Wow! I haven't been on for a month. I really need to start getting serious about this blogging thing. Of course my new laptop really makes it nicer and funner to work on ,so I can see myself doing this more. Thank you honey. Well it's that time of year when we run all over town looking for that perfect gift for our loved ones making ourselves crazy, only to have find they have changed their minds, or it's not the right size, color, style, and so on and so on. You get the point. Every year I ask myself why am I not prepared and why do I do this to myself? Christmas has become so commercialized that I think we loose sight of the reason for the season. I'm not religious, but even I sometimes feel resentful that big business has over commercialized us and has made us feel like if we don't fullfil our loved ones wants and wishes we are not only neglectful unfeeling parents, and spouses, but that we just don't care if they are happy and their unhappiness is all because we didn't buy them that one thing that would make their complete, and dare I say it? We don't really even love them! It's bad enough our children and spouses can make us feel guilty, but when we are slamed with so many commericals everywhere I mean go into a public restroom and most likely you will see some type of advertisement either plastered on the walls, but on the walls of the stalls too. I don't know about you, but I feel like I should be able to pee without being subjected to yet more sale ads. We are so over commercialized we don't blink when we pay ten bucks a ticket and forty dollars for popcorn, and then have to endure thirty minutes worth of commercials. Where is our outrage that we watch twenty minutes of commericals for every sixtey minutes of programming on our big screen t.v.s, or all the sports stadiums have become the frito lay or the viagria bowl, or that the bottom half of our t.v. screens are constancely scrolling one advertisement after another while we try not to be destracted so much we can't enjoy whatever program we are trying to watch. Why have we as a people allowed our congress to give the green light for big business to bombard our every waking moment to the point that we feel as if our lives will be so much better if we just buy that next newer improved more expensive sparkely thing, only to discover we aren't any happier or better off than we were when we were led to believe our lives would be so much better than before we bought whatever. Why have we not expressed our discontent with this over the top hard sales tactics and demanded congress reregulate the amount of time and spaces big bussiness can be allowed to advertise. I feel the amount of commerical advertising is the reason everyone is so much more stressed than we would be with just a plain old recession. After all, how can we not be stressed when we have fewer jobs and more and more commericals telling us we are failures if we don't purchase whatever the flavor of the day is? How is it congress has turned a blind eye are never subjected to non stop advertising? does it not bother them? Or do they all have so much money they would never feel like failures when they can't obtain the hottest sold out everywhere stand in line all night, get up in the wee hours thing we are convinced we can't live without? I'm sure they don't worry all they need to do is have their asstistants asstistant pick up the phone and call any business because they are on friendly terms what with all that money companies shovel in their bank accounts and their campaigns so they can shove their products down our thoarts twenty four seven. Now if you'll excuse me I need to get bak to the gas pump I think I