they would get to open at least one gift. Then tomorrow we would have a dinner and just enjoy each other, watch football if there was any, listen to my youngest son play the guitar and laugh at the youngest daughter talking so excitedly that her words all ran together! Now they are all grown and living far away, some with teenage children of their own.
We all think of days gone by. Sometimes they seem like the only good days there will ever be are the ones long past.
Oh well, I’ll move along, just melancholy today.
Later.
It seems like just yesterday when they were all small, the oldest three in their teens and the youngest one a cute little blond toddler, all of them anticipating tonight when they would get to open at least one gift. Then tomorrow we would have a dinner and just enjoy each other, watch football if there was any, listen to my youngest son play the guitar and laugh at the youngest daughter talking so excitedly that her words all ran together! Now they are all grown and living far away, some with teenage children of their own.
We all think of days gone by. Sometimes they seem like the only good days there will ever be are the ones long past.
Oh well, I’ll move along, just melancholy today.
Later.
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