What's on Your Mind: A New Journey

Went to my nephews Christmas concert tonight (one of those obnoxious grade 1 pageants things) and it was at a Catholic school so guess how much fun that was? The MC started making serious catholic preaching jibes. I'm all for saying "merry christmas" in a catholic school but her exact preach went as follows:

"And when you're out there shopping in malls this month and having your Christmas gatherings and someone wishes you a Happy Holidays, make sure to say Merry Christmas!" With a heavy side-eye mention on Merry Christmas.

Nah lady, I'm going to say Happy Holidays but thanks.

Pretty sure my alternator just died.

Battery light went off on dashboard, tried to make it home and it just stopped at an intersection.

This is honestly the most annoying aspect of the Holiday season. I can't stand the "It's MERRY CHRISTMAS, damn it!" attitude people seem to have. Besides, who gives a shit if someone says "Happy Holidays" instead? It's not like you have to change your holiday of choice, you can still celebrate what you want how you want. The whole debate is a perfect embodiment of entitlement. "Everyone needs to say Merry Christmas because that's the one I celebrate and none of the other holidays matter!"



Exactly.

I've had to sit through enough briefings and power point slides on the "correct" way to handle the whole month. I've basically stopped caring all together, made me a bit of a Scrooge.

If they're already going to get bent out of shape you may as well have fun with the situation and tell them to choke on ass. 

The older I get the more I hate Christmas.  Just give me my presents and I'll give you yours and we can stop pretending like the holiday is about anything else.

My girlfriend and I have been watching Breaking Bad for the past month or so, we're a few episodes into Season 4.

Before this recent rewatch (my second time through, her first) I hadn't seen a single second of the show since the series finale last year. When we started, I was excited to revisit it and remember how tremendous it was. The show hasn't really done that for me though. Now, admittedly, Seasons 4 and 5 were my favorites of the series because of what the show did with Hank and we're sort of getting into that now, but frankly I've felt a little detached from it up to this point.

I know the show will turn around because I had these same thoughts around the same point when I watched the show the first time and it eventually turned into one of my favorite shows of all-time, but it's weird to have the same thoughts. I thought I would look back and be more appreciative, but I'm not. I just want to get to the more intense Walt/Gus and Walt/Hank stuff.

Why are people in California complaining? You DID ask for rain.

Because people in LA love to complain about shit they can't control.

I wasn't being serious. But it's funny how you guys go from no-rain to all-rain. Mother Nature has a sense of humor.

I like the Cthulhu one.

I pretty much hate anything chthulu.

Board games are the reason I can't stand chthulu. For some damned reason I cannot understand, the board game industry is absolutely inundated with games about it. I am so sick of seeing that ugly green creature on so many boxes. It saps the hobby of originality and I can't even imagine how many people it turns off of the hubby, at a time when we are really trying to break as much into mainstream culture as possible. A theme like chthulu is really a step backwards. Zombies as well...