All Posts Tagged With: "family"

Here’s wishing your Thanksgiving is full of turkey, stuffing, parades, beers, football games, family, friends … and the list goes on and on (as long as it’s good stuff, that is … no family fighting or drinking and driving [note: that kind of stuff is for losers ... and you're no loser, winner])!

I’ll catch you back here on Monday (no review tomorrow … I’ll be enjoying all those things I just covered in the last paragraph) … enjoy the days off, and all the fun you’re bound to have! Happy Turkey Day!

Well folks, it’s that time of the year again …

There’s a little over a month to fill the “simple” requests from our children who are way too young to get the fact that Santa doesn’t really make those expensive toys they’re begging us for, or from our wives, husbands or family members who are old enough to know better, but still don’t seem to get “it”! Yes, welcome to America … a country that doesn’t care how much you make during the rest of the year, as long as you have enough dough in your pocket to blow it all the products the marketers and advertisers profess that you must buy to keep the peace!

Yet, the cold hard truth remains: You honestly don’t need this stuff … Jesus Christ himself didn’t have a Christmas tree, did he (probably because he wasn’t a 5th century German tribesman)? Really … at a time of mass lay-offs, a weak U.S. dollar and general uneasiness about our economic future, does spending hard-earned cash on shiny new (fill in this blank with whatever they’re begging you for) make any sense to you? God, I hope not! Seriously, how can anyone on a budget justify splurging on a 50” plasma TV or a $500 Coach purse when this country is in near financial ruins? Continued

Can you actually lend money to friends or family, while avoiding all the headaches that are associated with it?

The answer: NEVER EVER lend money to friends or family! Really, it’s just not a good idea (hey, don’t look at me like that. No, I’m not a d@#k). By doing so, you’d be mixing business with relationships, and most people who have lent cash to loved ones could attest to the fact that they were never paid back in full (sorry … that’s the sad, sad truth). Look, I know that you have good intentions when you decide to lend money to someone … we all do (or at least did, until we got burned way too many times in the past). But trust me on this one (I’m speaking from experience here): There’s a high probability that it will harm your friendship far worse than it will ever help the borrower’s temporary problem! Continued

If you work for a living, then you MUST get away from the office from time to time.

While this is easy to write, I’m always amazed by how many people I talk with who fail to take the full vacation time off that their company allows them each year. It’s a well-known fact, however, that a happy worker is a much more productive worker, which also makes everyone else in the office (including the head honcho) a winner! What I’m trying to say is forget about cashing those vacation days in at the end of the year – use them to their fullest potential instead! What? You can’t take a whole week off? Well then, take one or more weekdays off around a weekend. I take off on as many of these little “adventures” as I possibly can, which certainly helps save my sanity! Continued

Watching TV is the absolute last thing I want to do when I’m completely bored. Seriously, I no longer have an interest in watching pretend people live their pretend lives — it’s all a bunch of bulls@#t. The simple truth is that they don’t contribute to the quality of my life in any way, shape or form!

“But some of these shows are informative!” you say? Yes, but do you see that when you watch these shows you are simply accepting other people’s interpretation of events … instead of reading all of the facts and drawing your own conclusions? I love how these “educational” sort of shows try to convince you that it’s their way or the highway relating to things happening the way they said it did, when in fact this is just their mere interpretation of what has happened (you know this right?). Continued