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We have had a pretty darn good holiday. My folks came to the B's for dinner and my brother and sister in law came over for desert and coffee. Beans and I had a great time at both my folks and the B's on Christmas morning. We have established the tradition of spending the night at Beans's mom and dad's and having a good old fashioned morning and we even brought the dog.
We capped off the morning with a iChat with K & Sus (in England, awesome). Rachel was icky feeling so I went to my folks and later saw Mr. Mishka and the posse for some fireplace. All in all pretty dang fantastic.
I must say though that we as a country need to allot more days to family and the Holidays than the 1.5 that we do. We spend from Halloween to December 24th getting ready and we have the 24th and 25th allowed to us to enjoy our families our gifts and the spirit of the Holidays. That seems like a bit of a farce that we can fully enjoy ourselves and families in that 36 hour time. If you are unlucky enough to work retail then that feels like .0002 minutes before you have to go back to work and get yelled at because someones uncle who came from Florida lost the receipt for this gift that someone wants cash back to put towards their latest hot pink fashion statement not sold where you are and how dare you have a store policy that prevents returns without original packaging and a receipt. What sense does that make? So remember that it is everyones holiday even that disgruntled teen behind the counter. You are mad cause you cannot return that one thing and all he wants is to home and play the Gogillion dollars in videos games he got. So have some heart and just remember, in like a week we can start shopping for bathing suits, while we are at maximum holiday girth.
We have had a pretty darn good holiday. My folks came to the B's for dinner and my brother and sister in law came over for desert and coffee. Beans and I had a great time at both my folks and the B's on Christmas morning. We have established the tradition of spending the night at Beans's mom and dad's and having a good old fashioned morning and we even brought the dog.
We capped off the morning with a iChat with K & Sus (in England, awesome). Rachel was icky feeling so I went to my folks and later saw Mr. Mishka and the posse for some fireplace. All in all pretty dang fantastic.
I must say though that we as a country need to allot more days to family and the Holidays than the 1.5 that we do. We spend from Halloween to December 24th getting ready and we have the 24th and 25th allowed to us to enjoy our families our gifts and the spirit of the Holidays. That seems like a bit of a farce that we can fully enjoy ourselves and families in that 36 hour time. If you are unlucky enough to work retail then that feels like .0002 minutes before you have to go back to work and get yelled at because someones uncle who came from Florida lost the receipt for this gift that someone wants cash back to put towards their latest hot pink fashion statement not sold where you are and how dare you have a store policy that prevents returns without original packaging and a receipt. What sense does that make? So remember that it is everyones holiday even that disgruntled teen behind the counter. You are mad cause you cannot return that one thing and all he wants is to home and play the Gogillion dollars in videos games he got. So have some heart and just remember, in like a week we can start shopping for bathing suits, while we are at maximum holiday girth.
