Another Christmas is over…
And I’m happy to not have to hear those ultra annoying Toys-R-Us commercials, the ones where some person with a high-pitched voice says, “where kids are a big DEEEEEL!” That voice makes me want to kill something.
I’m tired of just about ALL Christmas commercials. But now we’re subjected to all of the after-Christmas sale commercials. The hell with that…WGBH had a Julia Child marathon on Saturday, and I watched that. When tht was over, I switched over to Create TV, a digital PBS channel. They’re running a marathon of shows relating to New Year’s and Kwanzaa, mostly cooking shows. Good stuff. Since we’re not African-American, we don’t celebrate Kwanzaa, but it’s interesting to learn about it, and what people do to celebrate it.
On commercial TV, no doubt that the ads for New Year’s resolution stuff are coming…ads for diet aids, bodybuilding supplements, stuph like that. Yawn.
Christmas was, as usual, pretty low-key around here. Mike and I didn’t bother with gifts, except for the kitties. The kitties got a lot of stuph, because we participated on a kitty gift exchange on Facebook with Twila, my friend Lauren’s kitty. I made a little video that shows the kitties having fun with some of their new toys.
Christmas Eve, I baked some cookies, and we stayed up and watched Christmas movies, and drank some holiday craft beers. Then, I had trouble sleeping. By 4AM, I couldn’t take it any longer, so I took a couple of OTC sleeping pills, which knocked me out until past noon. No problem!
So we just goofed off, I cooked Christmas dinner, that was pretty much it. Not having to stress out over credit card bills due to holiday overspending…priceless! Now, I’m sure THAT will never make it into a MasterCard ad!
Maybe, if we feel like it, we’ll drive up to Maine to see the Christmas tree made of lobster traps, with lobster buoys as ornaments, that someone built in front of Fox’s Lobster House in York Beach. I saw a picture of this, it looks really cool, but I’d love to see it for myself and take my own pics of it.
I hope everyone had a great holiday, no matter how you chose to celebrate it!
