Long time, no bloggy bloggy
Man, we enjoyed the holiday yesterday. And - since I've got no family in town - we truly had a 'holiday.' Got up, let Kailyn watch the Thanksgiving parade, then lounged around the house until about 3:00.
We decided to jettison the turkey tradition this year, and instead cooked tequila-lime chicken outside on the grill. Good stuff. Then we wrapped up the day watching "The Polar Express." Not a bad flick...surprisingly good, actually. J-mo joined us for the festivities.
Anyway, now the silly season is getting started in full swing. Time to put up the lights, the Christmas trees, all that stuff... Really, I don't mind it. True, all the holiday bling-bling can get annoying - especially when the true meaning of the season is lost in the commercialization of the holiday that drowns you this time of year. But - for me - it's all about attitude. My attitude, that is.
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I don't know when my XBOX 360 will arrive. For $50 extra bucks, I could've gotten one at Wal-mart last week. Then I would've had to go, wait in line...nah... I can be patient. Besides, I've had little time for video games this week, anyway.
On a video-game related note, I've actually gotten Stacey (the anti-gamer) to get hooked on Burnout on the XBOX and the PSP. As I sat there watching her play round after round in 'crash' mode the other night, all I could think of was the "You...like your father...are now mine" line that was uttered by Emperor Palpatine in "Return of the Jedi." Heh. Now if I can only hook her on Call of Duty 2...
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Anyway, I'm thinking about taking up writing. I've been reading this incredible book called Blue Like Jazz lately, and it's inspired me to write. So, I warn all you pour souls that read my blog, I may start doing that here... well...more of it than I have so far...
We'll see...
We decided to jettison the turkey tradition this year, and instead cooked tequila-lime chicken outside on the grill. Good stuff. Then we wrapped up the day watching "The Polar Express." Not a bad flick...surprisingly good, actually. J-mo joined us for the festivities.
Anyway, now the silly season is getting started in full swing. Time to put up the lights, the Christmas trees, all that stuff... Really, I don't mind it. True, all the holiday bling-bling can get annoying - especially when the true meaning of the season is lost in the commercialization of the holiday that drowns you this time of year. But - for me - it's all about attitude. My attitude, that is.
...
I don't know when my XBOX 360 will arrive. For $50 extra bucks, I could've gotten one at Wal-mart last week. Then I would've had to go, wait in line...nah... I can be patient. Besides, I've had little time for video games this week, anyway.
On a video-game related note, I've actually gotten Stacey (the anti-gamer) to get hooked on Burnout on the XBOX and the PSP. As I sat there watching her play round after round in 'crash' mode the other night, all I could think of was the "You...like your father...are now mine" line that was uttered by Emperor Palpatine in "Return of the Jedi." Heh. Now if I can only hook her on Call of Duty 2...
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Anyway, I'm thinking about taking up writing. I've been reading this incredible book called Blue Like Jazz lately, and it's inspired me to write. So, I warn all you pour souls that read my blog, I may start doing that here... well...more of it than I have so far...
We'll see...
2 Comments:
Yeah, Christmas is definitely ultra-commercialized. But it's no suprise though is it? We've all contributed in some way to make it so. Besides providing fodder for countless "The reason for the season" sermons (which have been beaten to death btw), greeting cards and what not, I doubt the commercial treatment it's given will ever change.
I don't mind people jumping in with the 'spirit' or the season...decorating, christmas music, even special events...
I don't know at what point, though, it becomes a gimmick...or too much...or over-commercialized.
Things I could do without this time of year:
1. Black Friday. Perhaps the pinnacle of the commercialization of the holiday. Why is it up to the stores to kick off the season?
2. Stores decorating in October. We have 2 freakin' holidays BEFORE Christmas, so why skip 'em?
3. The fact that every retailer has taken it upon themselves to mark the end of the season like 4:00 on Christmas Day. They hype it up, but when the buying's done, you move on. Never mind that most people are still enjoying their holiday/vacation.
4. Excess spending (again, a retail/greed-related thing).
5. Reason for the Season motifs. Okay, sounds a bit hypocritical, since Crosspoint is doing a Christmas series. But at least we're acknowledging the frenzy, the chaos, the excess, and even the depression that can come this time of year, rather than just guilt-tripping people for getting caught up in the holiday itelf. People are scrooges this time of year for good reason, and guilt-tripping them about it does NO good. Furthermore, the 'reason for the season' motif...if you have to remind people that Jesus is the reason for the season, you're probably not focusing enough on him year-round in the first place... Blah. Blah.
4. Excessive yard-bling. Okay, I guess that's personal preference. It's not necessarily a LOT of lights and decorations that bother me...but when it looks like a yard sale with lights...that's bad. There was this house we used to pass going to my grandmother's that had a half-acre lot filled with literally hundreds of those cheap, plasticky light up Rudolphs and snowmen and Santa Clauses. There were only 8 reindeer...not fifteen. Like I said...a yard sale that glows in the dark.
Again, that's personal preference I guess. I put up a lot of lights, but I don't throw every light/ornament I can find out on the front lawn.
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