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What I learned in 2010

This post might come across as narcissistic. I apologize in advance for that. I do hope there’s enough self-deprecation to make up for it. It’s been quite a strange and unusual year for me. I realize most of you don’t care about those details so I’ll just move on. What I DO want to share is my list of things that I learned this year. Important and ground breaking? Certainly to me … but I hope there are things on this list that don’t match yours. You could also end up reading this and wonder why it took so long for me to figure it all out. I’ll take my chances. Anyway here goes nothing:

Day 5 – And you think your family is bad?

We all have strange relatives. We all have dysfunctional families at times. We don’t always get along. We ARE a family though and I love every single one of them. Here are some examples of families with two extremes. Some love each other too much and others just creep me out.

I won’t be unwrapping this one:

Day 4 – Christmas Trees a plenty

Christmas wouldn’t be the same without the tree. Santa is fun, cookies are delicious but there’s something about that green pine that warms the heart. Like everything else though some people’s definition of the Christmas tree is a bit different. Take a look:

Beer Bottle Tree: Otherwise known as the Redneck tree, I much prefer a nice IPA over this one.

Day 3 – And you thought Griswold was bad

I will admit right here and right now that when it comes to some things I am lazy. (scared is another word I’d use) As I talked about a few days ago I am a Christmas junkie but my junkiness only goes so far. There’s something about plugging electrical cords into power strips which are plugged into outlets which are OUTSIDE! You know where moisture falls? OH wait you didn’t know I had some crazy kind of electric phobia? Well I’m not going into it here..that’s for another blog post. When it comes to Christmas lights I’d prefer to see what other people have created. They just wouldn’t look good on my house. Here’s round 1 of some crazy lunatics:

Day 2 – Where good Christmas songs come from

Nothing says Christmas to me more than Grandma Got run over by a reindeer. Alright that’s just one of them. I have over 6,000 Christmas songs at my disposal. I can bang out a playlist faster than iTunes. So this year rather than just hum along to Justin Bieber singing “Someday at Christmas” (Originally done by Stevie Wonder) let’s take a minute to discover the history behind our most beloved Christmas tunes:

Day 1 – Movie lines, funny scenes and bad eggnog

Movies! Movies! Movies! What’s the first Christmas movie you can think of. Quick … scroll down and put it in the comments! I’ll wait… No there’s no Porky’s Christmas movie… try again. Okay you entered it? Next, what’s your favorite line from a Christmas movie? Can you remember one? Drop that in the comments too. Alright, I’ll spare you any more of this quiz, let’s get to it.

You’ve probably watched Christmas Vacation 100’s of times… okay maybe not YOU but I sure have. This line is funny every time I watch it.

12 days before Christmas countdown

Anyone who knows me personally knows that I am a huge fan of the Christmas season. I’m the fool you’ve seen wearing Santa hats at the store. I can be heard singing random lyrics to random songs and I begin watching Christmas movies on Black Friday. I blame my parents for this crazy behavior. When I was a kid they created an atmosphere of joy and anticipation which would build slowly until Christmas Eve. It was impossible not to get caught up in it. We knew the festivities had begun because Mom would suddenly want to “Let’s go look at the lights!” go driving around. Christmas music would be played a lot around the house. The advent calendar was opened every morning and the candy was eaten. By the time Christmas Eve arrived and our church service concluded I was ready to blast off like a rocket ship.

Prospect POV: Why I’m never going to live there

Another blog post in the Point Of View series. Thanks to Lily for her thoughts:

Hi. My name is Lily Fimamut. I’m 22 years old and have always lived with my parents. I love them tremendously but I needed my freedom and was looking forward to finally moving out. I nervously began my search on the internet a month ago. I can’t remember the specific websites I went to because there were so many but after emailing and researching I decided between 2 places whose location and price was ideal. One of them I’m living in now. The other one I’m not because … well… read on to see:

Why you suck at Twitter

Okay Mr. Professional Social Media guru.. sit down and let’s chat a minute. Oh stop it now… close TweetDeck and give me 5 minutes. Now I know you’re busy and everything but there are some things I need to tell you about why you really DON’T understand this whole Twitter thing.

It’s impossible for you to engage with all of us
Twitter is about engagement. For those people whose followers are in the thousands and even tens of thousands how can you possibly get to know them? It’s more megaphone socializing isn’t it? Too much one way communication. Stop building numbers and build relationships.

You don’t know everything