Snowman

12-19-13

Christmas party today at work.

I went ahead and have acquired an “ugly” sweater. I went to Savers and found a plain red sweater and what could only be described as a snow skin rug and brought them home to Ken who worked his magic. The rug is actually a flattened snowman that clearly is designed to imitate the bear style rugs. Ken was able to attach the mittens on the sleeves and sewed the feet on the front of the sweater. The piece de resistance is the head. Ken gutted the giant snowman heads and affixed it to the sweater like a hoodie. I now am rocking a snowman hoodie. LOL!!!!

Of course, the only real issue with it is how hot it is, but luckily I am able to wear it on my back unless I need to show it off. Thank goodness for the party being held in the cold warehouse.

The merriment continues this evening with the school’s holiday program at 6. I am all kinds of excited, especially since both the boys also have “solos” for the songs. Bobby is supposed to pretend to eat a bug at some point in the song, and Dax is the kid doing the guitar solo by rocking out air style. Woo hoo!

With all of this holiday cheer, it is really going to be hard to get me motivated today. I also finished this huge reconciliation yesterday which leaves me pretty much caught up and bored silly. I really only have to entertain myself until 11:30, but of course that is actually most of the day. LOL!

As much as I find the Duck Dynasty guy’s comments regarding the LGBT community and truly people in general offensive, I am in a strange place on my opinion on his suspension. He was simply voicing his opinion, which although is vile, is still his right to say. It isn’t like he is mistreating anyone. He is just vocalizing his beliefs. Of course, on the other side of the coin, this means A&E has every right to take him off of their very LGBT friendly station. Their opinion is that he is gross. It is a strange thing all around. Either way, I suppose “punishing” people for being as ignorant as he is may in fact be the only way to get them to think about what they are saying. Just as we put kids in the corner for saying they hate their brother, we are as a society essentially having this guy take a time out to really consider whose feelings he is hurting. It is probably a very simplistic way to look at it, but we truly do need to try to educated people more as opposed to just wacking them on the nose with the rolled up newspaper.