Daily Insight: Holiday Segway Text

As we all know it is the most wonderful time of the year! It’s holiday season, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hannukah, Kwannza, New Years ect. The day in age we live in no one takes the time to send out too many holiday cards anymore. Too much hassle, too much postage, and God forbid too much writing by hand.

Therefore people are more prone to send out that good old “happy (insert holiday) to you and yours..” mass text. Now this is completely acceptable and even puts a slight smile on my face when I receive these from family and friends. What I will say though is BEWARE of the holiday segway text.

We all know it when we see it…the good old “hey happy (insert holiday), long time no speak how are you?” When this comes across your smart phone screen from an old flame or biddie you should automatically be thinking RED FLAG, FOUL ON THE PLAY, and BIDDIES AND BREADCRUMBS. This is the segway holiday text ladies and gentlemen. The holiday is a reason to reach out, but the long time no see comment is like the cookies and milk left out for Santa. That person knows neither one of you can resist.

It is masked as a harmless happy holiday mass text, yet it is personalized for you. And you are thinking nothing of it. 25 texts and a jug of spiked egg nog later, you are busting out old holiday photos of the Kwannza’s you guys spent together and listening to Boyz II Men Christmas Interpretations, and wearing that hideous sweater they got you. So next time you get a personalized holiday segway text do yourself a favor. Send the warm wishes back, then ask Santa for a new phone number. No one wants to get caught up in that holiday cheer.

-Becks

Daily Insight: Place Settings

“Oh…well hello there November, when the hell did you get here?” That is what I woke up and asked myself this morning. This year is flying by, and I need it to slow its roll.

November is one of my favorite months though, strictly because my inner fat girl can not wait for Thanksgiving. It is the only holiday where gluttony is not only acceptable it is encouraged. Who you invite to break bread or a turkey leg if you will this Thanksgiving can be a metaphor for life almost.

We will all invite some people to Thanksgiving dinner this year, as we do every year. Just be careful who you set that place setting for at your table in a couple of weeks. Everyone that you invite to your table should be bringing something with them. I’ll be damned if you are about to eat at my table and don’t even bring so much as a bottle of wine, or an apple pie.

Not everyone is going to be able to bring their own Waterford china but damn at least a couple of extra napkins would be appreciated. Turkey isn’t cheap, and for that matter neither is that place setting at your table. So be selective of who you invite to your table this Thanksgiving.

I know whomever I invite will be bringing my favorite dessert, some wine and will most likely be bringing home a few turkey sandwiches with them...and I’ll be the one making them…make sure you can say the same.

-Becks