Though it's kinda sad, in a way, that whichever you choose to do, no matter how good your intentions are, it seems like somebody will be bothered by your choice.
Yeah, I guess that's true, which is another reason why I am not bothered by people saying "Merry Christmas" to me. I figure most people are doing it with good intentions.
According to the weather channel, they did.
Ah, lovely, now I have to go fret over my friend who might still be in Tanzania. Off to seek out news reports, and possibly make some breakfast.
Hugs for Nilly and her most excellent card
I'm in overwhelmed mode here. Party for DH is tomorrow and I leave for NY on Wednesday. I have a list of 496 things that need to be done not counting the ones I will forget. Ack!
I feel odd saying Happy Holidays unless I am speaking to a group. Mostly I say Happy Hanukkah if the timing is right and Merry Christmas if that day is closer. I hope that I haven't offended anyone, but if someone is offended that I have wished them good cheer I am not too upset. Prepare to hear Happy St. Patty's Day and Valentines Day from me too. Good cheer all.
Am at work. Also sick. Need to be home in my jammies.
A Bronzer friend is flying in from Northern Ireland to Boston, today (it's Catriona, for the bi-boardal amongst us). She's going on a ski holiday in New Hampshire, and will be in Boston for a few hours next Sunday. I hope to meet up with her. She called me last night. As is typical, I was in tears, to have her be so real that I could finally hear her voice (and lovely accent, too).
Really? Tell Cat I said "Hi".
Ooh. How long will you be in NY, Laura?
It got confuseing at the library this year. there are a lot of regulars at the library that implied that they weren't doing anything over the weekend of christmas - so I was happy holidaying and happy weekending people. I sorta felt like I was over thinking the whole thing - because what ever the though expressed, the thought behind it was good and positive. If i know what someone celebrates that is different. Oddly, I know lots of people that I don't know well enough to know what the celebrate.
I rarely wish anyone "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Hollidays" or whatever. (Pretty much never, outside my family.) I guess that makes me weird.
Both my bosses are gone for the week and I have almost no work to do. I do, however, have a Firefly DVD with me....
I find this Christmas to be the one with most people
not
wishing Christmas automatically. Not sure why. Also the Christmas with the most people not feeling Christmassy. Not sure what's cause and what's effect.
Evidently it is hard for me to post and argue with my mother at the same time.
Who knew?
Will Target be insane today? I need Best Buy, and am a bit afeared.
Heartfelt condolences to Billytea.
In other words, though not a moderate on most issues, on this one I'm with Cindy. My feeling is that someone who is offended by being wished a Merry Christmas is looking too hard for something to be offended by. Someone who is offended by "Happy Holidays" is looking even harder.
I agree. And most Jews I know are not at all offended either. The holiday cards I send out to clients all say Happy Holidays or Season's Greetings.
Wolfram, the nicest, most well reasoned defenses of public celebrations of Christmas I've read this year, have been written by Jewish (and at least in one case, probably both, religiously observant) newspaper columnists.
The holiday cards I send out to clients all say Happy Holidays or Season's Greetings.
This is the only sensible way, unless you have certain knowledge of someone's religion. The cards I send to family and close friends who I know to be Christian (although I haven't sent them at all the last couple of years) are Christmas cards, and religious themes, at that. To my Jewish friends, I either send Happy Holiday cards, or buy special Hanukkah cards. My one Jewish friend who sends seasonal cards, makes them out of photos he has taken, but he puts "Merry Christmas" on ours. I don't think he's particularly observant, though.
