AND don't forget the poor souls who have birthdays between Xmas and New Years Day like me! Today's my birthday and I wish all the other inbetweeners a happy birthday and I do hope they are happy.

It's located in a region of one of the finger lakes. Which one? "Why, the longest, dirtiest one!" Quote by Fred Armisen portraying Lawrence Welk in a Dooneese skit.

Licorice is one of those polarizing foods, IMO. My grandparents came over on the boat from Scotland and I remember how my grandpa loved to eat Licorice Allsorts. They looked so colorful but the taste! uck I'll stick with toffee, thankyou.

I think my parents watched way too much Ed Sullivan's show with those wonky acts like that talking hand 'puppet' and those animal acts and some guy balancing spinning dishes on sticks while handstanding on a chair because one holiday I got a frisbee on a stick toy. You'd put the stick vertically in your hand and turn the frisbee over so the stick would hold it up and then you spun that disc. What a waste of time and money!

I find those dolls to be really creepy. I never liked dolls as a child and all my dolls that people insisted on giving me ended up headless. Living in Massachusetts we had a storm run off, not sure what else to call it, flood-plain? where the storm's water and ocean water would flow into an area so the excess water could drain away to prevent flooding. There were all types of tall weeds and witch-grass so we kids would play back there making grass nests to play in. That area was where I buried the doll heads. I'm old now and still don't like dolls so Santa better take note this year.

Where's the cat on the mantle knocking stuff off?

Going into 2025, people are predicting a shit storm with all the anticipated changes coming, brown is definitely the correct color for the coming year.

They forgot the robbers coming for Ralphie and his family. "You win this time, Ralphie. But we'll be back!" And Scut Farkus - "Haw, haw, haw!" And the Bumpus's dogs. 3 villains all in one movie. How could they not include them in their list?

Are these the same flies we call "piss flies"?

It's discarded boxes and wrapping paper from Christmas morning.

Ok! Fairy lights it is.

What a kind thing to do for those ailing children. I put this in the same category as people who volunteer to hold preemie babies at hospitals. Years ago I had a company that made custom to order costumes and I had made an adult sized Cookie Monster for myself for Halloween and having it hanging in my closet I decided to get an okay from my local hospital and wore that costume to visit the sick children in the children's hospital ward. It was great fun to see all the kids get excited to visit with Cookie.

Color me gobsmacked! I wonder what color that would be?