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Continuing a Christmas Tradition

Clark Griswold - Christmas

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…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

Mini Christmas Tree with Soldier and Train

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…

Tis the season to be as sick as a dog!

Christmas Lighthouse

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,…

Why The Christmas Spirit Left Me Like a Cheap Ho

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…

It’s A Wonderful Wait

Lighthouse

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…

Tis The Season To Get Knocked Up

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…

A Christmas Tradition

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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