Don't Honk at me it's Christmas:)

Driving home from seeing family for Christmas.   Didn't plan ahead so we pull into an all parking spots open lot to see about something for lunch.  It's Christmas Day.   Somebody pulls in behind us and gives us a loud honk!  I guess we were pondering too long figuring out the situation of open or not.   Please just wait two more seconds and you can go around us and saunter toward the Starbucks which is closed by the way.  We had our eye on....where else...?  Der Wienerschnitzel!!!!  Highly unsual for Christmas lunch, I know.   I politely sang out of the window as we were leaving (close to freeway ramp), in a nice St. Nick tone, "Don't Honk at me, it's Christmas!":)

I love the spirit though, of most:) The reindeer nose on the prius, the Kmart layaway Secret Santas, the extra smiles from strangers. My niece recently saw a rental/ lease sign on a home that instead of saying "For Lease"...it said "For Lease Navidad! "I like that. Creative Spirit or was that Christmas graffiti?

Ho ho ho.

Swell phones and textspense

Just got a new cell phone. The updated version. The smart one as opposed to those "challenged" ones of the early 21st century. It's only $15 dollars a month more for services and only requires 15 more steps to make a simple vanilla call. So as not to stay in the "typewriter" era, I opted for the latest, which is actually the newest, flattest, liposuctioned, botoxed and oh yes... had the moveable wallpaper screen. Wallpaper is what's on your phone. We really need wallpaper, especially if it moves. This helps us to stare at the phone which is not ringing or possible think of who to call. I was pleased to know that at any moment I could spend hours of swiping widgets or icons or little cute squares if you will...this way or that. This is quite fun and possibly worth a fraction of the textspence. I'm so well connected now that I don't know what to do. I can google, schmoogle, email, text, sext, pocket dial, crank call and even order pizza without touching the lovely device which is carefully placed in it's proper spot near the ipod player. (That's another blog). It's uninsured and just because I dropped my last one the first week I owned it, I don't buy insurance. Yes, I'm an uninsured motorola-ist. I finally after an entire day returned the "less plumped up" phone and got one that does the same but is fatter and heavier. The young and techy phone boys thought I was crazy. I gave it a whole 32 hours of trying to make phone calls and random texts to folks that I really don't want to have long conversations with (just kidding if you get texts from me). I could easily figure out the functions and the swipage, etc but just too cumbersome. My hands are also small so I felt like I was palming a basketball when holding it up to my ear although it was sleek and thin as previously mentioned. My family began to wonder if I was giving them the electronic brush off. What's with her? What'd we do? Did we offend? Okay, exaggeration. I did however feel totally handicapped without being able to dish out a quick text. "Honey, can you stop by CVS and bring home some chips ahoys on your way home?" That's all I wanted to say. Instead it was "Mooney can you stop and buy a ship in chrome." Enough said. It has auto correct or something like that. I didn't get to that part. So for a day I ended up with no cookies and having to use my land line. Oh boy!!!!