How I felt after getting stuck working outside in the cold rain last Friday night…

Here at The Nest, we like to share our world on days that begin with the letter T.  Sometimes it’s Tuesday, sometimes its Thursday, and occasionally it might be the Twelfth of Never.  Let’s see what Melanie’s questions for the first week of December have in store for us, and roll with the newest and improvedest SYW logo that looks like the cover of an 80’s new wave album…

Now I feel like queuing up Duran Duran’s “Planet Earth“…

What’s your remedy for the Holiday blues?

I don’t get involved with the holiday like most other people allow themselves to do, so this isn’t an issue for me.  And even though December is usually the most stressful time in Retail Hell, it can also be rather amusing and entertaining if you look for the humorous things in life.  And looking for the queer and absurd things in life can be the cure for any blues that ail you…

If there isn’t enough queer and absurd in your life… get yourself some Shelf critters.

Your favorite beverage (if it differs) during the holiday season?  If it doesn’t differ, just answer the ‘what’s your favorite beverage” part.

Unless it’s a hot/cold thing (Like how sno cones taste so much better on 100 degree summer days than they do on 0 degree winter days), beverages should not be limited to certain seasons.  If something is good, why should it be limited by a calendar?  My 24/7/365.25 is cola.  Perfect for any occasion, and nobody has ever been busted for driving under the influence of Pepsi…

I’d like you to belch into this Breathalyzer, sir…

This one has been asked before, but what’s your take on pumpkin spice?

I don’t even know what it is, nor do I care.  The only thing pumpkins are good for is for carving cool things into their shells…

Unless you are a squirrel, then anything is edible…

Is there is a person or god connected with your holiday? 

My holiday?  Funny how when the pushback against Christmas started about 30 years ago, it became the “cool thing” for everyone to have their own special and unique December celebration whose traditions were largely copied off the holiday they were designed to rival.  I don’t get the whole need for what I always call the “mandatory December reciprocal gifting” holiday anyway.  Like I said above, I don’t participate in any of it.

And all the better for me to mock the hell out of it…

Share a song that you enjoy during this Winter season

This will be difficult to do without stealing the thunder for tomorrow’s Advent calendar entry.  Not being holiday inclined combined with being inundated by this crap at work every year… I tend to despise Christmas music as a whole.  But there are a few enjoyable songs I like, and here’s one that really grew on me because it was a staple of Decembers past at Mecca in the early part of the millennium… and they NEVER play anymore.