Why does it take one day for the city to put up Christmas decorations on the street, and 3 weeks to take it down?
Enough already! get rid of it!

Sorry for the outburst…

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daniel · early evening ·

So this holiday season was so tiring, I have not been to the gym in like two months. I forgot how fun it was! I gathered up my old iPod and drove over around 1:30, and managed to stay two hours! i did my “beach workout (ironic cause I don’t like to go to the beach), which consists of chest, shoulders, abs, and biceps. It was fun cause I was listening to self-motivating songs like I Wanna Be A Supermodel by Jill Sobule, Barbie Girl from the album Aquarium by Aqua, Electric Barberella from the album Duran Duran Greatest by Duran Duran, and The Ketchup Song (Asereje) (Album Version) by LAS KETCHUP. All crazy fun oldies! Go iPod! The best part is they all played from random shuffle. I think my iPod is gay.

I was also surprised how many of those gay muscle boys still checked me out, even though I’ve put on a few… I still got it, I guess! Right before I left I heard The Wrong Fag To Fuck With from the album Dirty Gay Hits by Jonny McGovern. Too funny! Oh well, time to hit the shower.
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daniel · late afternoon · say it ·

The holidays are such a rough time for me. I’ve been in retail for to long to participate anymore. Sorry.

It starts out easily enough. The great fall clothes start to come in (my favorite season for apparel). I buy a few things. Halloween rushes by…Then we put up the holiday decor! Its always fun to transform the store! We start to see cheerful, early shoppers, sales are up, yay! Then its time for Thanksgiving. I do love Thanksgiving!

The day after however, is somewhat painful. Those folks on Black Friday really tear up the place. It is a fun day though, and fools me into thinking this year will be different. I even put up some decorations at home. It all goes downhill rather fast. The store gets messier. People get crazed. They do not watch their children. They leave trash. They are not polite.

Don’t even ask about Christmas Eve. Those people scare me. They are grabbing anything at this point. Stepping on the clothes that they threw on the floor. At the end of business, I have to almost physically remove them. They want to “get one more thing”, and criticize my “holiday spirit”. Oh, and they swear at me too.

Now its over , and I am mentally exhausted, wondering, “was I there?”
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daniel · early afternoon · say it · ping it

Today sucked! Have you ever been so stresssed about something that you abso-fucking-lutlely forget everything about a topic that you have to KNOW??

So, yeah, I bombed out on a conference call at work today. About freaking PAYROLL. I was so worried that I would be asked something that I wouldn’t know that I was frozen. Very bad. I used to excel at things like that, but I feel so poorly equipped in this job. That I’ve had for 2 years. 2 years that feel wasted.

I blame it on the season. Retail Christmas’ suck.

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daniel · late evening · say it · ping it

So, when I worked at a major department store as a visual manager I had an opportunity to bring home some discontinued holiday decor. It was tons of fabulous oversized artificial garland, miles of beautiful ribbon, just great stuff…

So I immediately went to my parents house and regaled my mother with holiday trim. She was the queen of Christmas! Her banister had no match in its lighted pine glory. Add a 12 foot REAL tree, done up in matching red ribbons, and she was the envy of all her neighbors!

And now I have to put all this crap up every year…

Ugh!

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daniel · lunch time · say it · ping it