Like many Christmas wishes..

mine for creating the best blog entry ever was never fulfilled. But that doesn't mean that this isn't a great Christmas blog (just like Christmas isn't ruined over a few absent gifts).

I hope you have had a magical (adjective of the month - get some use out of it. It's nearly January) Christmas season. Let's keep the post-season jolly.

ONLY
365
days
til
Christmas 2010.

Cheers!

So, here's the situation.

I'm really busy. Like crazy busy. But I have a renewed commitment to this blog where I want to keep a count-down all the way up til Christmas. So this is kind of a place marker. It's where all of my funny content would have been if my soul was not being drained out of my body.

This is what Santa would look like

if something sucked his soul out.

So, just to keep you informed:

15 days until Christmas! (I didn't even have the heart to format it in the tradition style.. how sad..)

In this Christmas post, I remind you of the meaning of Christmas

And I'm not talking about baby Jesus. I mean, baby Jesus is the reason for the season. He's the foundation of Christmas [it is Christ-mas, after all]. For sake of seasonal appropriateness, let's pretend we're building a gingerbread house. Jesus is the cardboard/plate that you're standing the house on. Without Jesus, you're just making a tasty mess you probably won't be able to clean off of your kitchen table without some effort.

The gingerbread pieces are the people around you that you care about. Pretend you live inside of a gingerhouse for some reason (I think that makes you a little gingerbread-person). You're in there, chilling out, catching what ever is on your gumdrop tv. It's cold outside, but you don't notice because there are walls that keep the wind from coming in. Life is cold half of the time; your friends, family, etc... that's what keeps you warm.

See all of that icing holding the gingerbread house together? That's the meaning of Christmas. That's love. Sticky, messy love. That's why we come together in the first place. Aside from those awkward situations, that's that makes us get presents for people. Even when Ralphie's aunt got him ridiculous pink bunny pajamas - she did it because she loved him. She also did it, perhaps, because she secretly wanted him to grow up questioning his manhood. That's another story entirely.

And the candy decorations? Well those, my friends, those are the presents, the tree, the blinky-lights, and all other holiday-inspired activities. It would still be a beautiful gingerbread house (Christmas) without them, but boy... it's pretty magical with them.

AND AS ALWAYS.. to conclude.


ONLY

17 days
until
CHRISTMAS!

The Christmas Gang

Here at Walmart, we're looking to supply all of your Christmas needs.

You want to warm your feet with the insides of a reindeer or a snow monster [which seems somehow inappropriate]?









We've got that.


You looking for a gangster puppy dog doll?













For some, ungodly reason... we've got that.

If you're looking to start a holly, jolly gang? We can help you out with that too. For some reason that I cannot really fathom other than that hypothesis.. we are selling Christmas bandannas this year. And they come in three different styles. Possibly so that a city can have up to three competing gangs (a more seasonally appropriate version of The Warriors )












I have a bunch of funny words I could say about these, but I think I'll go back in and add them later. Feeling a little sleepy.

ONLY
21 days
til
CHRISTMAS

The countdown has not been forgotten!

This is a blog entry that is promising a new blog entry tonight. It will be:
a. holly
b. jolly
c. heart-warming
d. all of the above

But just in case you can't count or do simple math...

ONLY
22 Days
TIL
CHRISTMAS!