Yeah, things have perked up a little on the job front as the apparent possibility of our office being dissolved have been "back burner-ed" until next year so the end of times has been postponed temporarily. That hasn't made things less busy but has made things less pissy.
That said, it has been extremely difficult to find time/motivation to do some bloggin. Not that I have nothing to say it's just when I feel like sayin' it I am either bogged down in the office or it's late at night and I don't have all the extra energy required to push the computing buttons in the correct order so as a blog is posted on the interwebs. So, my usual high octane mix of occupied buz-i-ness multiplied by chronic laziness has equaled weeks of no posting. So, instead of a quality post you get this crap.
Anyone else having trouble adapting to the cold? I don't know why I even bother wasting the words on this topic but it seems like every year winter comes faster and rather than acting like I am so completely used to it having lived in this region my entire life...I find myself almost unable to deal these days. Hibernation sets in and I simply avoid going outside as much as humanly possible. Somewhere on this life journey I skipped out on "the outdoors man who loves doing winter activities" option and instead went for, "Hey, let's stay in and eat Suzy-Q's and watch all of the Lord of the Rings again!" It's not as if December hits and the thermometer drops to zero and I am all, "What the fuck is this shit?!?! IT'S FALLING RIGHT OUT OF THE SKY!?!?!" It just seems the older I get the more life is looking forward to that break between winters when it is nice out for a minute. I'd move somewhere warmer I suppose if all I had to do was close my eyes and open them elsewhere...along with all my stuff, and maybe some of my friends.
The other thing I am bored of...Christmas. Don't hate it and wouldn't say I am anti-Christmas as I like the time off very much and I do love playing Santa (annual gig is coming up 12/12!). But man, I am sick of the routine, the plastic, the charade, and most of all...I am so very tired of Christmas music. It never changes and it is dull. DULL! DULL!! DULL!!! My receptionist has it playing as I sit on my lunch break tapping this out, she quite likes this holiday stuff, and she is humming along with it and I keep wondering why after all these years she isn't fucking exhausted with the Little Drummer Boy yet?!?! Fuck that little fucker and his fucking drum! Same songs, same styles, same dreary "Holiday cheer" over and over and over and over again. They never add in any new ones and whenever they try they simply suck. Beyond suck; I think the last "new" Christmas song I ever liked was 'Christmas in Hollis' by Run D.M.C. and THAT shit is already like 25 years old?!?!
Then, there's the decor. I am someone who grew up loving the decorating part, the trees, the lights, the blinking shit and these days, what with all our fancy technology, Christmas decorations (and Halloween for that matter) are near Nasa levels of technology. Shit, if you brought an animatronic Santa and a set of fiber-optic lights into the early '80's and showed my 10 year old ass I would have shit holly in my pants. But now, and this may simply be a product of "growing up," I find it all so empty and meaningless. Whether your intention is the Celebration of JEE-ZUS or because you love your family and friends what's a better way to say it then with pure, completely commercialized, insincerity...Made from Chinese plastic that lights the fuck up and sings "Grandmother Got Run Over By a Reindeer until she was fucking dead" at 760 decibels and can be seen and heard from space. Because if you love somebody you must prove it by wasting a significant portion of your income on fucking plastic junk. Regular gifts included.
I recently spent a little time in an American Sales store in my hometown and at first that old, somewhat nostalgic, holiday feeling came over me as I walked into the Christmas decoration section and saw all the old and new fangled Christmas lights and memories abounded and I momentarily thought maybe this year I will decorate my apartment with some lights?!?! Then, after a few minutes, the idea died and I started feeling that sort of commercial manipulation or seasonal exploitation that just irks me. It irks me we live in an economy that is grown dependent on the Holiday season to survive. Everything in retail is driven towards this time of year, the fourth quarter...The black Fridays and Mondays and super-special Internet sales and promotional sales and exclusive holiday gift packs. And all the lame shit that is packed into store shelves so hard that I almost feel embarrassed about buying and giving to anyone. You see those kind of items a lot in stores? Combo packs of DVDs, or large cardboard cutout posters of Batman, or special "You're the best Golfer" wall tapestries...Know what I mean? The kind of shit you only see this time of year that says, "I think you are worth something so I bought you this meaningless, useless item to forever live in the dark reaches of your fucking closet..." Or whatever...Bitching about this stuff is right up there with bitching about the weather...In the end it's just dumb bitching.
There's more to the above I could go on about but my lunch break has run out...All the same...
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
MY BLOG READERS ARE THE MOST!!!
*hands you a melted lump of plastic that at one time was shaped in the form of some thing, idea, or pop cultural icon that personally pleased you at some point in your life.*
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