01-02/Holiday Recap

Well you've made it past the holidays. For those of you that are home owners, you can retire your good plates and silverware back to their resting place. For those of you that are not, you can start hitting the mac and cheese again, as the rib eye's and hams go back to special occasion meal status. Unless of course, you make lamb meatloafs in a 3x4 conventional oven on the regular.

It is sad to see holiday parties go, though. As I attended almost none this year, I still think they are a cool concept. While the food and alcohol is usually provided, its fun to see how your co-workers act when they get a little tipsy. I am reminded of a great Holiday Party episode Of Married With Children. Al, late getting to the bank, can see the employees inside drinking, dancing, and throwing money in the air, while Marcy makes copies of her ass on the xerox.

Happily, we will have a month or so break from Jared and Zale's commercials. They seem to think that nothing says holidays during a bad economy like giving someone a diamond ring. I believe it was DeBeers who used to have that violin music aimed at giving you a panic attack unless you ran to the store and bought an anniversary necklace. "A diamond is forever." So is herpes.

The violin tune was catchy though. As it got more intense it seemed like you were watching a murder mystery. Is he going to give her the necklace? Maybe he's going to kill her?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vXHm8TzLzE

Car commercials are just as bad. Lexus seems to think that most people live in 5 bedroom snow covered houses, and to brighten up someone special's holiday means a 50,000 dollar car. Sounds pretty good actually.

I think though, they should film my roomate buying me a used Suzuki Sidekick with a bow on it and driving it up to our rented 2nd and 3rd floor of a house. I hope my 80 year old landlord is in the shot taking out the garbage in his underwear while his wife is yelling at him from the door. Awesome.

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