No Burn Day

Like the previous holidays the past few years, Phoenix has opted to enforce a "No Burn Day" This year. Can I just say this is a joke, we should be able to sit around a fire pit or fireplace and enjoy our Holiday with friends and family. I don't see a reduction in city vehicles being driven, so why is it that a fireplace burning is any worse? With the reduction of travel on christmas alone, this should counter act any "burning" that would take place. Sending out inspectors to catch anyone burning seems like a waste of city funds, having them drive block after block seems like a unnecessary way to pollute the air. This needs to stop.

Fireplaces and Fire pits are ways for families to bound, they are ways to enhance the holiday spirit, and are ways to make each holiday special for children. I know personally growing up, my brother and i would hang around the fireplace while playing with our new gifts enjoying the warmth of the flames on a cold December day. Our Fire pit was used by our parents and grandparents to converse on the events of the morning. These were staples of our family and many more which have now been taken away.

I want our ability to enjoy a fireplace in December back, we need this now more than ever.

Until my next post, enjoy this Holiday Season with your love ones

My Christmas Message To Your Employer

It's almost Christmas and the important questions need to be asked......Why do we work the two weeks of Christmas and New Years? Most companies experience a slow down between these two holidays, mainly due to the low attendance of employees. With less people there is less work to be completed, when there is less work to be completed then the people who do work end up screwing off in the office. We all know this to be true, we either experience or have participated in this practice. We don't care about what is going on at work, we are thinking about the Christmas shopping, cooking for our families, the gifts we are getting, and at what point on New Years Eve we will drunkenly try to kiss that hot chick we have had your eye on since last year. We are not thinking about TPS reports, Income Analysis, or Home loans. We are strategically planning where we are placing that miso toe for the best positive outcome.

So this is my holiday message to our employers.......Stop with the insanity, stop pretending that we are accomplishing anything these two weeks, stop with the two hour releases on Christmas Eve. WE DON'T CARE. We want to be home, enjoying some Bing Crosby and Eggnog. Stop being the Grinch trying to steal christmas and let that heart of yours grow two sizes and give us two weeks off. Its for your best interest as much as ours.


Until My Next Post Merry Christmas.

We Need Christmas

What do we all need more than anything this time of year? Christmas, we need Jolly ole Saint Nick. We need Christmas because sometimes personally life sucks, sometimes bad things happened to friend and family, and sometimes bad things happen in the world. We need the happiness that Christmas brings, lets for get the religious undertones for this holiday and concentrate on what makes this time of year so special.

Christmas has some magic to it, whether its the unwavering faith of a child or the softening of the hardest heart. There is something about this time of year, we as a society need to embrace this. We need to make sure that we continue to make this time of years so special for children, let them see the magic when driving down the street.

I remember seeing christmas lights on every house with the occasional one not decorating. Now its the opposite, we see very few houses decorated and business shy away. We need this to change, I want to see houses decorated, I want o see commercials on TV with Santa, and I want the ability to walk in a Winter Wonderland.

Until My Next Post, Make Sure To Hang Up Some Christmas Lights And Enjoy Some Christmas Music.