The day after Thanksgiving – oddly not as depressing as usual, but then again I haven’t seen any of my family since yesterday so just wait, I’m sure the depressing will find me.

But work is keeping me occupied. Some data entry since Thanksgiving Week phone calls are seen as tacky here (I love that about GMG), which I’m juggling with trying to watch Silent Hill for the first time and helping Helen and Annette move their blogs to a new server. Just busy work, and therefor a dream compared to the last few days when every little thing was a crisis.

But it’s after turkey day, aka Black Friday,, and of course that means that office chatter has turned from Thanksgiving to how to get home and when to start the post-holiday diet.

Wait, back up – shouldn’t the post-holiday diet be, well… post the holidays? Since when did that start coming up in conversation in November? Granted, people are thinking more about their health these days and the holidays seem to speed by. I can see how you’d want to get a jump start on your weight loss, what with there being no real Christmas vacations anymore.

Still, it’s hard to wrap my brain around conversations that, in years past, would have been all about parade floats, religious debate and what we’ll all be doing for Hanukkah, Christmas, Yule and Solstice. Now replaced by chatter of whether or not the rolls are whole wheat (they never are, Ken!), whether or not turkey is the ideal protein and the many all-purpose benefits of vitamin E, which can apparently heal every ailment known to man.

For being health nuts, they tend to be more nutty than healthy. Granted, we’ve all probably packed on a pound or two during Halloween season and then Thanksgiving pops up, but lord knows there’s almost a month between the two and then a month between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Surely you can eat properly between the feasts without having to go on a diet because the holidays are some kind of free for all? But rather than eat healthy, the ‘rents just talk big and take supplements. Then go about their day with chips, soda, candy and other junk. Then they come to dinner and tell me why I shouldn’t have rolls on the table that aren’t seven grain. Oy!

At least everyone seemed to have a good time? That’s all that matters to me. Speaking of holidays, I have to get back to work or I won’t be out of here in time for my Black Friday sales – Coca-Cola tins, here I come!

Tagged with: Black Friday • Christmas • Coca-Cola • Coke • Diets • Eating Healthy • Halloween • Hanukkah • Health • Healthy Holiday Food • Helen • Silent Hill • Thanksgiving • Yule

Posted by Faith on at 8:50 am

The day has arrived. Laota and I have been watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (the good one with Al Roker and the Rockette’s, not the stink one who’s only claim to fame is Neil Patrick Harris). The parade is fab this year, with my four favorite balloons – The Harold the Police Officer, Tim Burton’s adorable “B”, Kermit the Frog and, of course, the balloon to end all balloons – Hello Kitty as kawaii super hero “Super Cute”!

The highlight of the parade for me this year was The 610 Stomper’s dancing to “I Need A Hero” – it couldn’t have been funnier!

The turkey’s in the oven, Lily’s all filled up with turkey organs and Parents are on their way. No real holiday programming – that bites, but it gets worse every year.

Many happy memories, many happy moments and a very safe, fun and happy Thanksgiving to you!

Tagged with: 610 Stompers • Al Roker • Happy Thanksgiving • Hello Kitty • Kermit • macys thanksgiving day parade • Mary J Blige • Neil Patrick Harris • Rockette • Super Cute • Tim Burton

Posted by Faith on at 4:53 am

It’s about time I started doing this – I meant to get to it during Spring cleaning! But as you may have noticed I’ve been messing around with my current WordPress theme, cleaning things up and re-arranging them in hopes of making this blasted site load faster without having to cache it.

I’ve removed a lot of CSS and some of the coding and am busy re-working it. I’m trying to bone up on my HTML and CSS knowledge so that I can change the theme sometime soon.

I’m actually in the market for new tutorials and such, I really need to brush up on my know-how. I’ve been away from it for so long and the inter web just blew right passed me – and wow, does that sound dirtier than it did in my head. :/

I’m not even hip to the trends anymore! I used to be so on top of the net trends. Stupid real life!

Tagged with: Cascading Style Sheets • CSS • FAQs Help and Tutorials • HTML • Spring Cleaning • Style Sheets • Web Design • Wordpress

Posted by Faith on at 5:38 am