It is that magical time of year again! Fall is in the air and retailers are knee deep in their pumpkin spice peppermint money grab. Holiday music before Halloween makes me want to stick a broomstick in my eye. I understand why rich people disappear to a tropical island for the winter. What's a nonlottery winner to do? (Personally, I think if I could market some Merry Hallothankmas cards I'd fix that money issue, but I digress.) I could pretend I'm in the tropics but I don't think the dirt on my kitchen floor would pass for sand and it's too cold for flip flops.
One disaster at a time is the mantra at my house, despite the fact that it feels like I'm pushing back a wall of pudding. Tempus, the bastard, keeps "fugiting" and faster than I can sneeze, Halloween is in my rearview. Should I have started trying to enjoy fall in September? It's hard to think of falling leaves when you're still wearing shorts. By the time the weather started to feel like I should consider some apple cider, egg nog hit the store shelves! How did I manage to miss the fall? Since there's no use crying over spilled cider (certainly cider without a shot of Apple whiskey, but there I go again) my best bet is to focus on what's in front of me before I miss that, too.
The bonus advantage to trying to stay in the present not thinking about the dreaded Holiday aftermath that tends to hit me like a freight train in January. My solution to this is to create cheap excuses to get people together without the decorations or cards. I admit this is still a struggle for me. Things go easier when you plan ahead, don't they? Maybe I could find a pilgrim hat that would fit my Easter Bunny statue, but I think I'd be better off eating my pumpkin pie slowly. Duck! Here comes another one!
Happy Holidays to all, every friggin' one (holiday, that is)!
Monday, November 26, 2018
Friday, November 9, 2018
Are we done yet?
Welcome to early November. It's Halloween again! We have made the mistake of having our television on. Every four seconds, it seems, there's another commercial on for some candidate we're sick of hearing about. Even my oblivious ten year old daughter has noticed that all these commercials ever seem say is, "The other guy's a fart face, vote for me." I'm also beginning to think the networks must think we're senile or two and a half, because of the endless repetition. If there was a network out there that would boycott political ads from mid October until after the election, I think they'd make a mint.
I am once again, like everyone else, forced to hold my nose and select the least amount of evil I can find. This was the first midterm election I voted on in years. I normally did not care but it seems the insanity in Washington was too much for even me to handle. I prefer my craziness to skew more toward the middle if possible. Fortunately, it turns out that the rest of the country felt the same way and people were voting in droves. I guess this was a somewhat hopeful sign that my fellow citizens still give a rat's ass. It also must be pretty bad for people to put their remotes down long enough to vote, too.
Where would we get information about candidates if we don't have commercials? If I could indulge in a fantasy here, I would schedule debates. Since we live in a short attention span world, I'd also keep them short, like 15 minutes in a series of three. I'd like to see if these clowns could string an intelligent sentence together. It would also help to see if they were smart enough to understand how to best make use of your time to make a point. Regrettably, that still doesn't seem to stop some scary creatures from getting elected but I figure hope springs eternal.
Once the election is over, of course, you have the ad nauseam analysis by various pundits. This year is even worse, in my humble opinion, due to the incessant delusional crowing by the commander in chief. I have done my best to avoid the major networks once I've heard the weather. We get our televisions back by mid November but it leaves me wondering about the rest of the year. Why does it seem that elected officials disappear once elected? Don't all employees get performance reviews during the year? Why not these guys?
I am once again, like everyone else, forced to hold my nose and select the least amount of evil I can find. This was the first midterm election I voted on in years. I normally did not care but it seems the insanity in Washington was too much for even me to handle. I prefer my craziness to skew more toward the middle if possible. Fortunately, it turns out that the rest of the country felt the same way and people were voting in droves. I guess this was a somewhat hopeful sign that my fellow citizens still give a rat's ass. It also must be pretty bad for people to put their remotes down long enough to vote, too.
Where would we get information about candidates if we don't have commercials? If I could indulge in a fantasy here, I would schedule debates. Since we live in a short attention span world, I'd also keep them short, like 15 minutes in a series of three. I'd like to see if these clowns could string an intelligent sentence together. It would also help to see if they were smart enough to understand how to best make use of your time to make a point. Regrettably, that still doesn't seem to stop some scary creatures from getting elected but I figure hope springs eternal.
Once the election is over, of course, you have the ad nauseam analysis by various pundits. This year is even worse, in my humble opinion, due to the incessant delusional crowing by the commander in chief. I have done my best to avoid the major networks once I've heard the weather. We get our televisions back by mid November but it leaves me wondering about the rest of the year. Why does it seem that elected officials disappear once elected? Don't all employees get performance reviews during the year? Why not these guys?
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