The pile in the hallway is still growing. My father and his wife popped in today, saw the pile, and suggested I push all the crap in front of the offending neighbor's door. I did exactly that tonight when I got home. I heard loud scuffles downstairs and some slamming, but no knocks on my door. She'll probably just set my unit on fire while I'm asleep. I hope I'm remembered well.
Christmas is fucking stupid. Why does this shopping hysteria have to start before I've even eaten my Halloween candy? Are advent calendars 2 months now? I'm a self-admitted grinch. The holiday season really annoys me. I hate the stupid music, the color combo, the scented candles and all of the pressure. I don't like holiday movies and have only seen a handful - like that one with the dentist elf and that one where Will Ferrell molests kids and eats cotton balls. Those were both good. I do not look forward to newscasters telling America that shopping in December was down. Do you know why it was down? Because you made people start holiday shopping in October.
Last year, I gave everyone in my family a Kiva gift card to make micro-loans in the developing world because most holiday gifts are pointless and by the time you're ready to buy again, everyone forgot what you got them last year. Well guess what? Kiva emailed me on Thursday to tell me that 7 of my family members never actually used the Kiva gift card and made a loan to a deserving entrepreneur in the third world. Well, I will let my family know that a 42 year-old smiling sweetheart in Rwanda can now buy potatoes to sell at the market thanks to me. They won't care, they would rather I give them a hand-towel with a picture of Santa on it or a scarf they will wear twice and then lose. My sister is great at holiday shopping - she buys stuff year round at dollar stores and flea markets and probably spends a total of $8 on each person. You'll get a sack of weird stuff, like a mini casserole dish and a bottle of blue hand-sanitizer, but both are fairly useful items (unless, like me, you have no oven or stove because the gas company won't turn your service on).
At the office, my boss tried to con me into planning the holiday party. Ohh hell naw. I suggested Japanese hibachi because it's lively and he said Asian sounded too "controversial" and shot me down.
Do you think there is a sort of food controversy continuum? For example, is Ethiopian more or less controversial than Asian? What about French? You should ask your boss to clarify...otherwise you are not really not being set up to succeed in this planning venture you could care less about.
ReplyDeleteGood point - the other restaurant on the list was much more expensive, but they have things like hamburgers on the menu. This is 'Merica! We only eat our own food! Now pass me a hotdog with peanut butter and fluff!
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