The Holiday Road Trip

As I packed up my birds’ food and treats last night, I began to dread the three (at least) hour drive are making today. I know choosing to move away makes holiday travel a necessary evil, but I’m still not a fan. Every year at Thanksgiving and Christmas there seems to be a lot of attention on focused on how to survive air travel. Yes I agree that the idea of being in an airport near the holiday season is a mess. Yes I would want tips on how to survive the madness that holiday air travel has become. I actually purposely planned my vacation so it happens in the usual lull between Thanksgiving and when the kids are let out of school for Christmas to avoid the crowds and the high airfares. However, I think the road warriors get a bit shafted. Yes we look at the gas prices and the increased number of accidents, but no one really gives us the time of day.

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I recently bought a pair of household gloves–you know, those neon yellow rubber ones for dishwashing. Imagine my surprise when instead of yellow, the gloves were neon pink and a card illustrating how to check myself for breast cancer came sliding out of the box.

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As we approach Thanksgiving I am reminded that this really is the most wonderful time of the year.  The weather is turning colder, NFL football and college football are in full swing and of course you have the trifecta of big holidays all in a condensed time, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s.  So this is what it must feel like to be Jewish, holidays all the time.

However, the holidays can bring out a lot of bad in people too, which leads me today’s blog.  There is a rule, this rule is iron clad, it can not be amended and it must not be violated.  The rule reads as follows:  “The overall celebration and general observance of the holiday of Christmas shall not begin until the first Friday following the day of Thanksgiving. No houses shall be decorated; no trees are to be put up.  It is also not permissible for radio stations to be playing 24 hours of Christmas music until the said Friday.”

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I’m worried about my hometown. I’m from a town just out of Toledo, OH. Toledo is very close to Detroit…and of course, Detroit is home to the auto industry. The nation is already in fiscal trouble, but if the auto industry goes runs out of money the already sad job market in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan is going to quickly spiral out of control.

I worry about my friends who spent years using their parents’ connections to get into Chrysler. They have high paying jobs with amazing benefits. However, if the Toledo plant closes, they are out of luck. Some of them either didn’t go to college or didn’t complete college. Others have been working hard at the plant to secure their tuition reimbursement plans. I worry about their parents. They are either nearing retirement or recently retired. Now they run the risk of losing their pension plans. It is scary times for an area that is already seeing economic strain.

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Last year I wrote about how it’s not easy being green and, while it was an inspired piece of writing, as most of my blogs are, this year I am going to approach the whole “Green is Universal” week on NBC differently then I did last year.  While last year I sounded more like a cynic, this year I may sound more like an alarmist.

Now, I still question the notion that global warming is man made and I still doubt that earth is in as much peril as some have made it out to be.  I am however concerned about the intelligent use of energy and the effect that using such a heavy amount of carbon based energy does to our environment.

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My son is a fifth grader who covers his eyes and blushes any time we walk through the bra department at a store. He also shies away from his father anytime my husband tries to have “the talk” with him.

He’s a sharp contrast from my daughter who, when she was four, asked me where babies came from after watching a Rugrats episode on Nickelodeon. In it, Angelica asked her parents the same question and the adults panicked and stammered and rushed into the kitchen to “help each other with the beets.” I think the reason why my daughter asked about babies wasn’t out of genuine curiosity, but to see how I’d react. I calmly told her about how mommies have tiny eggs, not big eggs like chickens, and daddy’s have something called sperm, and when those two things get together, it makes a baby which grows inside the mommy. I didn’t get into how those two things get together. I figured we’d save that for another time when she’s older.

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