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What irks me about the holidays
Sason:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on January 01, 2011, 01:09:30 pm ---
This is for Chrissie--
Happy New Year!!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lzQxjGL9S0[/youtube]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_One
Dinner for One
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Even if I'm not Chrissi, I enjoyed it a lot! ;D Thanks for finding it John!
From Wikepedia:
--- Quote ---The sketch presents the 90th birthday of elderly upper-class Englishwoman Miss Sophie,
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What the hell ???
I mean; can you be anything else than elderly when you're 90?? Why mention it at all?
I'd say it goes without saying that when you're 90, you're also elderly....? ::) ::) ::)
brianr:
This reminds me of a conversation I recently had with my sister. When are you elderly? She is 76 and does not feel elderly yet. Hopefully at 66 I am not elderly. :) Those of you in your 20's and 30's may have a different opinion. The same thing occurred with middlle-aged. However I am now willing to admit that I am probably past middle age. When I was in my 20's, my best mate was 18 and often called me 'old man' and 'over the hill'. Now that he is in his 50's and a grandfather, I often stir him about that.
And Jeff, when you are retired you cannot wait for the silly season to be over and everyone else goes back to work so things are normal again. Here in the Southern hemisphere that is not until late January unfortunately.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 01, 2011, 05:31:41 pm ---What irks me about the holidays? Having to go back to work when they're over. :-\
I've reached the point in my current job where I can now easily save up enough vacation time that I don't have to work between Christmas and New Year's. I could get used to being a gentleman of leisure. Unfortunately, it all comes to an end Monday morning. :-\
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Now this is something I don't have to deal with. I only get out early on Christmas Eve, and off Christmas Day, and the same for New Year's Eve and New Year's day.
It was different for the recent holidays as they fell on Saturday, so I had the day after off as I don't work Sundays. It will be that way this year, as the holidays will fall on Sundays, so the banks will be closed on Monday.
;D
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Ok, it's two days after the 12 days of Christmas, but this
is just too odd not to include it in our very disparate thread:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK2q3rjKCvI&feature[/youtube]
Lynne:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 01, 2011, 05:31:41 pm ---What irks me about the holidays? Having to go back to work when they're over. :-\
I've reached the point in my current job where I can now easily save up enough vacation time that I don't have to work between Christmas and New Year's. I could get used to being a gentleman of leisure. Unfortunately, it all comes to an end Monday morning. :-\
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That irked me this year too, Jeff. I usually don't work between Christmas and New Year's, but this time I *wanted* to work and be finished with the job. But I wasn't 'allowed' to. So I went ahead and filed for unemployment for that week (not that I expect to need it, but it won't hurt to not have the 'waiting week'). And the first week of January was 3 days - Friday being an 'off' Friday - so nothing is going to get done until maybe this Monday and everything will be dragged out until the end of the month.
Meanwhile, I could be more actively pursuing new jobs...a topic which I should take over to my blog...
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