A Christmas Rant

Okay, it seriously, seriously, SERIOUSLY pisses me off when people exclude Jesus Christ from the Christmas Celebrations. He is the very reason for the holiday, if Jesus had not been born, there would be no Christmas people...think about it. It frustrates me beyond all reason when people try telling me that I cannot wish people a merry Christmas, instead I must say "Happy Holidays" or "Seasons greetings" IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

Background story to this rant: We had our Christmas concert at work last week, and we were closing it by singing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" and a woman that I work with decided that we needed to be politically correct and change the words to "We wish you a festive holiday" I flipped to say the least...I told her in no uncertain terms, that is is CHRISTMAS and I would refuse to be any part of this concert if they excluded that fact!

Come on now, we don't go around changing the name of any other religious celebration...it is still Kwanza, Ramadan, Yom Kippor, Dawali...so...

KEEP CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS PLEASE

O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A, Oklahoma, OK

Last Sunday, December 4, I had the special honour of going and seeing my good friend Nathan Carroll in the musical "Oklahoma" Now, I have never seen this musical before, lets face it, until now, I have really only ever seen one musical in my life and that was "Anne of Green Gables"
But back to "Oklahoma", for those who don't know, the basic gist of the play is that there is a girl named Laury and she has to pick between two suitors as to whom she will go to the box social with. Classic story line really. Nathan Carroll played Curly, one of the two suitors for Laury. I honestly sat there through the whole thing with a shocked suprised but very happy look on my face. He was absolutely amazing! I mean, I had heard him sing before, but that was a long long time ago. Wow, was all I could say. Nathan was definately the high-light for me in the play, but I can not mention the play without mentioning the songs that I loved the most from it...
"Oh, What a Beautiful Morning"
"The Surrey with the Fringe on Top"
"People will say we're in love"
"Oklahoma"

There were more songs of course, but these are the ones I liked the most.
The only downers for the play were the unfortunate violinist and the overly long intro music.
Overall, the play was excellent and if today was not the last day of preformances, I would definately recommend it to everyone.

Jenelle's rating--A

It's me!

It's a picture of me!

And theres the rub (an update)

<---those are my kids at work, with Rita and Marlene, they ae a good group, some of the time

~I have Lipoma---what is that you ask? It is a build up of fat tissues under the skin that causes a non-cancerous lump...it will never become cancer, it is just really painful

~Graham comes home on the 17th of December!! YAY!

<---Aren't they a cute bunch of children? I think they are, I adore them, they are so much fun and even though I complain about it, it is my life.

~It has been a very odd week, I seem to be "reconnecting" with a lot of old friends this week...actually just in the last couple days...I have talked to Allan from the BL class, Elise, Dave (which was an unfortunate email that should never have been read), my friend Nick is home from Budapest for Christmas, plus all the old youth group is home for the holidays as well...it's just crazy

~Apparently I was in the free paper in the WA this past week with the conspiracy theory of the brown M&Ms

~I finished all my Christmas shopping

~I am headed to Simcoe this weekend to see Nathan Carroll (Nathan's cooler) in a musical...Oklahoma!

~I bed need now....thats not a proper english sentence...awww...screw it, I give up