Tag Archives: holiday

Intermission

♦ December 27, 2011 ♦ 10 Comments

The days between the excess and exhaustion of the holidays and the dawn of the New Year are strange ones. Most people are pretty much done with the merriment, but it takes that week to really get your head wrapped around the idea of the New Year. Cormac suggests simply conking out in a sunny …

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Guest Napper #55: SHHHH! I’m Shopping!

♦ December 23, 2011 ♦ 2 Comments

I just got back from Wegmans. At 9 a.m., the entire produce section was like a piranha feeding frenzy. The olive bar resembled a game of Duck, Duck, Goose, with patrons circling the kalamatas like anxious predators. Tense shoppers parked their carts in gridlocked spots around the cheese island, looking like they need a Valium …

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Bedspins

♦ December 15, 2011 ♦ 2 Comments

Today, I want to bring you a very important holiday safety message.  Please, folks, stay awake while you are using the Sit ‘n Spin. If you are going to do a layout off the Sit ‘n Spin, DO wear some really entertaining socks. Preferably some that will enable us all to make jokes about the …

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Crashed-Out Christmas Help

♦ December 13, 2011 ♦ 1 Comment

So, what was your first job? As the holiday season gets into full swing, I am reminded of my very first minimum wage position at Miller’s Outpost in Moreno Valley, CA.  I think I had just turned 16, so it was December of 1988.  I spent Christmas selling acid-washed jeans, studded denim jackets and pleather …

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