To: Mr. Grinch, Whoville, USA
Dear Mr. Grinch:
You’ve been misunderstood, I think. Plenty of us hate Christmas. I mean really, it’s enough already with the trees and the lights and the gifts, the gift returns. I would like to personally extend an invitation to you to come to my house for dinner. Yeah, yeah, I know, another party. Another shin-dig git-together. It’s enough already. You don’t have to bring a gift. I won’t bring one for you. I WILL make your favorite roast beast. You can have the whole thing to yourself. I’ll make another one for your dog too, only don’t feel you have to rig him up to your sleigh. I’ll send a car (ok…so admittedly I have no idea how to “send a car,” but I’ll look into it. I can always send my Dad. He has a very nice car and he’s retired now so I think he’d be cool with it). Make it any day you want. Look in your book, your palm pilot, your blackberry, whatever you do, just let me know.
I promise we won’t sing songs or count our blessings. It’ll be your show. My only request, and I think it’s really up your alley, is please, please, PLEASE, will you bring your giant sack and pack up all of my Christmas decorations. Just really, all of it. Pack it up, get it out of here. I just…I just can’t stand doing it myself.
Thanks,
Robin
Wow, there’s an interesting thought. “Deco-Be-Gone: We clean up your holiday decorations so you don’t have to!” I could easily make millions in franchise rights alone …
Comment by Luna Pier Cook — December 31, 2007 @ 6:05 am
I just spent the past 5 hours putting my house back in order. Not bad considering it took 5 days to put everything up in the first place. BUT I would have loved to have paid someone to do both ends for me (especially picking up the *%$@ canaan fir needles that I’m sure I’ll be vacuuming up until next December!).
Happy New Year. At least THAT holiday hasn’t become too commercialized (’ceptin the funky hats, tieras, and noisemakers).
Comment by phyllis — December 31, 2007 @ 4:14 pm
Happy New Year. Would it be wrong to just hurl my tree, decorations and all, out the sliding glass door?
RR
Comment by Rebecca Regnier — January 1, 2008 @ 2:02 pm
Well, the good news is it’s done. The stuff is down, boxed up and stuffed back into the attic. My daughter walked downstairs this p.m. and said, “Oh, our house is really boring again.”
That it is.
Comment by Robin Dec — January 1, 2008 @ 6:41 pm
Rebecca, yes it would be wrong. Maybe an undecorating party is in order. Invite friends and spill beer!
Comment by Luna Pier Cook — January 1, 2008 @ 9:49 pm
Y’know, I like the undecorating party idea. We could have done it w/ the fondu-ing. I’m still waiting for Rebecca to post pictures of my fon-don’t. It would have ended badly! Also…her WW-point friendly cake was WAY yummy after I slathered it in fondue chocolate. Mmmmmmmm.
Comment by Robin Dec — January 2, 2008 @ 12:35 am
is’t fon-don’t that funky frosting on wedding cakes??
As long as chocolate is involved, it’s a party!
Comment by Phyllis — January 2, 2008 @ 10:17 am
I can’t seem to get the fondon’t pics out of the camera or the cake. Fondon’t was actually batter dipped chicken where the chicken didn’t quite finish. The cake was gorgeous though! Thank you new mixer.
My tree is still up but I think I’ll at LEAST take the decorations off it today. YUCK!
RR
Comment by Rebecca Regnier — January 2, 2008 @ 2:28 pm
Happy New Year!
I was the luckiest lady in all of Bedford…..my hubby took down all the decorations–cept the snowmen, I leave them out until March. We called him scrooge, but I was cookin’ and didn’t have to participate—YIPPEEEEEEEEE. He even took all the outside lights off. Ours played to music and since Christmas was over he thought we shouldn’t play it. I didn’t get a picture :(, it sure was pretty. RR (we in same sub) we are adding more for next year. His goal to be tasteful Griswold’s
Cheers
Comment by Cheryl Engfer — January 3, 2008 @ 12:25 am
“I can’t seem to get the fondon’t pics out of the camera or the cake.”
Rebecca, I’m trying to figure out why the pictures would be in the cake …
Comment by Luna Pier Cook — January 3, 2008 @ 4:43 am
Maybe that’s why the camera won’t work.
Comment by Robin Dec — January 3, 2008 @ 10:24 am
maybe it’s fondon’t pix in camera and fondon’t picks (like dipping things?) in the cake? sounds like too much champagne was flowing!
Comment by phyllis — January 3, 2008 @ 9:12 pm