Category: Holidays

Monday Night Countdown

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 8, 2008

You know the jam:

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me:
Twelve drummers drumming,
Eleven pipers piping,
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree !

Here are my TOP 5 favourite items from that festive track:

5. Six geese a-laying – Who could resist the precious start of Life ?

4. Seven swans a-swimming – I could watch swan swimming for hours !

3. A partridge in a pear tree – Partridges are cute, and I love pears !

2. Nine ladies dancing – As a former clubber I totally dig that !

1. Twelve drummers drumming – Dude it ain’t rock without the drums !

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Holidays Shopping

The Major’s Walk-A-Thon

The standard-issue ‘walk-around-my-neighbourhood’ Saturday morning edition of ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ shall return next weekend. This morning I slept in. How ultimately radical I was to sleep in until shortly past 7 AM !

Last night I was up late with a bunch of my closest friends in Life, and we hung out at this festive joint up in Westchester.

Santa’s Enchanted Forest claims to be ‘The World’s Largest Christmas Theme Park’, and they may just have a legitimate stake to that claim. We walked for miles and miles last night. Much of it was back-and-forth walking, but it was certainly more walking than I would ever do on a typical Saturday morning walk around my neighbourhood.

For years and years in November and December I had driven by that bright spectacle along the west side of the Palmetto Expressway. Now I can say that I’ve finally experienced it. It was all good. I had a ton of fun in the lights of Christmas !

This morning I walked some more – inside and all-around the Homestead Kohl’s store. I went on a MASSIVE hour-long shopping spree that would excite any woman. I clearly purchased over $200 worth of much-needed merchandise and walked out of the store paying about 50% less than that. The savings were ENORMOUS at Kohl’s. If you haven’t been there in awhile then you need to check it out my Christmas shopping friends !

… And that’s how I walk the walk …

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Holidays Money Shopping Travel Weather

Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 2, 2008

Here’s what’s on my mind (pure energy):

1. I was north of Dallas Texas for an entire week last week to celebrate a combined Thanksgiving and Christmas with my Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister-In-Law, and Canine Nephew. We also visited extended family up near Wichita Falls Texas. That’s the first time I had ever been to that fine city. I’d like to visit it again this upcoming Summer. I may drive there. ROAD TRIP !

2. Neither airport that I flew in and out of – FLL nor DFW – was hardly busy on the Saturday before and the Saturday after Thanksgiving. My keen observation summarizes that holiday air travel is a casualty this year of the global recession that we’re in.

3. So America has officially been in a recession for an entire year now – since December 2007. This just in. I am not in a recession. I remain in a vast economic expansion – one that has lasted for over 15 years. Many of you reading this are also in an economic expansion (although you may deny it). Many Americans claim that they are in a recession, but couldn’t tell you why they state so. ‘Because they said so on television’ is not a valid reason why you are in a recession.

4. According to the National Weather Service it was the coldest November in 24 years in Miami, the coldest in 27 years in West Palm Beach and Naples, and the coldest in 38 years on Miami Beach. I blame this on global warming. 🙄

5. Happiness Is – Performing a well-orchestrated ‘grab and save’ at a local neighbourhood Walgreens store and saving a whopping $9.00 while purchasing only two unique items within a matter of a few mere minutes. I also saved $9.10 versus the normal prices that I would have paid for these two items at Publix. Cyber Monday – It’s not just online anymore !

Those are my thoughts on this Tuesday night. Thank You for your time.

Holidays Travel

Saturday Morning Shenanigans

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 15, 2008

Pinch-hitting this morning for ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ – which has been postponed until a later date (possibly during Thanksgiving Week in Allen Texas) – it’s the return of the ‘Saturday Morning Shenanigans’.

Recently (during the week leading up to the 4TH Of July) me and my brother went to San Antonio Texas for 4 days and 3 nights. He actually went there on business, and I tagged along for fun. While he was working for his company at an expo at the Convention Center I was hanging out on the River Walk. Back on the 2ND of July I posted a special on-location edition of ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ from the River Walk. It was a lot of fun, and I’m looking forward to returning there soon.

We had an interesting southward view from our off-the-River-Walk hotel room. Straight out in the background was the 750-foot Tower Of The Americas. It was actually dwarfed by a much shorter hotel that was obviously closer to our hotel than the tower. Oh yeah – there was one other major object within our view from our hotel room – the mother of all Denny’s signs that was so MASSIVE and so bright (at night) that we could have used its light by itself to read a book from inside our room. It instantly became the running gag of our entire vacation there. My brother recalled a classic 1996 episode of ‘Seinfeld’ entitled ‘The Chicken Roaster’ in which Kramer is bothered by a MASSIVE red neon Kenny Rogers Roasters sign that beams directly into his apartment (and of course hijinks ensue).