Back to Christmas!

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I’ve been distracted from my Christmas posting by problems with Blogger but worse than that, I’ve neglected my readers by not visiting their blogs.

Here we are in the middle of a season where a fat man will enter my house on criminal trespass under the guise of leaving gifts for which, I suspect, I will land in prison sometime around June when he tries to litigate for the return of his personal property and all I’ve been worrying about is my stupid blog.

Shouldn’t I be spending my time on more important things like figuring out what kind of drugs Santa pumps into those reindeer to make them fly? All I know is that a new roof costs around $5000 and if a reindeer lands on my shingles I’ll be having venison for Christmas dinner.

What I don’t understand is how Santa went from a saintly man of generosity to a magical myth of eternity that fosters selfishness in our children in exchange for appeasing the selfishness of their parents.

It’s amazing how things get blown out of proportion but isn't that how it always happens?

I missed a few days of posting and visiting...the next thing you know, the entire blogosphere will be abuzz with the rumor that I’ve died.

Maybe they’ll deify me.

More Edible Traditions

Have any of you seen those gingerbread house kits?

I guess a homemade gingerbread house is like a custom home while a kit should probably have wheels and a redwood deck but for those who struggle with macaroni and cheese, it’s a great idea. I didn’t check to see if the gingerbread man was wearing a wife beater and holding a can of Pabst but I’m sure he fits the stereotype.

Of course, the kit was sold at Wal-Mart.

Whining

Mrs. Muzikdude and I heard that a glass of red wine per day is healthy so we decided to try it. I’ve discovered that there are exactly 4 glasses of wine in a typical sized bottle so this health experiment has the potential of becoming very costly. While I am not convinced that higher costing wines are necessarily higher quality, I am equally leery of wines in a box or those that are sold by the gallon.

That said: Mrs. Muzikdude and I were at the wine store picking out our weekly stock while trying to remain within a reasonable budget. Mrs. Muzikdude decided we wanted to stay at $10 per bottle or less without dipping below the $5 mark. So, yes, we bought budget wine (mostly anything that was on sale).

The next thing we needed were some wine glasses because drinking a decent Pinot Noir from a mason jar just seems wrong. I found some glasses at Wal-Mart and I put them in the shopping cart. Mrs. Muzikdude had remarked that they weren’t crystal.

“Do we really need crystal?”

“Well, we don’t want to drink wine from cheap glasses”

“We bought budget wine…putting it in crystal would be like breaking out the fine china and silver for a pop tart”

“Fine... Get the cheap glasses then...but I at least want some decent cheese."

I saved a little money on wine glasses but upon purchasing Hoffman's Smoked Cheddar and Alpine Lace Swiss, I realized it would have been cheaper to buy Waterford.

Aaaaaaarrrrrrgh!

You may have noticed that you've been redirected to a blogspot site. I had to rebuild my blog here because Blogger won't publish to my server and no one can seem to tell me why. I spent two days arguing with my webhost and they finally wore me down. So I told them to take a flying leap.

I'll be taking my business elsewhere. They lose.

In the meantime, I'll be using this as a work-around. The only noticable difference will be the silly nav bar at the top of the page.

Tomorrow, I shall return to the same old tripe I've been slinging for the past 12 months.

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Thanks.