Paying the piper...

I just want to go on the record right now as having said, "I told you so."  When winter finally arrives, and it will, one way or another, we are going to regret this little weather holiday from reality, guaranteed.  Of course, in the meantime, I, for one, am seriously enjoying it.  I'm not stupid.  I take the good with the bad every time.

I have been waiting for global warming to come to flyover land for quite awhile now, and it seems my wish may finally have come true.  (If I'd known wishes were being granted, I would have asked for something more practical, like a Swiss bank account, but oh well.)

Seasonal greetings....

Every country has its holidays, and wishes for a happy day are given in their own unique ways.  In the U.S. we celebrate the Fourth of July with fireworks, we have Memorial Day and Labor Day to open and close the summer boating season, and most people recognize Halloween, AKA the kickoff for The Holiday Season.  Soon we hear "Happy Thanksgiving" as everything turkey and pilgrim floods the store shelves.  Then, before we have even plucked the napkins off the end cap, we are inundated with Christmas catalogs and a marketing blitz that would bring Ebeneezer himself to his knees.

Social MEdia

Everywhere you look someone is on a cell phone, a laptop, a device of some kind.  We no longer see people's eyes, because they are always focused in a downward direction.  We have launched a generation that has no idea how to have an ongoing conversation, because there are no silent spaces.  Every moment is filled tweeting, texting, e-mailing, or messaging someone who is not there.  They are constantly updating each other on every thought that passes through their minds.  What someone had for breakfast is suddenly equal to, even more important than, the real news of the world.  Why should I care that there is a famine in Africa?  I have breakfast to report.

Narcissus appears to be alive and well and living on planet Earth.

INTJ 101....

I have recently engaged in a mental exercise online which has provided me with some fascinating insight into both myself and other people.  I did a personality profile test, expecting to find some change with the passing years in who I am and how I approach the world.  In fact, I have changed, but only slightly, and I continue to fall into that very small sliver of people known as INTJ on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator personality profile.

Turkey of a day...

Today started as too many Thanksgiving Days do in my house.  The turkey was still frozen, I was tired and didn't want to get out of bed, I am behind on everything, and my dining room table is covered in brochures for work.

Since that early morning hour, I have managed to speed thaw the turkey, cook the giblets, make the stuffing, stuff the bird, get the turkey in the oven, scrub the potatoes, prepare the carrots, get the green bean hot dish ready to pop into the oven, and I even got in a shower.  I fed the rabbit, two dogs, fish and bird, and I have had  a couple cups of coffee.  I am now contemplating my usual Thanksgiving day activity, finishing up the Christmas cards.  Of course, I'm a little behind this year.  I think I have them.  Somewhere.