Cecil, a fellow Georgian, is the recipient of number six. For those of you who are wondering why I’m creating all these Christmas cards, the details are here.
As for number six, well the old Nutcracker came to mind.
These guys always look a little crazed to me. You know, wide eyed, sort of in a trance or something. I guess cracking too many nuts will do that to you. I wouldn’t be surprised if they make it against the law before long since it seems to have such a detrimental effect on these guys.
If they do, a whole new kind of crack house will evolve ya know.
Yep, abandoned houses in decent neighborhoods all over America will rise to become havens for drifting nutcrackers.
Nutcracker houses, that’s what they’ll call ‘em.
They’ll be marching in at all hours, carrying on with their sabres and knocking each other’s hats off. Strewing pecan shells and walnut shells all over the street…not to mention that tin horn crap they play in their cars with the volume cranked up to the max. All because of their crack habit…the insatiable need to crack nuts. Who raised ‘em anyway?!
Maybe it’ll never get to that. Hopefully it’s just a few lost nutcrackers we see once a year. You know, bad childhoods, crackaholic parents and such. Perhaps society can keep them confined to the theater, acting, until they kick their habit. Let’s hope so. More nut cases…that’s all we need!
I’ve taken to noticing just how many business people are now sending Christmas cards with their photos somewhere on the card. It seems if you’re in business, you just aren’t hip if you don’t plaster your photo on stuff.
It’s pretty obvious why they do this in a Christmas card. They know you will open a Christmas card. They also know there is a chance you won’t have a clue who they are. So, they send you a photo Christmas card.
I contend that if there is a chance I won’t know who you are, then why the heck would you send me a Christmas card?!?
But it happens.
Soooooo…
Being that Christmas cards have multiple uses, such as:
- Sincere caring wishes for the holiday season between friends and loved ones
- Once a year updates between distant friends
- Outdoing your circle of friends with the most expensive card available
- Sending money to the grandkids
- Brown nosing the boss
- Pulling the wool over the employees’ eyes
- And many, many more…
I think it is best to be open and straightforward in one’s motives if sending a Christmas card to a customer. Some people are smart enough to see through a straight up Christmas card from a businessman. I mean how close are you to your insurance agent, really? When you move to Idaho and change agents, will he still send you a card? I don’t think so.
So be clear…like Ray here. Say why you’re sending the Christmas card.
We all like to get a deal on whatever we buy. The Internet has become a convenient way to find deals on practically anything. This makes shopping on a budget a bit easier. One thing that has gone missing though is a single source for all the coupons and deals being offered by all the major retailers like Barnes & Noble, Office Depot, Circuit City, Target, and such. Well, I’ve found a site that consolidates a lot of these coupons and rebates. It’s called Ebates.com. You can click the link above to pay them a visit if you like.
The site has been featured on CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping…so they aren’t a fly by night affair. You do have to sign up to take advantage of the offers but so far, I’ve experienced no adverse effects from doing so.
As for budget shopping, aside from using a site like ebates.com to your advantage, we males could take the hint from the sketch above and have a happy household well into 2007.
Loves hunting…
Loves fishing…
Loves camping…
Loves bar-b-que…
Loves NASCAR
Loves Latin dance (watching it)
Avid birdwatcher (3 pair of binoculars)
Loves the arts (especially life drawing)
Loves music (plays the harmonica)
Loves animals (used to raise sheep)
Seeks female of like tastes and interests for fun and frolick (mostly frolick).
Prefers voluptuous blonds but would consider others if none available.
Privately educated.
President of my own company.
Retired early.
Gentle.
Non-smoker, but you can smoke all you want.
Non-drinker, ditto.
What’s that? You say the Amazing Allysens’ cell phones are out of range up here?…and they’re getting reeeally annoyed?!
Lock ‘em in a room with the Dora the Explorers!
That’ll fix the little twits!
Faces in a crowd.
Name shouted.
Shout acknowledged.
Big grin.
I’m having a heck of a time feeling upbeat lately for reasons I won’t get into. Soooo…I thought this would be a good time to do some whimsical drawings to make myself and my wife chuckle a little.
I don’t know about you, but when I’m troubled, my patience disappears (not that I have a lot of it to begin with). Thus you’ll notice in this a “sloppy” style. Frankly, I don’t care. I’m doing this for self-therapy not for juried exhibition. So, be prepared…whatever comes out is what you get for a while. Don’t worry, I don’t do dark humor, skulls or “images from my dark side” and such. Hey, I drew a sweet potato a couple of posts ago for cryin’ out loud.
If, by some disturbing chance you like any of them, please leave a comment. I could use the morale boost.
If you don’t like them, comment anyway. I need friends.
