just sayin

JUST SAYIN
i dont want to sound like a scrooge today
but this christmas thing has become overrated
maybe overdone is a better word

first we take away our thanksgiving day
to do a preblack friday day
a day when family and friends get together
hopefully to enjoy each others company
and
at our house to watch football and with
a full stomach take a restful nap in the afternoon
returning
at dark time to the table to have more leftovers

why would you want to leave this to find all those
crowds
get tramped get in a fight feel like you are on a
subway in new york city
just to buy something you probably dont need
anyway
its gotten hyped that day and the friday thats black
so so many feel like they have to participate

ok i did it once years ago and barely lived to tell about it
well it was 17 years ago
the scars still remain

then
theres all that spending and buying all those presents
many of which the recipients dont really want

a relative gives away gift cards in $25 increments to be used
from a charity that makes loans to underserved areas to
be used by businesses like farmers shopkeepers taxicabs etc
to expand their business in countries like central and south america
ive taken one of those gifts
selected the person to get the loan
they always seem to pay it back with interest
i then reloan it again
they pay it back

thats a christmas present that keeps on giving

isnt that really what christmas should be about
giving and not receiving

we have gone too far on the receiving end
so much that much our economy almost depends on it

just sayin

the organicgreen doctor

black friday, football

BLACK FRIDAY
am so glad i didnt do it
go to black friday
noticed a relative got a good deal on a 42 ich tv
in the middle of the night
hes skinny and probably just slid right between everyone
to get to that tv
not sure how he got it out though
guess itll be worth it later when he wakes up

cant imagine being out there today in that traffic and
in the middle of all those people
think id rather just pay the higher price and shop on
a wednesday morning at 1000
in fact thats what i do and its just me and the clerks
in the store
somethings are just worth paying for
was traumatized once by black friday but not again

FOOTBALL
was a great thanksgiving if you were the fan of the horns, cowboys
or the ravens and less if you were the fan of the aggies, dolphins
or the 49ers
good games
sorry to see the aggie-horn rivalry end
it wont be replaced by other teams
at least texas still has oklahoma to dislike
aggies dont have nobody

today the lsu plays arkansas
#1 vs #3
hogs win and they may be in
the final big game
lose and lsu is probably in
unless les screws up somewhere
alabama is waiting to just take on the winner

now aggies get to play #1, #2, #3 next year and every year
their record will probably be worse than this years record
but they still will get their payout at the end of the year anyway
isnt thats what this is all about anyway

maybe harvard yale game should be the one we should be
watching
no scholarship schools well not on paper
football at its purist in college

go hogs

the organicgreen doctor

thanks, moment of zen, dark thanksgiving, thanksgiving

THANKS
thanks to the warm response to the article yesterday in the
austin american-statesman
thanks to mary roser for doing a good job
thanks to those of you that have been touched in some way by
the article
thanks to those who plan on getting involved with the alzheimers
movement-lets call it occupy alzheimers

thanks to austinregionalclinic for posting a warm notice about
the article on their website and the warm response to that
posting from patients

thanks to jeff carlton for helping with getting the media exposure

thanks to my wife she for being there over this last year

thanks to the disease for not having progressed much over this
last year

MOMENT OF ZEN
people have been asking about the zen book my wife mentioned
in the article
did a blog on it january 3 2011
here is the farmers luck blog that explains what she was talking about

DARK THANKSGIVING
why are the retailers trying to make thanksgiving darker by making
a black thanksgiving
whats next a black halloween or black veterans day
is there no end in site
black labor day
guess a black halloween would go along with the orange color

leave thanksgiving along please
its for turkey getting together with family being thankful for what
you have and for watching football all day

leave the darkness to black friday
my only experience with black friday was very tramatic
never to be repeated again
here is the black friday experience blog

THANKSGIVING
tomorrow on thanksgiving my wife she and i will be getting together
with family
our two sons both live in california and will be together with my
smiley daughterinlaw she tomorrow
we will be together with my white on white relative now called
my historian brother he and his cowgirl wife she
my rainwater brother he and his wife she who i havent named yet
for fear of retaliation
and my nephew he who did not really fall in the rainwater tank
see this blog on his falling in the tank?

after all these years i am going to cook my first turkey
hope it comes out better than my black friday experience
will be using a recipe from the abc show the chew
it looked good on tv

then we (the males) will 'watch' football after the meal
if you are kin to us you know what the 3 amigos will be doing

do have a happy thanksgiving
and a bright black friday

no blog tomorrow

the organicgreen doctor