The Christmas Creep

15:15 hrs.
04 Dec 14

     Did you ever have that feeling that you weren't prepared? You know its coming and you've said to yourself that this year will be different.

     "This year, I'll have my Christmas shopping finished by June!"

     And then by September you still haven't bought a damn thing.

     I usually start purchasing things in March and carefully squirrel them away until December. Gifts and trinkets. Items so carefully selected that when they are opened on Christmas Day the receiver is in total disbelief that someone had actually remembered that he had wanted that ten speed widget with the flexible head.

     Well, this year has been a total write off for buying things in advance. I remembered nothing and took note of even less. I have no idea what the Loin Fruits want and presents for my LOBSTER are starting to become old hat. Maybe that's what I should get her.  An old hat.

17:45 hrs.
05 Dec 14

     I would strongly advise anyone living in the VALLEY to get out and get your shopping done as soon as possible. I had to head to Crappy Tire to pick up a couple of things - epoxy to fix Loin Fruit #2's potato gun and other string of icicle lights- and the line ups were crazy. It was only 10:00 hrs. The parking lot was packed, the aisles were jammed and the tills were staffed by trainees. Just Great! A Triple Whammy! If this is indication I had better get my shopping done as soon as possible.

     There was low cloud and rain/mist all day long. When the clouds finally lift there will be plenty of snow on the Beauforts. It will be pretty as a picture.

     My friends from Over the Hump took a trip to the Fatherland do do some Christmas shopping. They had been stationed there back when The Wall was setill up and the country was still divided. Times sure have changed.

     We sat down to watch the holiday classic "A Charlie Brown Christmas". My BETTER HALF and I had set the dvr to record all the old classics. This one was on ABC. Its a thirty minute program with the animation taking up twenty-five minutes. Now according to Wikipedia,  ABC owns the rights to the show and broadcasts it twice in the season. My bitch is the fact that ABC has editted the cartoon to put in more advertising. Both myself and Loin Fruit #1 first noticed thte scene where Lucy handed out the scripts Sherman complained that he always had to play a shepherd. The next scene cut out to make room for an extra K-Mart commercial was where Linus and Charlie Brown go searching for a Christmas tree. Lucy wanted him to get a "big shiny aluminum tree". Of course, our hero brings back anything but. One other scene editted for commercial expansion was where Lucy asks Shroeder the virtuoso pianist to play Jingle Bells, which he proceeds to do in several different forms. The scenes should never have been removed from the show. 

     ABC ... you are a real Christmas Creep.