Christmas Thoughts

I have so far filled this site with mostly gripes and bitches about things that annoy me. I think I need to remedy that.

Today is thoughts and whimsy... better hold onto your bootstraps kiddies.

The things that come from a childs mouth are wonderous. The other day, my 5 year daughter old looked at her grandmother and asked for a bananna split. When she was told there were no banannas, she proceeded to ask "Can't you just improvise?" Yes, a 5 year old used the word improvise correctly in a sentence.

Now for the Christmas thoughts... and for those of you that do not celebrate Christmas, I do not intend to offend anyone.

I get giddy when putting up Christmas decorations, I'm just a big kid at heart I guess.

Liquid Potpouri makes great wood cleaner..... I found out the hard way.

Christmas trees can be too big.

You can never have too many Christmas lights, but you can have a bad display of them.

I am tired of getting hit up at every store by the Salvation Army dudes ringing bells.

Christmas should be white...... EVERYWHERE. No exceptions. I don't care if you live on the Equator, there should be snow for Christmas. It can melt away the next day.

Christmas is too commercial. We often forget the reason for the holiday, but I can't help getting caught up in the commercial part of it.

I love hosting Christmas get-togethers.

I have to work Christmas Day this year............. again.

I spend more than I have on Christmas.

I have learned that there is nothing like looking at Christmas through the eyes of a child.

New Year's Eve sucks. It's amature night. The one night a year when those idiots who never go out and party, go out and party.

We are always busy during the holidays with bad emergency calls.

I can never remember to write the new year on my checks for the first month.

I enjoy Christmas comedy, as well.

My vehicle payment is due on Christmas Day.... think anyone will be there to accept it?

I put up alot of Christmas lights.... this in turn raises my electric bill.

Christmas lights look cool on fire trucks.

Santa was a fireman.

I love Christmas songs..... and really like singing along with them. I have some favorites, the top 5 in order are;

1) Carol of the Bells
2) Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
3) Anything by Mannheim Steamroller
3) We Wish You a Merry Christmas (As done by John Denver and the Muppets)
4) Silent Night
5) Merry Christmas from the Family

I went light-hunting as a kid with my parents. I loved it.

I take my daughter light-hunting. She loves it.

I still love it.

I want to have one of those houses one year that people flock to for the lights.

I still get misty eyed when I watch Charlie Brown's Christmas.

I have played the drinking game that goes with How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

There is something magical about midnight mass on Christmas Eve, regardless of your religion.

I have been drunk on Christmas.

I have fought many house fires on Christmas.

Scrooged with Bill Murray is one of the best and funniest adaptations of Charles Dickens A Chrismas Carol.

I didn't like the remake of How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Jim Carrey.

I love the old classic Christmas cartoons: Rudolph, Frosty and Santa Clause is Coming to Town.

I have them all on tape.... bought them for my daughter to share my childhood memories and loves with her.

I think I enjoy them more than she does sometimes.

I never get my Christmas Cards done in time.

I miss my grandmother around the holidays, she always had a way of making them magical for me - even as an adult.

I have been to Rockefeller Center, seen the enormous tree and been ice skating.

My parents used to take us to New York City each year around Christmas to go to FAO Shwartz, Radio City Music Hall to see the Rockettes, the aforementioned Rockefeller Center, the window displays along 34th Street, and of course, Macy's in Herald Sqaure.

I loved those times as a kid, they are some of my most favorite and cherished holiday memories.