I still have to mail Xmas presents. Mom said if I wrapped hers she'd wrap the others, but there's not much but hers to send. I want to get my dad and brother something else but I'm out of ideas. My brothers' gf just wants gift cards. I'd like to get Mom something else but I'm dealing with - I didn't get everyone a fair number/dollar amount of presents. This year kind of sucks.
I got socks for Mom and Brother's GF. And I was at the store trying to make a left turn and then realized it wasn't going to happen so I made a right and went to the Habitat for Humanity ReSTore and looked at some cool furniture I have no place for and got some shelf bracekts I've needed for nearly 1 1/2.
And I found this - [link] and brought it home for a buck.
It reminds me of somehting and looks like it was homemade and - only a dollar!
Originally I was going to buy some little ceramic houses for part of the Christmas village thing I have going (I have a TARDIS keychain and I'm building a very not to scale Christmas village around that) but they wanted $5/per house.
For those who might be interested (looking Michigan-ward), here's Aladdin, the Mount Vernon Christmas Camel.
Jesse, is this on "Good Stuff"? Ferguson protestors get engaged. [link]
Looks like I'm continuing my tradition of somebody telling me I'm doing Christmas wrong every December. It would be nice to be able to get through this month without it, but I guess it's not to be.
You're doing Christmas wrong?! Merciful heavens, save us all from stupid pseudoChristians who don't want to admit that Christmas isn't all that important to everyone on the planet.
That is such bullshit, Hil.
Well I would kind of HOPE you were doing Christmas wrong since...I wouldn't think you were doing Christmas at all, so...yeah.
Well, the person who told me I was doing Christmas wrong sort of apologized to me. Basically "I didn't mean to offend you," and then repeating most of the same stuff she'd said already. I just said "Thanks" and nothing more.
So, "I didn't mean to offend you...but you're doing Christmas wrong"? As in, the holiday you don't celebrate?
Some people. Sheesh.
My nephew is having a holiday thing at his school and he learned a Hanukkah song and Mom went into her "I don't understand why they can teach those songs but they can't teach about Christmas."
I kind of lost it with her. I told her that Evander doesn't need to learn about Christmas because it's EVERYWHERE. Seriously. My brother's an atheist (I think) his girlfriend is, so Evander is getting the religious part of it (I don't think) from home but it's everywhere. You know what day I'm garunteed to have off? Christmas.
Hil, I used your situation with exam scheduling and the diversity meeting on Rosh Hashanah as an example of why other religions aren't dominate and people end up having to jump through hoops in order to observe holy days because everyone gets Christmas off and no one can seem to remember there are othe religions.
I'm PMSing and I'm that RAGEY Stabby mood so I kind of came down hard on her.
Today at work I was alternating between RAGEY stabby and weepy. I over slept and was late, someone else was late. There were too many people, we have too many new people. No one wanted to wait their turn.
and if my HANDS ARE FULL or I'm moving a LADDER!! then the answer to "Are you free/busy?" is "FUCK NO! Wait your fucking turn."
Sorry, there is no holiday joy in me tonight.
Plus I took my computer back because it's being slow. I have freaking Comcast Blast Plus. I run speedtest.net on my Chromebook (so it's wireless) and get like 78 mbps. And I took my computer back, there's nothing wrong iwth it, they say, it's fine they say. They ran a speed test and was like - that's good. 10 mbps download speed is good at work. Okay whatver.
I get it home. I try something that was suggested and then I just unplug everything, power cycle everything and plug directly into the modem and the speeds are freaking slower. So it's the modem or router, but that doesn't make sense becuase everything but my computer gets really fast speeds.
If I have to look at one more "The reason for the season" thing on an extended family's FB page I may just go off and rant that they should STOP putting up trees and giving gifts (well maybe you could justify the gifts from the wise men) but NO TREE. NO Santa. No Freaking Elf on the Fucking Shelf. NONE OF IT. Just be humble and generous to people in need and who are sick (and possibly someone you don't think is worthy).
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Sorry, I'm just very stressed and overwhelmed today and working in retail makes me wish that Christmas would go away. Don't come to my store 5 days before Xmas and then get upset because the thing you wanted that "I knew I should have come in sooner for" isn't here and we can't promise it by Christmas.
BAD PLANNING. Give them a picture and an IOU. Your teenager can fucking deal.
