ramblings of a mad woman

NOJOMO day 4

So I drove my 50 mile ride trip to go to Ace Hardware store to pick up my 35 lb bag of Lamb and Rice Nutro Natural choice dog food the kind made for the large breed dogs. My boys are big boys. Tucker, my rottie, he weighs 165lbs and Marley my yellow lab weighs somewhere in the triple digits. I have never really been able to weigh him beacuse he doesn’t want to play nice and stand long enough on the vet’s scale. Everybody and I mean everyone that sees him tells me that he is FAT. I hem and haw and tell these people that my dog is of a stocker bread type of yellow lab-I think he is official called an English labrador. I have googled images of this type of breed and Marly fits the discription to a T. I feel like I’m a protective mother of my four legged friend, so if the next person tells me my dog is fat well I’m just going to educate them about the different types of labs. How dare they tell me my dog is fat! So There!

Moving right along

{RANT}

While at the hardware store I couldn’t help but notice a big green florescent sign that proclaimed ALL CHRISTMAS ITEMS 25% OFF. My head took a double take shouldn’t that sign say “all halloween stuff 25% off”. The sign was corret indeed and there was two aisles full of Chistmas stuff on sale what the –! My blood was boiling. Christmas is being pushed forward. Heck, now that I think about it Costco had all it’s bells,whistles, glitter and everything sparkly displayed before halloween. What happended to waiting for Thanksgiving. We just got down with halloween and now we have Chistmas shoved down our throats. I realize that retailers are desperate to recover from slumping sales due to the recession. The thing is I really haven’t had time to savor halloween enjoy the after glow per sa and then to have Thanksgiving coming up soon, and form the looks of it we’ll just barely catch a glimpse of it because the mighty CHRISTMAS will take over. This is one of the reasons I don’t enjoy Christmas any more because it’s all about greed. It should be called Greedmas. {/RANT}

MY LATEST DIGI

LOL…I found all those men except for #3. Ok, my husband’s favorite rant is about how early Christmas stuff comes out. I finally gave him a response that shut him up! See, the thing is, we women have a lot to do to get ready for Christmas. Actually we WANT to do it all, but it takes time…baking, shopping, wrapping, mailing, decorating, caroling, entertaining, merry making…we need more time!

So it’s GOOD that they start it early so we can get a jump on it. This has been a complaint of hubby’s for 25 years so don’t think the “starting Christmas after Halloween” thing is new to this millenium. I say, find something more profound to complain about!

I’m not a fan of Christmas holidays. We don’t do gifts anymore – just the 1 for my 11 year old niece and 4 year old nephew and we are done. No tree, no decorations, no troubles. We go to church, eat Chinese food and go to a movie. I’m a fan of getting through the day. No one day can be so awesome that it lives up to the hype of months of preperation. That and my parents being gone….. makes it sad.

I agree about the Christmas thing. I heard on TV that Sears is going to try to start having a new black friday this week, instead of the day after Thanksgiving. Whaaa? It just gets crazier & crazier. This year I’m going to give my relatives money or things that they will use, like fill my parents oil tank. None of us really needs any of the stuff we buy eachother around here. I loved the thing at the end of your entry. Too funny!