I'm smiling now, but give me a few weeks....

Well, I guess it is official....the holiday season is upon us. Come Thursday, there is no turning back--it's madness at the mall. It's crazy people driving....well,....crazy. It's stress and forced fun. It's empty pocketbooks and overstimulated kids.  It's having to do too many things in too short a time span.

And it's not going away for well over a month. Sigh.

So, while you are freaking out trying to get this and that done, I want you remember to have fun during it all. Before you strangle your mother-in-law, I want you to take a moment and find something good in the day. Just when you are gonna snap at that dame cutting in line in front of you--I want you to embrace your inner Mojo Monkey, give her the stink eye, and then find something funny in the situation. We have to remember to laugh.

I emailed two blog pallies yesterday, both of which were fried--and it isn't even Thanksgiving yet.  Laugh, I said to both of them--we gotta laugh......or we are gonna cry.  And I meant it.  Each of us has our own troubles these days, but a little giggle in the day goes a long way, ya know?  I actually woke myself up the other night--from laughing.  That's a good thing--I wish I did that more often.

So, let us all remember how insane this holiday stuff is and how the expectations of some mass media holiday induced frenzy can get the best of us.  I'm gonna try hard to breathe deep, grant a little forgiveness on those I want to murder, and to remember to laugh.

And I'm gonna start on Thursday with our annual $100,000 Pyramid competition at my aunt's house.  Oh, it's tough. It's competitive. It's not really for $100,000--but you'd swear it was for the behavior of the adults playing.  But more than anything....we laugh.  And laugh hard.

I wish the same for you this holiday season, pallies.