This Christmas might be one of the rare occasions where I’m actually looking more forward to seeing others open the presents I gave them rather than the presents that were given me. I think the little boy inside me is finally growing up a little. One of the things I had planned to do for…
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The decorations are up, and the Chipmunks are back on my iPod playlist. It’s that time of year again, so you know what that means: time to plan another early Christmas getaway! :-D Last year I traveled to Stockbridge in Massachusetts in a quest to recapture the Christmas spirit, something I hadn’t felt in a…
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Well it’s Christmas Eve, and life still sucks big honking cheeseballs. Since I still haven’t met the one, I’m sticking to my time honored tradition of boycotting It’s A Wonderful Life until I do. I’ve been pretty scroogy this year compared to most for some reason. I had no desire to put up any decorations,…
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There used to be a time in my life when Christmas actually FELT like Christmas. I used to get into it so much that I would get out my Christmas tree and start decorating before even Halloween itself came around, much less the holiday season. The magic in the air was just intoxicating, and I…
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One of my Christmas traditions for the past few years has been to boycott the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life.” To this day I’ve never seen the film, and I have refused to do so until I meet “the one.” Every time I watch a movie by myself, I feel the dull ache of knowing…
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Jingle bells, Britney smells, Jamie laid an egg…. Yep, in what seems to be the beginnings of a Spears tradition, the 16 year old sister of Britney Spears now has one baking in the oven, the result of being the live-in girlfriend of some 19 year old dweeb she met… at church. What was that…
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I have a simple tradition that I follow every year at Christmas: I make a point of NOT watching the movie, It’s A Wonderful Life. To this day I have never seen the film. The reason for that is because somewhere along the line, I got it into my head that this was one movie…
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