HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?

Listening to the news yesterday morning I heard the usual, people getting shot, killed, robbed, teachers molesting students and so forth.  There was one thing that really made me perk and listen and that was our President Obama was on vacation. This was ok because he works hard and could use one. He took his family to Hawaii but he did come back to take care of business.  This was all fine until I heard the cost of this vacation. IT WAS 4 MILLION DOLLARS. What the hell can you do on a vacation for that kind of money? I guess the biggest question is who is paying for this?

FINISHED!!!!!!!!

The title of this post means exactly what it says. Finished, done, no more.  I am referring to the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season. The erecting of the tree, the shopping excursions where one is knocked from side to side like a ball in a pinball machine and the wrapping of purchased gifts to be given to loved ones in hopes that they will be pleased with what they got. If not so be it.
It was at this point when the wife and I would sit down with a glass of Bailey's Irish Cream, look at each other and say THANK GOD.
The sitting down with the wife is only a memory now because she is doing all of those things in Heaven now preparing for the BIG party with relatives of past years.

I still have that glass of Irish Cream and recall those times we would sit together, smile and lift our glasses to a job well done.

WHAT KIND OF A PERSON IS HE?

I ask what kind of a person is he.  I already know that he drinks, does the drug thing and does not take care of his family and pesters the hell out of his ex wife and daughter. He stopped court ordered child support and dropped his daughter from his insurance. My daughter, when she was working years before carried him on her insurance for seven years and when they got divorced he was to carry her for seven years on his insurance but that didn't happen, he dropped her a month ago.
My daughter is out of a job and both she and my granddaughter need health insurance. Medicaid turned her down so where is she to turn.
She tried getting a restraining order against him but was turned down. Nice court system.
He has supervised visitation but hasn't seen his daughter since July.  His daughter doesn't want anything to do with him.
Michael, you will get yours when you go back to court in January.
You are a real piece of work!!!!!!!!

CHRISTMAS ALBUMS ARN'T WHAT THEY USE TO BE.

If you enjoy Christmas as much as I do, you look forward to the specials on television and a possible new Christmas song or album. There is a radio station out of Chicago that starts playing Christmas music around Thanksgiving and continues to play songs all the way through Christmas day, 24 hours a day. I must admit toward the end of the season at 24 hours a day, the music kind of looses it's luster.

Every year some artist sings a new album with all of the traditional songs. Why can't the new singers leave well enough alone and sing the carols like they did years ago like Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Dean Martin and so many others.  One artist (?) I heard yesterday was Justin Bieber. He made a Christmas album that you could tell it was thrown together to get it out for sale. The copies should be pulled from the shelves and burned.  He sang "Little Drummer Boy" in a version of his own which really sucked. In the middle of this beautiful traditional song he started rapping. WHAT THE HELL.
Silent Night was also a disaster as was the rest of the album. I guess when the girls see stars when they look at him, he can sell anything.  TOO BAD.