Happy Holidays !!
November 21, 2008 by Marc Audet
Filed under Relationships
So the countdown is about to begin. (Thanksgiving through Christmas and New Years Day) This year is going to be a little different for us. Surprise!
Like it hasn’t been these past ten or eleven months?
Seriously, the Holiday madness…. For the past twenty-four or so years(can’t remember the exact number and too lazy to do the math right now), I have been in the retail industry full-time. This year I am part-time and in home improvements instead of diamonds, gems and jewelry… as well as blogging and unemployed the rest. Gee, I am a man of “Diversity”. PUKE! I should be able to enjoy the Holiday Season like the rest of civilization.
Perhaps, I can enjoy decorating the outside of our house. Then I can have a good time putting our Christmas tree and the trimmings that go under and around it here as you saw on Marye’s previous post “What Did Your Spouse Bring To The Holidays?”
After as long as I have been in retail, the joy of the Christmas Season had been sucked out of me. Long hours, six day work weeks, especially the past five years that I did it, just did me in. You see I was employed by the American twentieth century “Scrooge”. I used to tease and joke about it. But the truth be known, I have never worked for worse.
My problem is I won’t make a change, as long as I am able to support my family and tolerate it. This also happened to be my first “christian” boss. I enjoyed Christmas, don’t get me wrong.
But this year I intend to ENJOY it. Or I hope to.
Deck the hall with boughs of holly,
Fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra!
Watch Christmas Story to the end if you don’t get that.
Anyone else doing something different than usual for this year’s Christmas Season?
image:(c)marye audet
yep….I am working…so we may go eat Chinese food….Fa ra ra ra ra….
Care for some roast duck?
LOL!
lol!!!
Excellent content and style…keep up the good work!
I know what you mean! I worked in retail for only a couple of years, but dreaded the day after Christmas at Macy’s. That was worse than Christmas Eve…
Thanks Ginger…
Thanks for the encouragement simple and Peggy I had almost forgotten Returns Day. They could be quite lucrative . I can remember turning some into Mega $$$ sales on a different piece of jewelry.
Occasionally I would get an big exchange or new sale that would upset others and one time I remember the manager sending me home early because of a unexpected large diamond sale. Ahhh…Commission sales…
I wasn’t on commission since I sold lowly sheets and bedspreads. I enjoyed that department though, except for the towel end. New towels make me sneeze!
I can’t imagine selling diamonds. They’re so complicated… : )
Peggy- Marc sold HUGE diamonds..and one of his return customers was a Arab guy who bought for his harem every year…cha ching. What Marc doesn’t tell people is he is also a VERY talented designer. He is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
oh…which is really funny because I really dislike jewelry. Now…if he managed williams sonoma ..or an antique shop…or a book store…I would be toast.
“…Fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra!
Watch Christmas Story to the end if you don’t get that.”
I get to hear it live and in person every Christmas dinner.
Funny, the wife’s auntie, uncles and cousins, (They’re all Chinese) sit round Christmas time and Watch ‘Christmas Story’ every year; and when it gets to that scene, they all laugh and hoot like drunken leprechauns. – The only time I ever see ‘em laugh.
Funny! LOL!!!!
::::having nightmares about CHinese drunken Leprechauns:::::
So what do they drink, green saki?
No, but all the fishies be lookin’ right at ya, when you eat them, which is more disconcerting than a duck.
“…having nightmares about CHinese drunken Leprechauns…”
Nahhh…Chinese hold their liquor very well, I’m afraid they’re far too uptight to have that much fun.
ROFL!
Too funny David!