Every year I propose that we travel to Hawaii or the Caribbean as a present to the family for the holidays- instead of shopping for multiple presents, buying and decorating and taking down a tree and other decorations, making a Christmas dinner and baking, and therefore eliminating the holiday strife and stresses. It gets turned down for the traditional celebration. I guess we are conditioned to expect these chores at the end of the year, in spite of how hard we work ALL year to get to this point.
Now I am getting all my ingredients together for a "bake-a-thon" tomorrow.
At the end of the year, I ask myself what progress we have made this year... There are some questions that we still can't answer. For example:
Why do we ship ~$120 billion worth of food to the rest of the world when we still have hungry kids right here?
Why are we dependent on Foreign oil and export more that most other countries, ready to bypass the Saudi production in five to seven years?
Why can't we control ourselves? We eat too much junk and have gotten obese to the point that we need surgery or drugs to lose the weight.
I guess we will have to keep working on these issues, and a few more, like gun control...
Quote of the Day
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
--Andy Rooney--
