… before the holiday season comes upon us like a big dog.
Herewith are my gripes:
1. Dear People: Whether someone wishes you “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays”, please remember that it’s the underlying thought of sending good wishes your way that is important. No need to announce {as did a woman in Dunkin Donuts to Duty after he wished her “Happy Holidays”} that you are a Jehova’s Witness and don’t celebrate the season. Was that necessary? Really, a nice “Thanks and same to you.” is all that is called for in that brief instance. Damn. If someone wished me “Happy Hanukkah”, I’d say “Thanks!” and go on my merry way. WTF is wrong with some people? All that does is make someone self-conscious about saying “Merry Christmas” or whatever. Say it with me now: It’s the intention that counts, folks. Someone sends you good wishes, try hard not to spit in their face, mmmkay?
2. Just because I sit at the reception desk near the elevator does not mean I want to hear you and your clients have their parting words all the livelong day! Just say goodbye and shut up. (GRRR) I hate hate hate small talk.
3. You will not agree with everything Barack Obama does. Dissent is good. But can the bitching at least wait until he’s in office? That’s all that’s on DU, Kos and HuffPo. I think we are heading toward good things in the eventual future once we manage to right the ship that’s pretty much run aground from BushCo. However, it’s gonna take a LONG time to get there. If y’all are gonna be bitching and moaning the entire way, I think I might have to go into CookieLand and never come out. Yeeeesh!
4. I really do love my Ipod touch but it’s almost TOO advanced for me. I liked the simplicity of the nano and Itunes 8 is going to take me 8 years to get organized. Surely my time is better spent playing dumbass games than reorganizing my music library.
5. And another thing: Why does it matter to ANYONE who someone else marries? Leaving out the obvious ‘man-on-dog’ and NAMBLA shit, what’s it to you if two people of the same gender want to marry? Everyone wants to be loved in whatever way that presents itself (minus MOD and NAMBLA and icky stuff like that) and if two consenting adults want that, who are you to say that’s wrong? If it’s in the bible and you choose to follow that, then how’s about YOU not marrying someone of the same sex and mind your own business? Damn. Work on changing in yourself what you don’t like and never mind trying to change what someone else believes because their path is not your path and vice versa. Let them sort it out with God (or not, as the case may be) when their life is over. Because you are not getting any extra heaven friskies for torturing someone to be what they are not or working to take away rights YOU YOURSELF are afforded just because you were born heterosexual. (Grrrr x 10)
Okay, now I feel better. On with the holidays and presents and cookies!
Dang! That was a rant!
I went on to see if you wrote about the highlights of last evening, but – oooh, yuck…I read this.
Glad you got this off your chest so you could return to “love and light” for last night.
Merry Christmas!
I am especially with you on #3 and #4.
#3 is difficult for me because Chicago is such a good media town and so we KNOW, without being told, that Obama isn’t involved in the Blagojevich scandal because NO ONE IN THE ENTIRE DAMN STATE talks to Blago. Before this happened, his approval rating was at 13%. So sorry, Right Wing nutcases, but this just won’t stick to Obama. Why don’t you do your homework and read about our Governor and his relationship to Blago before you lick your chops and and hunger for Obama’s downfall?
#4 works for me, too, because I recently got a new iPod and it’s just too sensitive. I find I’m changing setting, just by sticking my mittens in my pocket alongside it!
Congratulations on the promotion (previous post). Now that you have vented and released all these toxins from your system, you can savor your new status.