christmas eve and all is well

greetings and salutations. 

the day is upon us:  the house is decorated.  the gifts have arrived and been wrapped.  today we cook and cook and cook.  today should be fun... just looking for an adequate lull at work to say "ok, let's call it a day and spend time with our families."  work has been quiet, i work in a call center and short of a couple personal calls, our phones haven't rang.

there are some good conversations going on in our group... talking about bad times we've had, but truthfully, it seems that we're all using the bad to reflect on the good things we have.  i hope that everyone who reads this (if anyone at all... queue crickets) has a wonderful christmas and has a mature sense of cynicism and can appreciate life through the rough times.  i certainly hope if you read this, you'll jot a quick note acknowledging our existence.

take care... and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

dear santa

with the holiday quickly approaching we're running out of shopping days.  ...i think a more accurate statement from the economy (if the economy were to have a voice) is with shopping quickly approaching, we're running out of holidays.  "spend spend spend" would be the mantra.  i'm over it... i was over it before it started.  i barely have money to spend on bills let alone other people's wants (we're not even talking needs)!  i was talking the other day with someone who said simply "make something for someone... the holidays are about making someone know they matter to you" ...or something to that effect.  ...and you know... that is totally and completely true.  the spirit of christmas doesn't come with a price tag attached to it.  you don't need to take your fine china or gold to a pawn shop to afford something that we all have the ability to give freely:  love.
i started this entry with a cynical rant in mind regarding the politically "correct" commercial slaughter of chriskwanzikhah... and that derailed, and fortunately/unfortunately, i don't plan on redirecting it to that.  in my moment of letting the words flow and reflecting on them... reflecting on the point of what the holiday season should be... i've got to take this positive wave and ride it for what it is worth.  my cynical roots don't always have to win out and steer my life into total bitterness.  i'm allowed to be happy and positive once in a while... it is permitted.  the same goes for you... we don't have to be miserable all the time.  life isn't ALL bad... which is all the more reason to rejoice in the moments where you feel okay about yourself... because life can be very quick to spin around and bite you in the ass.

ps - santa if you stumble across my blog, could you bring me some self gratifying adult "toys" this year... i've actually been pretty good and this is the closest i'll come to an actual list.
thanks, and merry christmas!