Sunday, December 03, 2006
Yes folks. Christmas is here again! Actually it was kind of already here since late October... decorations are getting ridiculously set up earlier and earlier. I wonder if its actually mass corporate strategy to get the decorations up to avoid "peak period" surcharge, and the decoration people are just extending the peak period every year to match corporate stupidity. So from early Dec to late Nov, late Nov to early Nov, and now mid October. In 5 years decorations and advertisements will start in June, in 10 they will just make permanent Christmas features, and in 20 they'll just open a shop that perpetually has Christmas motifs and sales. They might even buy back Christmas Island cos it's good marketing.
But i digress. I hate buying presents cos i never know what to get for anyone. I'd get mum jewellery,
but do i look like a fucking bank? Get my dad tee shirts every year so he'd get rid of his horribly torn ones... but
apparently you can't buy comfort like rags. And my biological father used to earn 30K a month (that's the minimum we GUESSED anyway), so the easiest thing was to buy him a cigar. He showed his appreciation by smoking it in front of you immediately. Satisfactorily gone in a puff of smoke. My mum recycled and gave away perfume and one year to my aunt's mother in law... unfortunately mum didn't realise that she gave it back to the original person who had given it to her in the first place. How embarassing. Now she just gives old people cash.
So here's a hint guys: Recycling cash is NEVER wrong.
And for you Catholics, remember to go to Church! Have a bloody Mary Christmas! Eat, Drink, and Be Mary!
Photo courtesy of http://indexed.blogspot.com, which, by the way, is one helluva funny blog.
