Christmas/Holiday Season 2024

And to all a good night.

 

As a kid watching Saturday morning cartoons I was dazzled by all of the amazing toy companies and their various products and games, Parker Bros, Tonka, Kenner, Ideal, Marx, Mattel, Hasbro etc.Now only Hasbro and Mattel remain.

 

We’re doing a road trip for the holidays, and we’re in an Airbnb that smells like weed. I’m in the living room with to door open trying to get some fresh air, and it’s cold outside.

 

From my timeline these holiday seasons. I hope they weren't complaining about eggs and gas while spending money on muliple shirts for their family

 

My 78-year-old mother had never seen Die Hard, so we watched that yesterday. Kinda fun.

 

I know it is equal parts cliche and terrible idea, but one day you wake up by yourself on Christmas, not really sure how you are going to fill the time. And so you try circling back to a past relationship to see if anything is still there, or at least enough to kill a day together.

But there is no going back to the past. You’ve changed; they’ve moved on without you. You don’t even really know any details about them now; just little details you’ve picked up in passing online. A little more than an hour in you realize this isn’t holding your interest and in fact you are too bored to even keep pretending.

It’s time to move on.

So fare thee well NBA. At least we had some good times in the 80s and early 90s.

 

Happy happy and merry merry to all you filthy animals.

 

We always watch a movie over Christmas with our neighbors of 30+ years. This year it's "Forest Gump." Can't wait, I love that movie. Next year I want to watch "Sully."

 

It's been a tough month here. Around a month ago, a friend at work had a heart attack on the job. She died a couple of days after Thanksgiving, and I've been trying to fill her shoes ever since, which has been challenging. Had the duty today. One of my brothers couldn't make the trip down, the other decided at the last minute to visit friends in San Francisco. So after work, hit a local restaurant with mom. Haven't spent much time with her lately with the upgraded gig and not wanting to deal with one brother's moods.

Dammit, sometimes mom time is the best gift.

 

What a weird interpretation of "Same Auld Lang Syne," do not like, will not stream.

 

We had a solid holiday, considering we were surrounded at all times by MAGAs. But we did have one amusing moment at our Christmas Eve gathering. I went out for half an hour or so in the middle of the afternoon to mail a couple last-minute Christmas cards and buy some more wrapping paper. I walk back into the house and the first thing I hear/see is my father-in-law say to one of my groomsmen "So you must be happy about Trump." I'm not sure which one of them is the bigger Trumpie. The front door is still open behind me and I say "Christ guys you had half an hour to talk about this, you had to wait until right now?" Everyone laughs. Then they started talking about how great things are gonna be, so I went into the bedroom to wrap presents.