Heh..we ALL forgive you, Christy…

i always tought santa had those mood swings. could be off his meds.

Do put down all liquids before viewing. You have been warned. *g*

Making cranberry salad here this morning. Everyone doing well? I suspect a lot of folks are on the road — or headed in that direction, eh?

Shocked, I am. Shocked, I tell you.

stayin @ home as usual. helping the Alpha Project serve 26 turk and 15 hams on 25th. temp in 50s but rain in san diego. we got it rough here.

lol!

Morning Christy, what kind of Santa is Santa anyway!

Well I’ve always wondered about a man who keep “elves” working all year round while he ate cookies and drank milk.

I’m wrapped and ready to go for Christmas.

How are you keeping the wee one from popping open!?

We have reached the stage where I am asked every couple of hours if it is time to open the presents yet. *g*

morning, MM, sorry about the job notice.

Sounds like my boss. Except substitute donuts and gatorade.

Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.

Ho, Ho, Ho. Merry Christmas Eve to all. Wrapping gifts right now. Today’s the big day in my family. Christmas day is for R&R. Tonight we feast. Way back when (when my extended family was smaller) we would have a great dinner than schmooze and go to Midnight Mass. That ended when my generation started having children. But tonight’s still the biggie.

If you like Bluegrass WMNF Tampa has 2 shows, This is Bluegrass hosted by Tom Henderson on Monday evening 7-9pm ET, and Saturday Morning Bluegrass 6-9am ET. Each show is archived an hour after broadcast and kept for a week so you can listen anytime you like.

This is Bluegrass

Saturday Bluegrass – 1st Sat of the month is old time music, string bands and such, really cool.

DId I mention that we got her a Lego advent calendar? She’s gotten to open a door every day and construct a little lego doodad, figure or something else fun. It’s managed to keep her sane about the presents until today.

Today, she’s about ready to ’splode…

Oooooooh….nice!

Morning E, thanks ’tis is what it is.

Make Saturday 6-8am ET.

Hugs. I so wish you had gotten better news on that front…

Oh yuck, gatorade and donuts. That’s just wrong.

My taste buds are cringing at that one, too…

btw, if I don’t get to type at folks tomorrow because you are out of town or what have you — merriest of Christmases, happiest of holidays…just have a joyous day whatever it is that you may be celebrating.

Brings back fond memories.

Seasons greetings to all. Remember, we are not alone in this world. Open eyes and an open mind can make our world a wonderful place. Reach out to someone less fortunate than yourself.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

Should anyone wonder why he’s a diabetic?

Good morning Christy.

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Merry Christmas all you pups!

But make certain your young children are out of the room before watching this horrifying expose.

Just tragic.

not only is THAT tragic but we must ask just what kind of role model santa is at all

does santa smoke a pipe?

She’s so funny, because she’s smart enough to try and come up with an angle for negotiation. This morning, she woke up and said “Momma. It’s Christmas Eve. Could I please, please just open one present. It would keep me busy for a while.”

Sadly, I think we may be raising another lawyer. *g*

Hysterical!! I always thought that as a kid, but I wasn’t brave enough to say it at the risk of offending “Santa”!

Liberate the Misfit Toys and all other misfits!!

(So glad my kids are old enough to see this, even if I’m not going to let them use a certain word out loud about Santa’s, ahem, attitude…)

Thanks CHS, what can you do?

I have another lead so we’ll see what happens with that. It maybe a seemless transition. It’s the best case scenario to be honest. I have 6 more weeks of pay, and I’ll have my taxes filed electronically by the end of the period with a direct deposit, that’ll help.

And with that unemployment, and the money I have saved, it will be ok for a while. And there is the new adminstration. Also, the recruiters I have spoken to have expressed some optimism that the first quarter they expect some contracts to be written. We’ll see.

I’m not buying fear, I can’t afford it.

Good morning all !!
Christmas eve , time to start my Christmas shopping !

Good luck to you — I had to run up to the mall last week to get something, and nearly went insane. *g*

We have a nearly-3yr old in the family. She doesn’t get it yet. She knows Santa’s going to bring gifts but tomorrow will be a complete surprise to her. Can’t wait.

don’t wait till the last minute! *s*

Wally World for me,a couple of gift cards and out the door !!

I can’t help posting this one more time.

The Christmas Guest

Colour me gone. *g*

3 is such a fun age — it’s all just filled with “pretty” and wonder and not much on the expectation end so that any presents that show up and are fun are a sort of miracle. I have a feeling that 5 is our last year for that and as we turn the corner toward 6 it will start to be about the “what” of the getting and not just the wonder of getting anything. SIGH

The fight against rampant consumerism begins next year I suppose…

This makes it clear that the contemporary Christmas phenom is all about conditioning young children for rethug values. I mean seriously, rethug values are all there: intolerance, enforced conformity, labor abuse, workshop conditions typical of say Victorian England or a Chinese toy factory, social Darwinism, encouragement of bullying and gratuitous violence among children, etc, etc. ;-P

I liked the Robot Chicken take even better on “Who killed Santa Claus”.

http://www.metatube.com/play/1…..icken.html

“It was all about the coke man”

The elves DO need some practice…

Santa does seem to have his repug days…

Morning Christy, time to vacuum the house, as three or four inches of snow are falling at this moment.

OK..here’s MY Christmas story. Being Jews, my family did NOT have Christmas, which, when I was very little was a big trial for me. My father’s way of handling it was to tell us very early on (I think I was 3) that Santa did not exist – that he was an invention. This disappointed me tremendously, but it certainly gave me the feeling of being sorry for Christian kids who were being fooled. In any case, we lived next door to a family who took Christmas very seriously – and did no decorating until the kids were in bed on Christmas Eve so that when the kids would come downstairs…there would be the tree and everything — really magical. One year, when I was small, for some reason I woke up in the middle of the night and there, parked next to our neighbors house, was this old wagon that had had sled runners put on it(this was 1955 and we had a whole lot of snow in the winter, so farmers used to do this),drawn by a horse, with a big pine tree in it. I was convinced that I had just seen Santa for sure and told my father so the next day. I told my father that obviously he did not know about Christmas because I had actually seen Santa next door and he’d brought them a Christmas tree!!

Off to brunch, peace and good health to all.

OMG the 11 year old loved it! I am such a bad influence…but I know he hears far worse at school than “Santa’s a dick”, might as well enjoy the newness of sanctioned naughtiness and bursting of cultural bubbles as long as I can with this guy, before he gets too jaded.

Just hope he doesn’t slip and repeat it to his dad…dad is still naive about Santa’s dickishness.

Toby, that’s hilarious! I would have thought it was Santa, too, if I’d seen a sleigh parked next door. LOL

I laughed my ass off when I found this YouTube and HAD to share it with you guys. hehehehehehe

appreciate the links. since i moved away from WV i have had bg withdrawel.

Did you know WV public radio broadcasts Mountain Stage on the web now? You can get it on their website, am pretty sure…

Thanks for the laugh, been too stressed out and needed it.

jstrick — that one is about 2 years too early for this guy, the 14 year old will laugh readily, but I’m going to have to explain more stuff than I want to this morning. Yo quiero, indeed…

Ooops — meant to include the Mountain Stage link…sorry.

Christy, Christy, Christy

That was hilarious. ROFL Guess I’m naughty too.

didn’t know that. thanks for the linky.

LMFAO …….. liked the video !!!

Now.. Time to shop !!!

Merry Christmas !!

Merry Christmas all! We should have a contest to guess what time the peanut wakes up tomorrow morning. I’m thinking 5:30 am.

Loved it! The only thing he forgot was the Island of Misfit Toys. Who knew Santa was such a hater!

Thanks for the laughs, Christy. Much needed in preparation for the last minute rugby scrum of Christmas shopping that the DP and I need to do, today.

We have a little trick that Mr. ReddHedd’s parents used to use — put the filled stocking on the child’s bed so that she has a few toys to play with and perhaps lets her parents sleep until daylight cracks the horizon. Or not. Thus far, it’s only whetted her appetite, but I’m hopeful… *G*

Your mention of a three year old reminds me of one of our early family Chrismases. We have some old 8mm films of Christmas when my daughter was 3.

As you suggest, it was the first Christmas we had hoped to have fun with the Santa Claus concept. So we spent a couple of weeks excitedly building her expectations about Santa. We had hidden all of the presents in a hall closet before putting them under the tree after she was put to bed on Christmas Eve. The films show a beautiful angelic looking little girl ripping into one package after another. When she had opened all of them, she looked under the tree briefly, to make sure there were no more, and then went immediately and looked in the hall closet. I have no idea how she had known where they were.

I don’t know exactly when this was but it was when it became possible to shop on the net. I bought a lot of stuff that way but who knew about searching internet history etc.? My teens would check the computer everyday and knew nearly everything they were getting. Fresh kids taking advantage of a computer neophyte!

When I was a young boy, around 6 or 7, a week or so before Christmas a kid at recess, probably the same guy a few years later who gave me my first tips on sex, informed me that there was no Santa Claus. This news shook my world and left me pretty disheartened. My grandfather, who lived with us, picked up on my lack of excitement as Christmas approached. He asked me what was up and I told him. I will never forget his response. It was that there was a kind, loving and jolly Santa Claus and he was my mom and dad.
I had a merry Christmas.

Joe? Joe Lieberman? Is that you playing Santa?

You mean Joe Lieberman, the Jewish guy, could be Santa?!!

I mean he’s enough a grump to assume any negative role.

Great link, SD. From the guest, way led on to way down through that great music of the 70’s. Thanks for a wonderful evening!