Thanksgiving, American Idol Christmas, 4 days off

I have seen the American Idol Christmas special advertised for a few weeks now. This means it was probably shot in October. It was on tv last night. First off it is absolutely ridiculous to me to have Christmas shows on before Thanksgiving. Makes no sense. Regardless we decided to tune in. It was dumb. It looked like good ole Rueben was sucking on a green lollipop before the show because his toungue had huge green spot on it, very funny. I just wasn’t into it. Halfway through I told Ali that this was dumb. She agreed and we flipped over to watching another hilarious I Love the 80’s episode on the Tivo.

Down here it is a little tough to get your mind around the idea that it is the holiday season. The warm sunny weather makes it very hard to shift into a holiday mode. Not that I’m complaining but it is one of the minor trade offs you make living in the sub-tropics. The idea of seasons becomes very distorted. Up north when I worked for Entre/Ameridata/GE this was a very special time of year. For the last 2 months of the year I would take off every Monday. 3 day weekends till the end of the year. Also the day before Thanksgiving we would normally slide out at 12 and then participate in a company touch football game. It was always a blast and I always came out of it with some sort of injury. One year a pulled groin, one year a concussion from gettin spiked in the head, it was always fun.. Some of my favorite memories of working there came from the Thanksgiving football game. Who can forget the moment “heartpunch Kliney” earned his nickname by punching would be tacklers in the heart to momentarily stun them? Or when Paul Hulmes almost got into a fight with one of Tim’s friends over excessive rough play? Or one of my all time favorites, when Emmett dances around loud mouth Monty making him look like a complete boob. Thanksgiving was definitely one of the things that was a lot more fun in PA. Down here the day before Thanksgiving means we get to wear jeans, woohoo.

A plus of my job is we get the day after Thanksgiving off as a paid holiday. Our 4 day weekend has no major plans. I feel an urge to attack tiling one of the bathrooms but I am going to resist filling my holiday weekend with hard work. Instead we will do some casual house work, may take my mom downtown to see it decorated for the holidays, possibly take Nicki to the dog beach to run around and a generous dose of doing whatever I damn feel like doing. I may try to do some Christmas shopping, I have done absolutely zero to this point. Have a nice holiday.