It's Christmas time in the city!

[vulgarweed]

Message from your local Grinch to out-of-towners shopping on the Mag Mile: wide crowded sidewalks like the one on North Michigan have lanes just like roads do. Northbound. Southbound. Fast lane. Slow lane. (Yes, I'm talking to you, huge family strolling slowly and erratically six abreast. Nuh-uh.) Meanderthals will, sooner or later, get kicked. Aside from that though, yay! I do like this time of year, I really really do. I even found the last Walgreen's downtown that still had tree lights left.

Because of the nature of our jobs, neither my SO nor I get vacation time at the holiday season. Both sets of our parents came to accept long ago that they simply will not get visits from us anywhere near the Winter Solstice or birthday of Mithras or any of that. Travelling is not one of our options (although it's fine in November and it's fine in January and we'll gladly do it then). This used to make me sad. Now it makes me gloat.

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I don't make New Years' resolutions either. But apparently two of my favorite characters do! (Geez, am I the last person in the Good Omens fandom to link to that today already?)

Brilliant. That's the last word on Intelligent Design and "core values" as far as I'm concerned.

but the most disturbing revelation...Hell is non-smoking?!

*curses*

*thinks well of COURSE it would be - imagine a nic fit for eternity!*

*considers repenting of many things*

...oh...Heaven is too?

*is glad to not be part of Abrahamic-monotheistic-paradigm either way then.*

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The SO says, "Don't get me anything, I know you don't have much money."

I persist.

He says, "OK, a book on ancient Persia."

I love.