October 2007 Archives

Our network at this company is insane. Yesterday, it would let me look at blogs, but today it won't. However, it will let me post to mine even though I can't view it. That makes a Whole Lot of Sense.

So, here it is, Halloween, and me without a costume. I wore the gremlin mask to work, which got some good compliments. Still, I'm a little bummed I didn't have time to make a costume, but eh, that just means I'm really itching to make one for next year. As soon as I graduate, I will get the current projects off the table, and there will be much Halloween prop and costume making madness. I will be asked why I am doing that at Christmas. I will just laugh maniacally and throw a spoon at the wall. (That always gets them to shut up.) They will call me mad now, but we'll see who is mad come Halloween!

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Happy Halloween, everyone. May there be lots of treats and few tricks and even more laughs.

IT. IS. NOT. CHRISTMAS.

Do I need to repeat that?

IT. IS. NOT. CHRISTMAS.

For the love of little green men people, this starting Christmas earlier and earlier every year is ridiculous. I’ve seen the invasion of the blasted holiday in stores for the last month and a half. It’s unreal!

Oh, the excuse of the merchandisers and such is that it’s the most profitable time of the year.

I can tell you that is a bunch of old men in ties talking. They see the bottom line, but that’s all. I don’t know about anyone else, but it seems to me that starting Christmas earlier and earlier will defeat the purpose of starting it earlier. Think about it. Who’s going to want to shop and celebrate Christmas when people are already sick of looking at it for three or four months? Barring the fact that the big argument against all of this commercialization is that it takes the meaning away from the holiday, if you make something completely mundane, an every day thing, people will cease to care about it, and suddenly, there goes the bottom line. Besides, there aren’t that many people who want to shop early in the year for Christmas. My mother does it, but she’s insane. (Besides, by the actual holiday, she’s already forgotten where she’s hidden most of the presents, and we end up getting them sent to us in June the next year when she cleans out the closets.) Seriously, for whatever the reason, the madness must be stopped.

If nothing else than for the fact they CAN’T FUCKING TAKE AWAY HALLOWEEN!

Now, I start Halloween in September. But, I’m insane. However, when I go to the store and actually have to dig around the Christmas decorations to get to the Halloween stuff, it makes me a little nuts.

And, don’t get me started on this “Fall Festival” and “Harvest Festival” crap. Get over your politically-correct, bible-thumping, hyper-sensitive insecurities! It’s Halloween. Nothing more; nothing less. If you don’t like it, don’t celebrate it. Don’t let your kids celebrate it. I knew several kids, including my oldest friend, who didn’t celebrate Halloween when we were kids in the eighties, and you know what? They did just fine. They didn’t melt or turn into evil little heathens because they saw other people dressing up or trick-or-treating. They didn’t have to change the friggin’ holiday or shut down parties or whatever. The kids just went about their lives without a problem. But, now the kids are feeding off of their over-sensitive parents and bitching and complaining. Get over it, folks. You can’t please everyone, and no one should try.

This can actually be applied to about a thousand other things that people are groaning and moaning about, but I’m not going to get into it here. Right now, the rant is that I will not let a bunch of whiney ninnies take away a perfectly fun holiday just because they feel like throwing a tantrum.

I swear I’m going to start a Save Halloween movement. To be a member, you have to scare a PC Whiney Baby into wetting his pants.

That's right! I'm back!

There have been changes. I have quit the Job of Hell. I'm now working as a temp in a very low stress job with really good people. I now have internet access at work, which means, I can actually update because updating at noon when I'm actually awake is way better than updating at 11 pm when I'm just coming back from school. A post updated when I'm that tired would make about as much sense as Bob Dylan singing with marbles in his mouth.

Massage school is going fantabulously well, although I did ditch class yesterday. Doing nothing but school and work for four months is not easy. There have been breaks in the monotony, but it's been a long road. There has been much whining. But, today, I feel really, really good. I seriously needed to play hookey yesterday. I didn't think it would have that kind of impact, but it did. I guess because now I feel that there is more and I'm not in a military-like routine.

Of course, I feel sense of doom for tonight's kinesiology test, but eh, that's normal despite my "A" average.

And, also, of course, I haven't been doing much in the way of knitting or crocheting. I knitted three rows on a pair of socks in four months. I'm a maniac, I tell you.

I have done some paper mache, though. I made a couple of huge spoons that were used at an SCA event. I failed to get pictures, and they are now in pieces, so you'll just have to take my word for it. They weren't stellar work anyway. I knew they would be used for assorted activities that probably included hitting other people, so I didn't put too much effort into them or get that attached. They served their purpose, so I'm good.

I've also put the rabbit mask on a stick. It needs a little sanding, some painting and a few finishes and it will be done. I actually hope to do most of that this weekend since it's the last weekend for a while I have free.

So, there you have it. My current existence in a nutshell. I am back, and will be making regular posts as long as I have this job.

Not that anyone comes here anymore to read them. Sorry I've been gone so long. But, it'll be worth it in the end, guys. Seriously. Despite my whining, I'm really happy with the way things are going, and I haven't been this relaxed in five years.

Besides, I give great therapeutic massage. That alone is awesome.