F Is For Friday

Did you survive Thanksgiving? Are you ready for the full onslaught of Christmas carols, angry shoppers and commercials that make you cry like you have a raging case of PMS and Menopause all at the same time?

Or maybe that’s just me.

I personally am looking forward to putting away my pumpkin spice coffee creamer and breaking out the peppermint. Yes, I’m one of those “basic bitches” you hear about on the internet, who likes her pumpkin spice. I own it. Not ashamed. But the peppermint mocha is my favorite! Woo hoo!

I actually got sick two days before Thanksgiving and am still not feeling great, so I haven’t been writing much. While I rest up and try to get ready for the busy holidays ahead I thought I’d share a few random things.

Charlie Brown Christmas

I don’t know about y’all, but my holidays aren’t the same unless I get to see Linus waiting for The Great Pumpkin, Snoopy fighting the lawn chair at Thanksgiving, and Charlie Brown trying to find the perfect Christmas tree.

My grandmother, Cokie, used to always call us the day of the special to make sure we knew it was going to be on so we didn’t miss it. Occasionally, we got to watch it at her house, which was a treat, because she had a color T.V. and we didn’t (you can read why here).

This year, you can watch the Christmas special on ABC on November 30 at 8:00 p.m. E.T. I enjoy the nostalgia of watching it on Broadcast TV but I’m also so busy during the holidays that I went ahead and bought a digital copy from  Amazon (they also have DVD or Blu Ray, if you prefer). Now I can watch it any time, and more than once during the season! Yay!

2017 is Almost Over

Let’s face it. 2017 was just a massive dumpster fire. From mass shootings to sexual predators in Hollywood and Washington, to David Cassidy and Malcom Young of AC/DC dying.

I’m just so damned glad the year is almost over. Of course, I said that last year, when 2016 seemed to take all my favorite celebrities. Well, between last year’s deaths and this year’s careers that are now over due to skeletons being freed from their closets to jangle around in our headlines, I found this very accurate depiction of what the 2018 Academy Awards ceremony is going to look like:

Ironically, though, I would probably still tune in to watch because I heart Meryl Streep. I would watch her eat toast and read the financial pages out loud.

Cell Phone in Church

I attended a funeral this past week and the church DID NOT blow up when I entered, so I’m pretty proud of that. There may be hope yet.

Anyway, we were listening to the minister speak when somebody’s cell phone went off. When this happens, people will always look around and your eyes go to the usual suspects: kids, business looking guys who probably spend ninety percent of their time connected to work through their electronics, etc.

But the winner this time was a shaky little white-haired lady in a fur-trimmed coat.

And it was a flip phone.

And she couldn’t get it shut off.

I don’t know why it made me chuckle, but it did.

Just Take it Easy

We are going into the craziest time of the year. We can survive this, but we all have to do our part.

A week before Thanksgiving, I had to make a run into Big Box Store to pick up some coffee and it seemed like the holiday craziness had already started at full steam. I walked out of the store and was nearly hit by an old lady who was looking in the other direction as she drove toward me. Fortunately, I stopped where I was and watched her. If I had walked forward another couple of feet, her car would’ve hit me.

About thirty seconds later, as I got into my own car, I heard a horn honk, and then another one in response, and then it was like dueling banjos only with car horns.

This? This is why I do the majority of my shopping online or at smaller local retailers.

So if you’re out there in the holiday craziness, just stop and take a deep breath. We all have to inhabit the same space. Can we all just be a little bit nicer to each other? It really doesn’t take much effort. And for crap’s sake, watch where you’re driving!

And while you’re at it, be kind to the people working. Trust me on this. The LAST thing the people working at the retailers of the world want to do is spend their holiday dealing with fist fights over some toy your kid will break within a couple of weeks.

My friend, Lori, who writes Come Hell or High Water Blog, has personal experience with this and I highly encourage you to read this post she wrote and see things from a different point of view.

Okay…enough of my soapbox. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you right here next week!

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