(I left this little volunteer evergreen in the yard purposely in the hopes that I could get a Charlie Brown Christmas tree picture like this one)
At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows.
~William Shakespeare
*Updated with new buttons*
Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
~Francis C. Farley
This meme has been going around for a few weeks so I thought I might as well go ahead and join in as well. In addition I was tagged for weirdness, not really a surprise, is it? I have responded to that as well.
And so another Thanksgiving weekend, and birthday week for me, has passed….all good things must come to an end. How was it for everyone? Did anyone brave the craziness of this past weekend to go shopping the day after Thanksgiving? I personally don’t have that much courage….or patience. Any horror stories out there?
I have always had mixed feelings on the Bond franchise. I think Sean Connery was fantastic as Bond but it has been so long since I have seen one of those films that I cannot honestly assess my feelings about them. I like Pierce Brosnon as an actor but I felt that the scripts for his Bond movies were fairly weak. That being said I was initially very doubtful about the casting of Daniel Craig and wasn’t sure that this was a film that I wanted to see. However, the marketing department did a fine job with this one as the first trailer I saw hooked me. Thus Monday evening saw Jeff, Cameron and I (there were more invited but life got in the way) at an early showing of Casino Royale.