The Happy Tree

I guess you could say that I have a Christmas tree up.  I prefer holiday.  I'm all about annoying those who want to say Christmas and get uppity about it.  It's a happiness tree.  

It's just a small tree my mom got from Dollar General maybe a couple of years ago and it sits on a desk near the table that I work at in our dining room.  It's got lights on it and garland. It's not real decorated with ornaments but it's ok.  I just kind of like it.  I have my spooky cat from CVS.  I call him my emotional support cat Stephen Colbert or I did when I had him at my desk at the office.  I obviously have a real one but I like having Stephen around too. It makes me happy.  

I think people lose the point when it comes to the holidays and yes, I said holidays.  The first attorney I worked with went off on this diatribe about people not saying Merry Christmas.  I didn't understand it. I say both.  I didn't think about it.  Then I realized that came from Bill O'Reilly and one of his Fox News diatribe.  The original ass clown.  

Every year the manager who blabbed my medical pushed Christmas hard on all of us and expected the legal assistants to decorate. I became the Grinch and said not doing it.  She made that time of year really miserable and put people on the spot about what they were doing.  She kept an inventory of all the things she was buying her kids.  Probably love was on there, but I digress.  Someone had asked if we're allowed to say Merry Christmas and she told them yes, that's an expectation.  I said don't expect it from me.  It's like lady are you aware that one of your attorneys celebrates a different faith?  I knew who it was and this person was a little put off by how all of this was thrown in her face. I didn't blame her.  There was no war on Christmas.  Turn off Fox news, weirdos.  And all Tim Allen movies.

Who invented that St. Nick's BS?  When I was a kid, my parents didn't do that.  Money was tough enough so that was a hard pass.  My mom said that was a Milwaukee thing back in the day.

I like the decorations during December.  I think it's a time where people should be appreciative and show a little more kindness.  Count your blessings and remind yourself that others aren't so lucky.  Take a moment to show gratitude and not attitude.

And please, no Tim Allen. I was stuck in a room as an alternate juror a few years back and was subjected to Home Improvement reruns while I did my civic duty.  We shouldn't be subjected to him any time of the year.

I like my happiness tree.  Call it whatever I want, it's my happiness tree.    

  

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