The other day at the mall Old Navy already had constant Christmas music. That's a little too soon but with the decorations on Elmwood, I'm ok with that. I like it!They look nice and there isn't anything particularly Christmas or Christian about them. Ligths have no religious denomination and the shaped are like snowflakes and the such, much more winter than christmas. Maybe it is such the indoctrination that winter=christmas basically that seeing a snowflake decoration makes us think christmas decoration. It snows for Hanukah and Kwanza and everything else too. The Christians don't have a monopoly on the snow...yet.

Today was the 100th birthday of one of my favorite inventions ever....the cash register. As a youngster when others wanted bikes, and GI Joes, and power wheels, all I wanted was a cash register. I started off with the FisherPrice ones that had the moving conveyor belt and fake big huge coin money and microphone and gradually worked my way up to a real one from my frined's grandma's flower shop. She gave it to me when she got new ones for the store. I eventually also got a newer, cooler one from Service Merchandise (which is now closed)! I miss it cuz that was the store that had all the cash registers out for you to play with though I doubt many other kids loved it as much as I did. I remember trying to save the 150 dollars or whatever it cost to buy at the time and it took me months to get to like the 85 dollar mark and finally my parents put in the rest for some holiday. Even now that I work at a store and am constandly on a register I still sometimes when I am home go down in the basement, plug in that adding machine and go crazy. I love you cash register! Thanks for the memories.!!!

Why can't the Northeast just secede from the Union. We seem to be the only people making sense anymore. I'd say maybe Washington State could join us but they're so far away. So definetely so much of the country seems so backwards I can't believe we are connected. What do you we really need out of the South anyway? Let's just separate, maybe join Canada? I believe we (not NY but a state in the country) now have a senator that is on record as saying gays and single unwed mothers, along with some other groups are not even fit to be teachers, WHAT???

Five more years and I can be an Italian citizen. They may have crazy governments that change weekly but still seem to be more sensible then my fellow citizens.

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So it's official, Chamile ((e:southernyankee) ) has left the b-lo. I saw her drive off in her big ole UHaul that we spent hours filling with her entire life's worth of stuff. And boy do my arms ache. I am just not that strong. Too much heavy lifting more me. Seriously I can barely type. For a glitter of a moment it made me think I need to stop being such a packrack and stop saving so much crap cuz it will be a pain to move one day. BUt that idea has faded and I realize I will never stop saving everything and maybe packing it all up will actually be fun one day.

GOODBYE CHAMILLE, IT'S BEEN FUN! I'LL MISS YOU ALL THE TIME!!