Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Morning Widdershins: Festivus for the Rest of Us The Widdershins

The Festivus Pole from Seinfeld

The Festivus Pole from Seinfeld

This is a eve of Festivus, as well as Im posting this in sequence to remind everybody to get their supplies ready for a Big Day. Festivus was conceived by bard Dan OKeefe. Originally it was a decoration of his initial date with spouse Deborah in February, 1965. Later OKeefe viewed a legal holiday as a mobile feast, that he would acknowledgement whenever he thought that a family was in need of a event. His son became a bard for Seinfeld, as well as a legal holiday that we currently delight was born.

Im ready. Ive got a tiny canned ham for a dogs as well as we to share, as well as a small Pepperidge Farm cake that we will adorn with a small bag of M&Ms that we purchased this morning. we will mislay a brush from my pole cleaner as well as prop it in a wastebasket, as well as voila Festivus is here! No decorations have been needed, nor even encouraged. (For those who wish a real holiday, Ive included a link to a site that will sell we Festivus cards, even if that does tend to better a non-commercial suggestion of a day).

After a repast, comes a Airing of a Grievances, that consists of lashing out during all endangered about a disappointments of a past year. There have been assorted styles of grievance airing: yelling, screaming, writing upon a fridge with magic marker, employing a locale crier, or writing in a blog. Lucky you, we have chosen Door Number 6. Im unhappy about a economy, both wars, a unemployment rate, a wage gap, a full of blood insurance association bailout, a 2008 campaign, Senators as well as Congressmen who truly believe that they paint corporations rsther than than people, as well as a general state of affairs in a US of A.

There have been also a obligatory Festivus Miracles. Now, they might be otherwise ordinary even! ts such as a journal delivery, but upon Festivus they have been deemed miraculous. While we would consider a decent health care bill entrance out of cabinet as a loyal miracle, we shall lay here as well as rebuilt to be wowed by supernatural coffee percolations, mail deliveries as well as doggie-walks.

Finally come a Feats of Strength, that might not finish until a head of a domicile has been pinned to a floor. Being infirm has limited my preference in a arena, so we have motionless upon a following: remote control pressing, paper tossing, as well as wrestling with some decisions. When Im through, we will lay prone upon a building as well as summon a Scotties, who will try to lay down upon me. That should do it nicely, as well as will finish Festivus with a bang.

Please share your thoughts about Festivus, raise upon a grievances, as well as well hope for a day of ordinary miracles.

This is an open thread.

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