Nice bracelet Nora - wish I could be of help, but I have no idea.

Blissfully ignoring the "what are we celebrating" discussion...and I don't send out cards. I used to make my own and send, but have not had the time or motivation the last couple of years.

DH was able to find my gyno's phone # by asking the pharmacist when he was there to pick up something else (of his).

On the one hand, I can now call and yell at them for not calling back the pharmacy. On the other hand, creepy much? That someone not me can get my doctor's phone # that easily?

I can't speak for Kwanzaa, but Hannukah is a minor Jewish holiday whose importance has been inflated in America because its enough like Christmas (happens in winter + gifts) to be conflated into the same shopping frenzy. So for me, that was actually the only *non*-insulting thing in there.

If I thought Wildmon was coming at it from that perspective, sure. But I don't really think that's the case.

That Jewsmas thing was hysterical, and I've passed it on to any number of (Jewish and non) friends already. Also, those look like some good recipes.

I would say that retailers - specifically big chain ones - are really really good at tairloring their sales messages to their markets. If they say "Holiday" and not "Christmas" it might just be because "Holiday" sells better.

And so...don't you think that sort of proves the point of the group that started this protest against Target? Their point is (or at least reads to me as if it is): if you're not going to acknowledge our holiday, you must not want us as customers, so we're not going to patronize your business.

Their point is (or at least reads to me as if it is): if you're not going to acknowledge our holiday, you must not want us as customers

Except that it's obviously untrue. The idea that "Happy Holidays" is an anti-Christian statement is absurd.

And retailers don't "acknowledge" ANY holidays. They have sales and market said sales. It's not "in honor" or ANYTHING but their margins.

The idea that "Happy Holidays" is an anti-Christian statement is absurd.

How many holidays are there between Thanksgiving and New Year's? Christmas, Channukah, Ramadan, Winter Solstice/Yule, Kwaanza, Festivus, Christmakkuh.

Also, you can just as easily claim that holidays like Yule and Saturnalia were corrupted by Christians who stole all their symbols.

"Stole" is such a loaded word.

Once we'd slaughtered them en masse all those nice symbols were just lying around...

I suck.

My boss brought her cute and smart almost 5-yo in to work today (the pre school had no heat) and she keeps popping in and sort of expecting me to entertain her. Which, um, I don't and keep trying to work.

She's nice and cute and sweet and I feel like an ogre, but really, I do not have it in me to babysit today.

Well, with Saturnalia the slaughter wasn't all on one side.

Still, I do like responding to "Merry Christmas" with "Happy Saturnalia".

ETA:

I do not have it in me to babysit today.

And you should be expected to because why? Unless babysitting is part of your job description, in which case I'll just say I'm sorry you're feeling at a low ebb. Actually, I'm sorry you're feeling at a low ebb either way.