Ten Things Tuesday- Tis the Season

Well it's a no go on the home refinance.
Apparently a 100 year old small farmhouse on 4-1/2 acres is just not worth enough.

Credit came back fine.
So did the debt/income ratio.
We had enough money in the bank.

The place is worth more than we wanted to borrow.
Just not enough.

So we wasted $537.
Yay!

But onto more interesting things.
Today is Tuesday.
Time for Ten Things Tuesday, which I have missed the last few.

This weeks Ten Things Tuesday is about what this time of year is all about.
So, here we go:

Tis the season for

1. Conversion
     Scholars have come to the conclusion that Jesus was actually born in September, but I have seen people date his birth as early as late spring. Why did they pick December 25th as the day to celebrate His birth? That date is during Yule and the best way to get pagans to change their religion is if another religion is right there to take it's place.

2. Shopping
     Sales out the wing wang. I still don't know what I am getting for my daughter, but I am sure I will find a bargain.

3. Checkout lines are all open.
     The only time that happens at Target and Walmart is during the holiday season. Possibly Kmart too. So many have closed, I can't find one.

4. Waiting
     You wait for stores to open. You wait in checkout lines. You wait in return lines. You wait to see if anyone is going to send you a card this year.

5. Eggnog
     You can make it anytime you want, but you can only buy it at the store this time of year.

6. Sadness
     Some people get the blues around the holidays. I do. When I was a teen, my grandma was found dead on Christmas Eve. That's a phone call I won't forget. Neither is having to go to my other grandma's on Christmas Day to celebrate. Cause that is just what you do.

7. Candy canes
     Is there a way to eat them without getting all sticky?

8. Christmas movies
     They make tons of made for TV Christmas movies every year. But, I am a fan of A Christmas Story.
I watch that and Scrooged every year.

9.  Decorations and lights
     I am a fan of simple and tasteful. Putting up gazillions of lights and lawn decorations is why I am glad I live in the middle of nowhere so I don't have to see it.

10.  Making cookies
     People that never bake cookies, bake this time of year. My daughter, nieces, and I get together and make cookies. My sister doesn't celebrate Christmas anymore and she doesn't talk me much so she doesn't come anymore.

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Have a great Tuesday!

OK, So What Is It?

Is it a hair product?

Is it a wood cleaner?

Or, it it something closely resembling cheese?

Only you can decide.

Almost Officially Over It

I know Thanksgiving or Thanksgivikkah(thank you, Robyn) is not here yet, but I am already sick of Christmas.

Sick of all the TV and internet ads.
People putting up trees and lights and posting pictures on the internet.

I hate the commercialization of Christmas.

Some of the same people that write "Tis the reason for the season" are the same ones that spends shit tons of money on gifts.

Which, good for you, if you want to and you can.
But, what happened to Christmas is love?
Last time I checked love did not come in a box.

My husband was raised getting tons of gifts for Christmas.
I was not.

He thinks it's a lean year if we can't buy tons of things.
Which is pretty much the norm.

I'd rather give a gift just cause rather than because I have to.

I used to mail Christmas cards.
I barely got any.
I never even got a thank you.

Is a thank you so hard?

I know. I know.
But, I put thought and effort and a thank you to show appreciation is nice to get.

Last year I really didn't care about getting a tree.
This year I don't either.

We don't celebrate the religious aspect of it.

I just I might as well start saying " Bah Humbug!"