Have yourself a merry LITTLE Christmas...
I blame Frank Sinatra for downplaying the most important holiday of the year. Is this a rant? I don't think so... but read on and see MY point of view.Here are some facts:
It's a one-day Christian holiday that Jews and other religious groups get to partake in. That includes the Santa Claus version for those who aren't religious.
Your holiday preparation starts a month sooner on the day after Thanksgiving where you shop for gifts that will take eight credit card payments to whittle-down the balance.
For this single day event, you will travel thousands of miles to see family on Christmas.
(think about that)
You spend $100 on a tree to hang decorations, put up lights and spray fake snow on your windows in parts of the country where it doesn't really snow.
Your office is decorated with cards mailed to you from your clients and suppliers.
Chestnuts are no longer roasted on an open fire... instead, you conveniently open a sealed pouch where someone at a factory cooked and peeled them for you.
Slaving 3 hours over an oven for the perfect turkey and fixings has been replaced by a phone app where the whole thing was catered from the local grocery store.
Chopping fire wood doesn't happen because the real fireplace was closed off and a faux glowing fireplace was installed years ago... it supports 4 different colors by remote and the real heat comes from your central HVAC system.
On that note... Have yourself a merry LITTLE Christmas!
Seriously Frank. What were you thinking?
Comments (4)
But when it's again on offer next time I will say yes.
I just saw an advert for the new Fisker Ocean.
Under the slogan "small footprint, large impact".
Not that it's much worse than any Tesla x or Mustang Mach-e
but these cars weigh at about 5000lbs.
0-60 in 4 sec.
Small footprint.
This was a Spanish concert, Spanish audience, Spanish performers, with a peppering of extranjeros who are in Spain to AVOID ice and snow. It wasn't all about jingle bells but it seemed so odd to have the snow ones included at all.
Decorations on sale include fake snow and snowmen figures and poor old Papa Noel can occasionally be spotted dressed in a winter suit trimmed with fur when all he probably wants is to join the hardier English tourists on the beach ... but then he's quite a recent addition, the main emphasis is still Day of the Kings and nobody, yet, is suggesting their camels were slogging through knee-deep white stuff.
That wasn't your point, but it was what I ran with from your blog because the rest, so far so good, Christmas in these parts is a quiet family day with a good home-cooked meal and one gift per person - until the bedlam of the Kings.
That's OK. It doesn't really snow in Bethlehem either.