"I Knew He Was Real!" written by Mike on estrip.org

12/25/09 11:59 - 37ºF - ID#50653

I Knew He Was Real!

My boss just texted me to say that her son who is at that age where it is questionable if he would still believe in Santa or not woke up and came running in saying Santa had put candy canes on his tree last night (each of the kids has a little christmas tree in their room, actually she has a christmas tree in every room of her house at christmas time). But none of them put more candy canes on the tree and he insists there are ones that were not here the night before! How cute!

P.s. paul you have 2 minutes to arrive at mom's before your gifts are forfeited and become mine!

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12/24/09 01:47 - 27ºF - ID#50649

Days of our LIves

I love the annual Days of Our Lives where the Hortons all get together and hang the christmas ornaments with their names on thme on the tree. It doesn't matter whose baby is stolen, who is possessed by the devil, who is sleeping with the priest, on christmas they get together and hang ornaments and i love it!

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12/20/09 06:07 - 30ºF - ID#50614

Saved by the Bell and Crank Dat

WOw! Some people have way too much time on their hands but I freakin love this!!!! It is really quite well edited! I'm so excited, I'm so excited, I"m sooooo scared.....

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12/15/09 05:58 - 32ºF - ID#50568

I will always clap for fairies!

I was reading this article in a magazine and the last paragraph I just really like and really is how I feel so I thought I would write it here. It was an article about Santa Claus by Alexander McCall Smith:

There is a moment in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan when the audience is invited to revive the dying fairy Tinkerbell and told, "if you believe in fairies, clap your hands." And every time, the theater breaks into sustained applause. That is not to suggest there are theaters full of seriously deluded people. What it does tell us is that there are times when we need to pretend to believe in things we know not to be true. WE know that the world is a place of suffering and hardship, and we know, too, that justice and kindness and love and such things will not always prevail against these hard realities. Myths help us to get by. The day they all die and we tell our children exactly how things are, the world will be a poorer, less enchanted place. So don't be ashamed to clap your hands at Peter Pan or act as if Santa exists. He stands for kindness and generosity, and those things are alive and will continue to be alive- as long as we believe in them.

As a side note, as I'm sure most of you can imagine, I believed in Santa for so long and long after I was pretty sure it wasn't the real deal and everyone tried to convince me he was fake, I still wanted to believe so bad. I refused to give up. When it comes down to it, I still do believe, even if I put out cookies and noone eats them, I'll just assume Santa was full, not that he doesn't exist! It's just too sad to imagine!

tinypliny writes at 06:45:27 12/21/09 - Comment #53882: So will I.

lilho writes at 11:04:53 12/15/09 - Comment #53689: awwwwwww! this makes me love you so much more! even though i figured the farce out when i was 6 or 7, however i now think it's great!!!!!! remember how magical it made the world seem?????? being a child is a gift, and you will be gifted foreva!

theecarey writes at 09:44:10 12/15/09 - Comment #53688: WHAT?!?! There is no such thing as Santa????!!!!

Sadly, I was a skeptical child; but playing "Santa" (putting gifts out at night) back when I had family in the area was a fun time.

libertad writes at 09:22:18 12/15/09 - Comment #53683: sorry wrong link. :::link:::

libertad writes at 09:21:06 12/15/09 - Comment #53681: That is so funny that you quoted him today, he was featured on On Point with Tom Ashbrook today.

:::link:::

metalpeter writes at 09:17:57 12/15/09 - Comment #53680: Who says Fairies aren't real. There are some people who believe that every thing has a god that watchs it, or how ever you say that. So who is to say that faries aren't in a mushroom patch in a dark forrest somewhere. There are Fairies and Dragons in multiple cultures all over the world and in terms of dragons they are different. So my question is how could all these places have ideas of draggons before the bibble was written and them not be real at some time or in some form? If they aren't real then how did all these people come up with the same idea?

tinypliny writes at 08:08:03 12/15/09 - Comment #53670: But some audiences ARE seriously deluded though.

jenks writes at 06:40:43 12/15/09 - Comment #53665: I'm with you Mike. I am 33 and my parents still put our presents under the tree after we go to bed on christmas eve. A few years ago my mom wanted me to help "play santa" and bring the presents for me up from the basement and put them under the tree, but I just couldn't do it.

Keep the dream alive! :)

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12/09/09 05:07 - 42ºF - ID#50515

Random Rascists

SO who does these things? These things are case number 1:

1. A customer came in and wanted us to transfer an RX from a different location that he goes to. Becasue he has medicaid his insurance doesn't allow us to transfer between locations so he screams out "DON"T MAKE ME GO BACK TO N***** TOWN". Like at the top of his lungs in a store. What a jerk!

then case number 2, prolly worse

2. I am cashing out a customer and his copays are high and he says to me something along the lines of "these copays are ridiculous we need another HItler to kill the jews and the rich people!" OMG!!! How do you freakin respond to that? I just didn't say anything! I am like wow I should rlaly say something cuz tough the customer is always right, that time I think I would be justified in saying they were not! Can you even believe that? Do you people still really think like that? IT was insanity! I just was like um your toatl is whatever and ignored it completely. BUT WTF WHO DOES THAT?

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12/03/09 07:36 - 42ºF - ID#50453

Stalking in Italy

So according to (e:maureen) stalking has only been against the law since February in Italy. That explains a lot about me, its juts my heritage!

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11/29/09 11:05 - 43ºF - ID#50401

Glitter Glue

Glitter glue is never on sale anywhere! as a heavy glitter user the cost really starts to add up for the good glitter glue. Each bottle does not really hold that much when you really like to make something shimmer!!! i watch all year but never not once is it ever on sale....you would think maybe around christmas time with people making cards and stuff it would be cuz everythign else is on sale! I want my glitter glue and i want it cheap!

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11/27/09 04:01 - 39ºF - ID#50390

Call Me Sir?

So me and (e:mk) went to the Eastern Hills mall for some post thanksgiving shopping and while it was busier than normal it wasn't too crazy cuz that mall is never too crazy, except the bonton that was relaly crazy. There was one thing I wanted that was on super sale but i did not wait cuz the lines were redic!!!! That was the only place that was like that, i don't think they had better stuff it just was that thye had far fewer cashiers!

Anywho that is not the point of this story. I went to American Eagle where I am probably becoming a little too old to shop and I haven't bought anything in a while and the like 16 year old guy worker hands me the like coupon thing they were givin gout and says "here you go sir" and when I was leaving he said "have a nice day sir". Now i prolly have been called sir before but something about tihs time seemed so harsh , it definitely felt like he was saying it in a "Have a nice day old man, be careful not to trip on your wlaker on the way out" or "Here you go old geezer maybe you can find a nice gift here for your grand kids" it made me feel really old, like reals old!!! bleh, all in all though i got some good shopping done today. I even went to target at like 930 and they still had the doorbuster sale iten I wanted and there was like noone in line! SCORE!

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11/24/09 12:04 - 47ºF - ID#50371

Adam Lambert..

annoys me..he think she is so cool and controversial and I find him rather annoying. LIke I think if you have a like pop song written for you after winning American Idol about not being an angel and good but being bad then really you are not bad. If you're bad and so dangerous you don't need a pop song to tell the world about it. It is so contrived in my opinion. I know his performance on the AMA's last night was so controversial because of the sexiness of it but really I just watched it and it was like so like not really that bad at all. Oh the whole thing just annoys me. It was so I'm doing this to do this and be controverisal cuz this is actually waht i want to do or am about. bleh. bleh. bleh.

lauren writes at 12:30:59 11/29/09 - Comment #53181: for the record, I was unaware of the BJ thing connected to this performance that I was commenting on. I do think that no matter what gender or sexuality you are, that would have been edited and controversial.

jason writes at 12:15:02 11/25/09 - Comment #53113: Lauren has a point concerning the Britney issue. People treat man kissing much differently, which is something I just think America has to grow up about. That is "controversial" enough if he wanted to create a buzz. And I think it is good that people are exposed to reality.

The simulated BJ to me crosses the line to vulgar. I don't think anyone doing that on live TV wouldn't catch shit for it. I could be wrong, I don't see too many live TV performances. I cringed, it was like, you know, some asshole is gonna see that and yell TOLD YOU.

metalpeter writes at 07:33:10 11/24/09 - Comment #53110: I didn't see it so I can't say to much. But what I read was about GMA canceling his performance. The writer brought up a point of if some of this is because he is gay, meaning that if he wasn't gay they think that the performance would still be happening. I think that is true.

The thing with image though is you don't know what is really true. How much of what he does is him, how much is to get publicity, how much is the record company, how much is him trying to get away from American Idol, How much of it is to try and sell his brand of makeup or some ones, how much is it to sell leather goods? See all of those are factors. Sometimes (think Marylyn Manson) be hated is good for you and album sales. You get people are riled up and that drives your act and record sales. If I was an artist and people in cities and towns made circles and burned 10Million copies I would love it, guess why they just bought 10 Million copies, and that is just the people who hate me.

For how he shows off the Gay Image, Not sure if it is good or bad really. Jason does make a good point about that. But in other countries where they aren't as sexually repressed or tight that could be completely different.

jason writes at 08:37:30 11/24/09 - Comment #53103: I read about that. You know what's interesting to me about it? He said that MEN can't do what women do with these performances. Maybe he meant it in terms of the kiss, but I took it as something that is more than gay or straight. I don't watch a lot of pop music - but could a straight guy get away with having a chick fake blow him live on the AMAs? That is edgy no matter who you are.

I also have a comment about the sexuality of it all. I had some down time yesterday and read a certain celebutard's web site where he said how great it was that Lambert was being so sexual. Obviously I don't give even a molecule of a shit about two guys getting freaky. But how is that a good image for the gay community? In my mind, I could be wrong, it reinforces the image too many people have that homosexuals are typified by the Folsom street festival. I won't say this about too many pop stars, but he has legit talent and IMO doesn't need to go for the cheap thrills. Pop stars today rely on that shit waaaay too much!

Then again...he did say that he's not for everyone. He doesn't seem to be going for mass appeal. I respect that.

lauren writes at 08:05:17 11/24/09 - Comment #53102: I have to say first of all, that I am not an Adam Lambert fan and don't really know much about it him at all, so I am not defending him as an artist. However, I do think that it's really great that we have an openly gay performer who is willing to be explicit with his sexuality on stage. Madonna and Britney can kiss and they don't have to make sure everyone knows that they are straight and they probably (although I don't know for sure) didn't edit that performance. Women can kiss all the time and it's no big deal because it doesn't make people uncomfortable the way two men kissing does, so I appreciate that he is willing to do that. However, it is also an unfortunate probability that he will become a gay icon for the straight world and everyone will think the whole gay community likes to wear bad eye makeup and be dangerous, just like all lesbians play acoustic guitar like Melissa Ethridge. Ah well.

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11/21/09 01:00 - 46ºF - ID#50357

Sitcoms..I love em

So on Wednesday night I decided to stay home and watch the sitcoms on ABC. They were The Middle, Modern Family and COugar Town. Well I actually only saw part of Cougar town and they had two episodes of Modern Famliy. MOdern Family and The Middle were hilarious! I really thought they were funny and entertaining and I really enjoyed watching a sitcom which I feel like I don't end up watching that much. I feel like I see lots of murder, crime , police shows and it was a really nice change of pace to see happy funny times on sitcoms. I think I am gonna watch more sitcoms and less murder..it makes me happier. THe little kid on the Middle is sooo hilarious! You should def check it out!