A Peck of Gold

Matt's Holiday Showdown

When asked, "How was your Thanksgiving?" in an email, Matt Wilkins, a.k.a. Mr. Monroe, responded with a detailed analysis of the Holidays, complete with a graph chart. He's nothing if not thorough, that man. Anyway, I left the chart off, but posted the report for your viewing pleasure, with permission of course. Beware dear readers - all emails to the Trislers are potential blog topics! Thanks, Matt. Enjoy.

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First off, everyone (I mean everyone) LOVES X-mas. And well they should. It's a great holiday no doubt about it. But is it really the best?

Let's walk through the days and compare.

Month of December: We readily await X-mas, all the while searching for the "perfect" gifts for our family. Having to wait in long shopping lines, worrying if you're spending moola on something that they may never want in the first place. Then you feel bad because if they don't like it, then you just wasted that money.

Month of November: Nothing. No shopping for gifts just making sure you pick up a turkey on the day before.

Winner: Thanksgiving!

X-mas Eve: We sit at home comfy in out houses awaiting X-mas day and enjoying the night before by watching X-mas lights, drinking eggnog, or some sappy thing with the family.

Thanksgiving Eve: Nothing. We just know we're getting fed good tommorrow.

Winner: X-mas!

X-mas Morning: We wake up early and see what we got under the tree!

Thanksgiving Morning: We're still asleep.

Winner: Tie

X-mas Afternoon: We sit around the house bored out of our skulls because there's really nothing else to do.

Thanksgiving Afternoon: Get ready, because after a few hours of watching football that long awaited Thanksgiving Day dinner is coming your way!

Winner: Thanksgiving!

X-mas Night: We're bummed out, sad, that X-mas is over and we have nothing else to wait for till next year.

Thanksgiving Night: We're pumped up and ready to celebrate X-mas next.

Winner: Thanksgiving!

After X-mas Day: Take down decorations, throw out tree, return gifts.

After Thanksgiving Day: Eat turkey leftovers.

Winner: Thanksgiving!

As you can see I've had way too much time on my hands.

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If you're making these very important observations and you've got too much time on your hands, you're primo blogger material. Go ahead. You know you want to.

Posted by Shannon at December 1, 2003 11:39 PM | TrackBack