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Lowball Bid or BUY IT NOW???

Lowe’s Home Improvement stores recently felt obligated to issue an apology. They called the artificial Christmas trees in their catalogues “Family Trees.” This caused outrage by folks who argue to Keep Christ in Christmas. I remember the refrain Keep Christ in Christmas from my childhood. Then, it was based in using the term “Xmas.” I […]

Entering the First Fold of the Threefold Disease

An AA joke: “Alcoholism is a threefold disease: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s.”
I never really thought this joke was all that funny, or applicable to me. I never really “whooped it up” on the holidays much, except a couple of times. There was the time I met my first husband in a blackout on New […]

Bonsai

I hate to indulge myself in feeling old pain. I’ve been pushing things down for a while, and some of it is coming out sideways. I hauled off on my husband a couple of nights ago. I’m angry a lot, and it’s leaking out of me at the most unexpected times.
There are so many schools […]

Christmas: Santa, Kubota, and The Inflatable God

This weekend has had me visiting the local shopping mall (the Fashion Square Mall) twice. Once was for Santa’s first night. The other was this evening’s drive-in movie in the parking lot, featuring “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “Polar Express.”
Last night, the Santa’s workshop setup in the mall was flanked by two Kubota tractors, […]

Christmas Looms as Blake Becomes Brand-Aware

There is a very big reason why I don’t like Blake watching Nickelodeon. He has zero sales resistance. He has watched only DVDs, Disney Channel and PBS Kids for most of his life. But, he’s starting to outgrow the Disney Channel morning shows. Yesterday, he asked to watch Sponge Bob.
I got no problem with Sponge […]