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11/29/2008: The Chia Christmas Tree!

Every year, the Advent Calendar seems to take up more and more real estate in our apartment. When I started doing this in 2002, it was just a little box on the edge of a table. By last year, my imaginary girlfriend and I ate dinner with a three-foot Playmobil “Victorian Grand Mansion” standing between us. This year? Good Christ. I’ll say this: To properly set up everything, I had to spend fifty bucks on lumber and lighting at Home Depot.

Advent Calendaring can be expensive, so if you’re doing any holiday shopping this weekend, do me a favor and use X-E’s Amazon Affiliate Link. Costs you nothing, but if you buy stuff on Amazon after clicking that link, I’ll make a solid thirty cents. Yessss. (Advent Calendar starts Monday. Barring very few exceptions, there will be a new holiday-related blog entry for each day of December, too!)

Man, it’s Christmassy. Honestly and truly. Everyone in our neighborhood used the extended weekend to string blinking lights up outside, and while we didn’t get that far, our apartment is starting to get that familiar waft of artificial pine and cinnamon (thank you Glade), with Christmas decorations old and new beginning to take the place of the many piles of magazines that had been growing in height since last March. Despite the season’s reputation for being gratingly hectic and full of holiday bustle, I don’t think that there’s a time of year when it’s easier to find peace. Or maybe I’m just in that tiny percentage of people who are capable of being totally hypnotized by 89 cent silver garland.

I’ve “raised” a fair share of Chia Pets in my life, but it wasn’t until last year that I decided to turn Chia Pet horticulture into one of my bona fide Christmas traditions. Both the Chia Pet and The Clapper (Chia’s distant, robotic cousin) have long been advertised and sold most aggressively during the holidays, I guess serving as catch-all gifts when you need to buy presents for people you absolutely don’t know at all.

I really wanted this annual rearing of a Chia Pet to be an on-site tradition as well, but I worried that I’d just end up repeating things I’ve already written. Luckily, the Gods of Chia threw me a bone, because I’ve never seen one quite like this before.

It’s not a Chia Pet at all, actually — it’s a Chia Tree with Star Light! This cumbersome title seems to be the nondenominational way of selling what is very obviously a Chia Christmas Tree. Do I need to tell you how much I dig the idea of a Chia Christmas Tree? Do I even have the words to properly manifest my utter ecstasy over this?

It gets better. If you’ve grown Chia Pets in the past, you probably remember the sad rule about soaking the “pot” (or “pet,” or “tree”) and the seeds for a full 24 hours before getting to do anything fun. Typically, I’ve found this waiting period so grueling that I never have fingernails left when it’s over. Well, get ready for a CHIA NEWSFLASH!!! At some point in 2008, they modified the formula, and now, you’re only required to soak the pot and seeds for one measly hour! Incredible! It’s too early for a Christmas Miracle, so what this is, I suppose, is a November 29th Miracle.

After letting my tree and seeds soak for sixty minutes (it still felt like years), I did the ol’ seed-spread. The coat of green Chia sprouts won’t fully materialize for up to two weeks, so I’ll keep you updated. I considered buying a webcam strictly for the site’s readers to have a live status report on my Chia Tree’s growth, but considering that I’m about to spend a month making Playmobil dolls say bad words, I figured that setting up a Chia webcam would push the boundaries of what I can get away with and not be termed an absolute loser by society at large just a little too far. That, and it seemed like a lot of work.

Oh, and as for the “Star Light” — the set comes with a waterproof, rod-shaped battery compartment topped with a light-up star, which sits right in the tree and beams a rainbow of colors from your kitchen windowsill. Really nice touch. I didn’t think I’d find a way to justify my decision to use a Chia Pet as a table centerpiece when we host Christmas dinner in a few weeks, but thar she blows.

Time to go prep, prep and prep some more. I hope you’re all getting into the spirit, and if you’re not, I’m going to beat you over the head with it for the next month. Over and over again. You’re really going to hate me when all’s said and done.

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Haven’t really seen any holiday decorations around the city here. I’m sure someone somewhere has them up just nowhere I have come across.

Okay, that response was a bit hasty. But um…I’ve wanted a Chia Pet since I was a weeeee little kid, and now there’s one that’s topped with fucking RAINBOWS? I’m so in!

…also my dad bought oreos today…came home from a crappy night at work and saw the cookie jar filled with the black and white yumminess. My glee was short lived when I grabbed one and bit in….only to find it’s PEPPERMINT FLAVORED. I hate anything minty, so this was depressing. ;__;

They’ve made Chia Trees forever, but this is the first time I’ve seen one with a star on it.

I’d ask when we could find a new part of the Chia Plot, but I’m sadly resigned to the fact that it’s in XE Limbo with the 2002 Advent Calendar, this year’s Summer Jukebox, and several Halloween Countdowns.

Matt, firstly on the subject of the Advent Calendar and in spite of it slowly taking over your home like some mutant virus, think I speak for a majority here when I say we do appreciate all the effort that you put in each year, as well as the creativity and dedication to it.

As for Chia, I have yet to see an import in any stores here, the nearest we get is usually the ‘growing watercress in cottonwool stuffed in to an empty eggshell that has been decoradted with a face so it gives the effect of hair’. I want pottery that sprouts leaves!

My puppy chia pet is still sitting on the porch with dead chia plants stuck on it from June. I can sympathize with Rev. Back it on Up, because it took me twenty years of sporadically wishing for a Chia before someone finally got me one. Maybe I’ll plant it again and also make a tradition of it. I’m kind of jealous of the tree. Puppy doesn’t have a star core.

I’ve been in the spirit, especially after making Christmas favors with family yesterday while listening to the jukebox. Earlier today I made the mistake of going to one of the area’s major shopping centers, and that killed the spirit for a bit. It’s really frustrating to spend twenty minutes trying to park just to bring a cup of coffee to a friend at work.

Knowing that there is now lumber involved makes me even more excited about the advent calendar. I’m rereading the old calendars right now.

I’ve already started aimlessly driving around town to look at Christmas lights.

Man, wish I had the time away from evil retail to do more Christmassy things. However, at work, I’ve taken to bringing a bunch of candy canes to work to give to kids. They really like it.

The people across from me started doing their lights right after Veteran’s Day. They look eight times as bad as Clark Grizwauld - lights all over the house that blink, fifteen different Santa and reindeer (ten of them on a miniature ferris wheel that really moves), blow-up figures, signs advertising a local radio station, and once we get to December proper, Christmas music blasting. Thankfully, no one else in the neighborhood gets anywhere near that obnoxious (and my apartment is facing the riverside and not the street, so I don’t have to listen to “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” cranked to 11 until Three Kings Day). There’s a few other folks with lights up, but most people will probably put them up next week.

I really appreciate Christmas lights. It’s so much easier to ride home on your bike in the dark in December when almost every house has extra illumination.

I’m also feeling Christmas-y. I have the Jukebox running and am writing holiday stories with a girlfriend. I’ve spent most of this weekend - and will spend the majority of this week - cleaning and decorating for the holidays.

Man, I wish you had mentioned the Amazon affiliate thing this morning, before I ordered those Stargate DVDs from my Dad!

I say, the more decorations, the better! =D Any ya’ll in the mood for Brawlin tonight?

Ultraman: Yes. :) I’ll set up the room and wait for you and anyone else to click in.

Ah, my daily dose of x-e-mas to tide me over until the Advent Calendar starts in earnest. How I enjoy it. Here’s hoping the Christmas Chia Plot is a success.

Methoes: There’s a long explanation behind that one. It’s just a continuation of something Matt did last year. Trust me, you’ll be hearing a lot about it.

Wow, you went all-out there, Matt. Can’t wait for the show to start, and judging by the previews, it looks like it’s gonna be a doozy.

Thanks for pumping out fun filled holiday stuffs matt, especially for those of us who are not weekly readers, it’s nice to check in and find a plethora of goodies to read about. Out of curiosity does this constitute as the SNT? Usually it has it’s own thread if i recall correctly.

Definitely need to find me one of these… Can’t wait for the Advent to start!!!

We alreadt have the tree and lights up. I also got alot of Christmas shopping done yesterday. It was slightly busier than normal at the stores, but nowhere near the tales of hell you hear about on the news. It was actually kind of fun.

Anyway, there was a Charlie Brown double-feature of “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” and “Snoopy, Come Home.” on ABC Family. I only watched “Boy” and I got to say it wasn’t that great. I think they were still trying to get the animated formula down.

One big problem is that Charlie (and to a smaller extent Linus) are such losers (and not of the lovable variety we would all come to love) that you’re surprised they either didn’t kill themselves or go on a massacre.

Also, although Lucy was always kinda of a bully, in this movie she is just a megabitch (along with two other female characters that kinda look familiar, but I have no clue what their names are, and they also aren’t named in the movie) that you want them at least severely hurt, or get SOME kind of comeuppance. But it doesn’t happen.

Damn, dude! Snoopy, Come Home is my favorite of the bunch… That song always gets stuck in my head when I watch it! hahaha

Some sad news, I got my first bottle of Sierra Mist Cranberry Splash, and while I loved it, my girlfriend hated it.

I have “Cool As Ice” playing in the other room, and I just noticed something: the costume designer on that movie is the same person that worked on “Batman Forever” and “Batman and Robin.” Hoo boy. Also, this post is very fitting since I just saw a Chia tree commercial this afternoon.

I told my mom on the phone today that when I get back to NY for Christmas, there better be at least ten boxes of Christmas Crunch waiting for me. Every year I choke down those merry sugar balls and I’m not gonna stop now!

Does anyone here know the Peanuts special where they are in school, talking about teachers and they sing a song that goes “She’s gonna ask me something- on Edgar Allan Poe - I know it I just know it any moment now, she’s gonna call on me and ask me something I don’t know, on Edgar Allan Poe.” YEARS later, I still have that song stuck in my head but I don’t even know what Peanuts show it is from!

All of our tree lights crapped out so, even though the tree went up last night, it didn’t get decorated until about 2 pm today.
This may not sound like much but it was really depressing to see a bare tree. Made it feel like the season was over, etc.

But that’s over now. Got a “sparkling, happy tree” kicking next to me right now. The second born has already broken an ornament though. :(.

I’ll be starting to put up more decorations tomorrow. That Chia pet is real beautiful. This will be my
last SNT for a while. I’ll be heading to Florida
Friday. I’ll be back before Christmas though. So
I’ll be missing at least six days of the Advent
Calendar. Anyway, Matt, I hope your Chia tree grows
up to be real beautiful.

Okay, Chia has one holiday covered. But they need to spread and grow (pun?) into other holidays. Chia Easter Bunny, Chia Shamrock, Chia Graveyards, to name a few… This could be more far reaching and signifigant than PEEPS!

Muppet Baby, it’s Snoopy the Musical, which I guess was an animated version of a stage play they did. I used to have it recorded on VHS and I had forgotten all about it until I heard one of the songs from it on an episode of The Muppet Show.

Happy SNT guys, I’m pooped so can’t say much. Heading back home tomorrow and I’ll probably wait until Monday to put up the Tree, etc…

Happy SNT! Now I need to add THIS to my shopoping list… I’m trying to have the best X-E Mas ever! To addd on to a conversation on the last comment… POKEMON TRAINER AND ASH ARE TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT PEOPLE! Now that my nerdy outrage is done, Matt, I never Brawled you. Everyone keeps talking about how cheap you are. Tomorrow, could I PLEASE Brawl you (away from Wii tonight). I would LOVE to show you a thing or two. Could I please get your friend code? Mine is 0602-7662-3101. Add me tonight and I will add you tomorrow. I don’t have yours yet. Could I PLEASE Brawl you?

I just Brawled Matt, and God, he is cheap. He’s perfected it to an art form. A coinossouir of Spam, if you will.

I haven’t posted in weeks, maybe months, but I’ve been lying in bed all week after sinus surgery, and though I was around for most of the great advent calendars and Macy’s reviews of years past, I watched and read them all again while bathing my brain in mild narcotics. It was otherwise one of the worst weeks of my life, and you really got me through it, Matt. I just sent my wife to Walmart at 11:00 to find me an f-ing Chia Christmas tree.

Matt, Invader Norbert: Awesome Brawlin with ya’ll. My fav one we had tonight was the one where Matt got stuck under that bridge in the Zelda level, JUST as it was reappearing. lol. You can’t tell me that wasn’t funny.

Why does all the Brawlin happen when I’m in Portland, away from my Wii? :(, Matt, could I PLEASE have your Brawl code?

And you would’ve won that last Brawl had Dialga not appeared just as you got the Golden Hammer…

Great affiliate link Matt, but I already own Shock Treatment. XD Guess I’ll just have to use it when I preorder Dr. Horrible on DVD for a friend. YES! DECEMBER 16TH!

We need to unwrap (yes unwrap) our tree soon. It’s in plastic wrap in the middle of our living room.. where it’s been since last year. Dad wants to put up the inflatables but I have no clue when he’s going to have the time, seeing as we now have 17 for our yard.

Invader Norbert : I know. He came out of NOWHERE! And to think I’m a fan of Dialga. =P

Oh Matt, never ever stop doing this you make christmas that much more awesome every year

i saw the chia tree at target yesterday and was entranced. i also spent the last week reading all of the old advent calenders (and pretending to study), so i can’t wait for monday! cursing playmobil dolls have restored my belief in Christmas.

Black Friday shopping finished my Christmas shopping, did the christmas lights today. Sadly, much less then most years. Most years I work with my father, but this year he’s coming off of surgery to remove an infected bone in his foot, and he’s just not able. So my brother and I put up our inflatables, and put up a few strands around the property. I bet the post-Christmas sales will be rather insane to clear channels, so I’ll likely be buying some new ones for next year.

“This year? Good Christ. I’ll say this: To properly set up everything, I had to spend fifty bucks on lumber and lighting at Home Depot.”

I have never had a Chia Pet either Rev. but for some reason it’s more depressing that you have never had one.

We started decorating, too. I might have take it a bit too far with the tinsel garlands, there are about 10 up here. It’s just that I couldn’t find a green one anywhere, so I bought red and silver ones in addition to the others we already had. Then of course I find some green ones.

Our family doesn’t really start decorating until the first weekend of December - the first ‘official’ weekend of Christmas in my eyes.

For the past few years, we’ve had a fibre optic Christmas trees, which hypnotised me for hours. Now suddenly this year, my mother (I live back at home at the moment, long story!) decides she wants a real tree. Which is nice and traditional an’ all, but can it top fibre optic greatness?

For Brits, I could semi-quote Harry Hill - “But which is best, fibre optic or real? There’s only one way to find out. Fiiiiiiight!!”. Everyone else will wonder what the heck I’m on about. I get that alot!

Aaron-
I just assumed the Pokemon kid was Ash since that’s what his name was in the anime show. I’ve never been a fan of the Pokemon series at all,besides maybe a week or so when my friends and I were playing the N64 version.
I guess it was an OK game,but I’m not about to do anything stupid like get a pokemon tattoo.

My family decorated on Thanksgiving after dinner. Its a tradition. I’ve never owned a Chia Pet. And what is the Brawl that so many of you speak of?

BobbyA It’s the game Smash Brothers Brawl for the Wii. Some regulars (including Matt) go on their Wii and play against each other.

Didn’t know they made a Chia Christmas tree! And, one day until the Advent calendar is up!

I’ve never had or wanted a Chia anything, but that tree looks eight kinds of awesome.

My battle with outside lights has been ugly this year. Ah well, at least the Advent is back on X-E and Garfield’s Christmas special is finally back on tv this year. ABC Family on Dec. 9 at 7PM EST. in case it hasn’t been mentioned yet. Set your DVRS/VCRS.

BobbyA: I’m still playing through Ninja Gaiden 2 and making another run through the first Gears. How sad is that? I need to up my 360 game count. The lady has been a Viva Pinata 2 slave lately, so I haven’t bothered.

i just listened to “santa claus is coming to town”,and i have one thing to say: I WANT A FUDGESICLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Just got home after a brief visit to see the parents. Talked Dad into going for a jog and he tripped and broke his arm. Wonderful. Can’t wait to see what I curse them with for Christmas.

I’ve been trying to track down spray on snow for 13 days. Thirteen freakin days! In Australia (the land, not the movie) there are no such things as Christmas stores, snow or close-toed footwear. Are they as common in the US as one fantasizes after watching Jingle All the Way and Silent Night, Deadly Night?

Well I did some more decorating today. Iv’e almost got every decoration I have up. YAY for Christmas! =D

Ubik-
Everything you need to know about our American culure can be learned from the films Jingle All The Way and Silent Night,Deadly Night.

BobbyA-
This is probably the only website on the internet besides Nintendo.com where the Wii is more popular than 360. That said,there are a couple regulars on here that play on Xbox Live,allthough I have no idea what games.
Well that one guy is a little nuts about Streets of Rage 2. lol.

Psh…..PSI magnet and I get my health back….Pikachu’s nothing but a health factory for me. XD As soon as I sort out stuff, you can bet I’mma try to meetcha for one Brawl, esp, you Aaron. Cuz my beloved PT, AKA Red, needs his lil trainer legs stretched and the CPU just ain’t cutting it anymore.

Chia pet tree….that reminds me, I should try to keep my chia pet widget alive for more than a week. Yes, I’m so sad, I have a chia pet widget, rather than a real one. T_T

wondering what happened to my comment last night….I got a Neti Pot the other night on Friday, and I don’t know if I like t or not. It sorta feels good after you are done rinsing, but hurts like hell going in your nise and out the other nostril.

I hope you’re all getting into the spirit, and if you’re not, I’m going to beat you over the head with it for the next month. Over and over again. You’re really going to hate me when all’s said and done.

Mandy, I don’t have a Neti Pot, but I’ve done the whole nasal irrigation thing with less sophisticated tools, and if you’ve the saline rinse balanced and at the right temperature, it really shouldn’t hurt much.

Kid Nicky: Actually I’ve seen a lot of sites where the Wii is the most popular system. Every system has it’s loyal fanbase. And yeah i’d have to agree about those movies pretty much summing up American culture. lol. I wouldn’t say they tell EVERYTHING there’s to know about America, but most of it , yeah.

Back from the Southlands and visiting my family where my husband and I helped put up our third Christmas tree in a week. We’ve put two up at our home, and I’ll probably do tree #3 for us tomororow.

My parents put up — every year — a fifteen-footer, I’m not kidding. It’s awe-inspiring to see something like that inside a house. I love it.

Hope everyone had a good holiday. Another short week for me next week, so more time for shopping and decorating.

Oh man!!! Bring on the Calendar. The holiday season is officially here. This is the best site in the history of the planet!

ubik- Although Christmas stores are common, Ahnold Schwarzenegger yelling about cookies are unfortunately hard to come by. So as a subsitute-

WOO! Got back from Portland, OR. Just used my Fizz n Find also. I now have a new Santa ornament!

Hooooray December! Advent will be posted tonight, but late tonight. We had a family engagement most of today, so I’m playing catch up. It’s looong.

I’ve seen that part many years ago, Hazard. Excellent. I’ve been thinking if Storm Shadow’s comics inspired “Ghost With The Most.”

it’s already late by my standards. but i’m no insomniac. just a girl who wants an advent entry. if i wake up in the middle of the night, i’ll come check back.

ummmm….i bought an advent calendar so i can play along. i am so effing excited i think i just peed a little

I’m now home again. Got the Tree out and did a little decorating. More tomorrow.

I have never seen a more beautiful chia pet in all my life. Thank you for sharing this November 29th miracle with us Matt!

Saw the Nutcracker last night for the first time ever. I really dug, but have a feeling I would have enjoyed it even more if I had seen it as a kid.

Okay, two minutes, til December first. Thanks Hazzard, for the chia GI Joe calendar!

Matt, will Waiterbot be making vlogs this year? And if so, will he be talking about the secularization of Christmas? His first name is Einstein. It was so
funny when I first heard it. I saw Cheech and Chong’s
roast. Chong’s wife still looks hot after all these
years. C. Thomas Howell used to be Chong’s son-in-
law. Wolverines!

GUYS! WE’RE ONE STEP CLOSER TO FINDING OUT BOX 23! I was in Target, and saw a playmobil advent calander. The theme? PIRATES!

Oh, and Knacks was recently listening to Shock Treatment CD, and Matt linked us to the amazon page of Shock Treatment… hm…

Who is still up waiting for the first Advent entry? I think I’ll give it till 3:00 AM!

Aaron, I saw the pirate calendar at Target too, so I bought a two pack of pirate figurines. Plus, one of the pirates was on the calendar last year. I’m giving the other to my bf so we can have pirate battles. Yarrrrr. Playmobil does have other calendars out though.

TresjolieI have crappy sleeping habits so normally I’m up around this time anyway. For once I was tired early, but the advent calendar won.

YAY!!! First Advent Calendar entry is up! I won’t spoil anything though, for anybody that hasn’t read it.

Oh my god YES ADVENT. Getting up at 5:30 after a 5-day weekend just got a lot less painful. Thanks, Matt.

Your advent calendar grows up every year, so you need a computer advent calendar.:-) Take ours, it’s free and contains beautiful winter images for every day:

It’s December now. *boggle* Seems like it was Fall for maybe two seconds. Wasn’t Halloween yesterday or something?

Does anyone remember the TV special from the 80’s called A Disney Christmas Gift? It was the same type of show as Disney’s Halloween Treat… a narrated montage of holiday themed scenes from Disney films. I taped both on VHS and watched them a hundred times and wore them out!

I can’t believe it’s finally here (okay, I get excited easily) - I think this is gonna be a classic year for Mare and co.

Also I’d like to take this opportunity to say that every time I look at the picture of the Chia tree, it looks more and more like it’s made out of meat. Must be the lighting. Or maybe it’s all the sleep I didn’t get last night. Yeah.

Awww, giant crabs destroyed the mansion? Suck! It was one of my favorite things from last year! Hope they get it back.

I had a NASTY migraine all day yesterday, and dottie peed on the sofa bed, so I had to take a nap on the floor. I sleep for a bit and wake up really groggy, and then I smiled and mumbled to hubby….”Advent calenders tomorrow!” then I fell back asleep.

Yes, plenty of James Lipton this year. Glad to finally know the significance of the coconut crabs, and all the circus clues.

OMG it’s finally here. I love the new circus hideout,allthough I shudder to think how much money Matt spends on this stuff.

Are these giant crabs the same giant crabs that ACTUALLY lived in actual historical Japan? Click my name for (wait for it) MASSIVE DAMAGE!!!

Jesus, I started reading the first entry, and as soon as I saw the new secret hideout, my pants exploded.

Now I have to clean it up and won’t be able to read the rest of the first entry until I’m done.

Also, for some strange reason, I missed the whole box 23 thing, even though I’ve read every Calendar so far. I don’t know how I missed it last year, but I did. I’ve tried to follow along with the various pages and blog entries trying to explain, but I’m kind of lost. Could someone summarize for us less enlightened mortals?

Despite my best efforts, I failed to catch up completely on the advent calendars of yore. Now I can’t read this one, because I will be lost in history. And by the time I catch up, there will be many an advent calendar gift box opened.

Did we actually see the mansion get destroyed, or was that part of the box 23 mystery?

Rev, just read the calendar, and sit back and enjoy. You can always catch up someday on the previous calendars. Try reading them while awaiting a midnight update.

We never saw the house being taken over by the coconut crabs, we have just heard about it.

I wasn’t sure if i’d be able to follow this complex storyline without having finished my research. Coconut crabs? Box 23?

You all should have come to my house for Thanksgiving dinner. My husband threatened to gut a guy like a fish. That probably doesn’t happen at most other Thanksgiving celebrations.

And you can ignore all the box 23 stuff and still enjoy the story…I did that for the most part last year…

Rev. Read the comic anyway, you goof! Don’t miss out! It’s exciting as hell regardless of whenever you read them.

I go back and re-read them all the time and it’s still just as funny and amazing.

I can’t imagine what someone did that made your husband freak out like that. Did they make out with you or something? I bet it was so worth it.

Sorry for the double post, but did anyone else notice the clown obscured by the Circus sign in the wide shot?

It was my cousin’s boyfriend, and he chased my weiner dog with a rolling chair. My weiner dog brings all her equipment on the bus, and you can not fuck with my weiner dog.

I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna dive into the advent calendar and throw all my fears to the wind.

What I’m really blown away by, more than anything else so far, is that X-E Matt had that little tiny sushi set with the sake bottles.

That is hardcore. You will find a lot of odd relics if you search my home - a one eyed bust of Elvis, a box of unused butt plugs for human cadavers, chocolate molds shaped like hedgehogs, swords, kung fu training dummy, etc. - but nowhere will you find anything comparable to a teeny tiny sushi dinner.

The one good thing today… Advent Calender. No great Christmas spirit here. Decorated the office here at work, but that was more out of having nothing else to do then wanting to be in the holiday mood. I honestly think it will take nothing short of a miracle to make me get that holiday spirit back, but we’ll see. Also I have never in my life wanted a Chia Pet. Now I do. I honestly would love to get the chia tree as a gift, maybe I’ll ask Santa for it.

Rev. I think you are smart enough to figure out what is going on. I think his stories are like soap operas in a way because they explain things from previous stories while the plot is being added onto. This is your first advent calendar you are reading in real time! Yay! I would think a woman that has a wiener dog for a pet would have a mini sushi platter and sake bottles. Those would go hand in hand I think.

And yes I wish I was at your house on Thanksgiving. But I bet I would of just been very nervous and stared a lot. And not ate as much as I wanted to be polite. And then felt like shit after wards about it. But wouldn’t of regretted going.

Well Goob, I can’t speak for the entire Italian race but I think it is a safe bet that you would not get out of our big Italian Thanksgiving without eating until you were way beyond full.

If I had been at Rev’s house for Thanksgiving, I would have eaten all of the 17 million stuffed mushrooms she was forced into slavery to create. I likey me some stuffed shrooms!

I saw my first Clapper commercial today, which was surprising seeing as they’re steadily going extinct on extended basic cable and satellite. I haven’t seen any Cha-cha-cha-chia commercials yet, though.
Even better than Clapper and Chia? BILLY MAYS for Clapper and Chia.

Favorite Billy Mays Moment! Watching him demonstrate the cleaning power of oranges by squatting in a filthy bathtub. The pinnacle of the history of television was seeing him heave himself out of that tub.

My stuffed mushrooms were stuffed with Love. Love was physically bursting out of them. You had to eat them with a knife and fork, because the love was so abundant it would get all over your hands and shirt if you tried to eat them with your hands. My Love is not a Finger Food.

How could my Holiday possibly be complete without having my face, hands, and clothes completely saturated in Rev’s love? I really missed out this Thanksgiving.

Geez, Kid Nicky, don’t mention Streets of Rage 2. I thought we’d never hear the end of that.

Rev., I live in the south and I’d bet there are more threats to gut people like fish at Thanksgiving than you think.

I feel that it is only fair to warn you, I’ve got an army of clones being built as we speak. They will help me take you down.

Is this entry even still on the page? It’s just the two of us in here, Teddy Ray. I don’t think X-E Matt is even paying attention. Wanna do impressions of him?

“WAITERBOT: You see? I am a street peformer! I am armed with a small stage to stand upon so I can perform in clear view of my audience, and a pair of colorful, handheld discs with which to punctuate the allusions brought forth by my interpretive dance.

WAITERBOT: All I need is oral herpes and a bucket for donations, and I’m set.”
Is one of my favorite exchanges so far.

I didn’t hold out all this time to get kicked from the coveted LAST position like that.

Do the comments ever get closed on these older posts? If they close and I’m not last, I’m going to go on a rampage and tear up Manhattan.

I don’t think they do, but if they do…prepare for a rampage! CUZ I’M GETTIN DAT FO SHO!!! LIZZZASSSSTUH!!!

I know, right? LOL. We’ll just have our own little private convo over here. If you don’t forget about me.

How could I ever forget you. The fate of the Chia Christmas tree thread is in our hands, dude.

Ever since Teddy Ray bailed on this thread, there has been an empty place in my heart.

You shouldn’t take it that way. Life is not a series of holes to be filled by a parade of passing strangers. Each new participant brings something new and exciting to the table. Life is more like a parade of interesting statues, in unique and varying poses, lined up along the Boardwalk of Experience, each waiting to be sat upon or squatted over in a new and thrilling way.

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