Today’s column is like a Christmas stocking with a little of the expected, a little unexpected and maybe something puzzling:
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My favorite part of the holiday season has finally arrived.
Almost all the community events are over along with the business parties and social events. The last few days before Christmas are time for family and really, really close friends.
The time has at last arrived to ease down, move closer together and rejoice in the true meaning of the season, the gift it represents and our desire to emulate that giving spirit in joy and love.
With the weather certainly doing its part, it’s time to get snuggly inside, sip on hot chocolate or eggnog and admire Christmas trees and other holiday decorations and, most importantly, the company of those we love.
The time is here to enjoy and share whatever delicacies our past and traditions have led us to associate with the season, be it deviled eggs (or dressed eggs as we once called them in the South), pickled pigs feet, pigs in a blanket or fresh lobster.
The quiet time of Christmas is here. Revel and rejoice in it.
Have a most Merry Christmas.
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Will someone call the folks at the Tennessee Lottery and explain to them that it’s “visions of sugar plums dance in their heads,” not sugar plum fairies?
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I’m lucky enough to have a personal shopper. Well, OK, she’s my daughter and I don’t pay her unless you count cooking her dinner every Sunday night.
But, last week I did my Christmas shopping for the missus. With the daughter’s help it took about an hour because she and mom shop a lot so Amber could take me right to the right store, the right present, the right size, color or smell.
It usually takes me about an hour gazing around in confusion before I, and likely lots of men, figure out what most stores catering to women are even selling.
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What kind of idiot thinks in this day and time a U.S. Senate seat can be auctioned off?
Talk about your America’s dumbest criminals?
As you undoubtedly know, Illinois’ governor was shopping around the open seat left by President-elect Obama.
Now, if a crooked politician makes some one-on-one deal for such a political plum and everyone stays on the down low and keeps their mouth shut, then you might pull that off.
But, auctioning the seat off is going to go public. Someone, say a losing bidder or someone just offended by the idea, is bound to talk, as apparently happened in this case.
The New York governor who brought a prostitute to Washington, D.C., seemed to display an arrogance and lack of common sense beyond belief (what they are no prostitutes in D.C.?)
Illinois governor seems to have topped him.
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Geez, is it ever going to stop raining?
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Aaack. After watching Jeff Fisher send in the field goal team about eight zillion times in the 10 years the Titans have been in town, many times when you wish he would just once go for it, when all we need of a three-pointer, what does he do?
Aaaak. He goes for it on fourth and three, figuring too much wind in the damaged Texas stadium made a kick by ever-accurate Rob Bironas impossible. On a day when quarterback Kerry Collins is not having a good day, and sure enough overthrows his receiver.
Oh, well, it just makes today’s game with the surging Steelers really exciting as home field for the AFC championship is on the line.
Back before the season started, did anyone ever consider the possibility of today’s matchup? That the Titans would be locked as the AFC South champs, hold the best record in pro football and be playing for the right to host the playoff conference championship?
Don’t think so.
And mainly because even coming off a year when Tennessee was a surprising 10-6 and made the playoffs last season, the schedule looked so much tougher this year.
That didn’t play out quite as expected.
Go Titans. |
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