Another Late Christmas Gift

January 25, 2024 ~ Jim Flanigan

Yeah, we had 20+ over to our house for Christmas Eve. The house looked quite festive for our guests, nicely decorated thanks to my wife. Except for this alleged Christmas Cactus that is finally in full bloom in late January.

We had no control over this lazy ass plant that is running a month late.

Beautiful? Yes. Christmas cactus? Pffft, no. Whatever happened to truth in advertising? I suspect this means I’ll be writing another letter to the Federal Trade Commission.

I hope I kept the receipt.

And yes, that’s a lot of snow outside in the pic.

Do I Have a Drinking Problem?

December 26, 2020 ~ Jim Flanigan

Here we are halfway through my Twelve Days of Blogging. I’ll let you do the math to figure out how many days that is. I hope you received the gifts you wanted or at least gift receipts along with the crappy ones.

I received this thoughtful gift from my oldest daughter. Now I can go around smelling like I’m stinking drunk even when I’m not.

Examine those soaps a bit closer and you will see this …

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Christmas Wrap-up

December 26, 2019 ~ Jim Flanigan

Now that Christmas is over, I don’t want to do any more wrapping for a while except to wrap-up a few holiday loose ends. And if you somehow make it to the end of this post, I have a very special gift for you there.

Yes, a gift just for you (and the tens of other readers of this blog). WARNING: Gift receipt not included. Don’t waste your time looking for it.

First, the mystery of the mini wine gift basket coming my way has been solved. It wasn’t tiny bottles of wine after all. It was this in the 2 lb. box …

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A Small Gift at Christmas – Literally

December 24, 2019December 24, 2019 ~ Jim Flanigan ~ 1 Comment

Do you know any of those people that give valuable gifts at Christmas and then say, “It’s nothing really, just a small gift to show my appreciation?” If you do, can you introduce me? Anyway, I thought I was one of those people getting a valuable gift today. I got this UPS notification yesterday …

How festive looking, and classy. Wine country, huh? Our extended family comes over to our house Christmas Eve, so this basket of wine may be coming just in time for me to get my booze on before they descend upon our humble abode.

But then I tracked the shipment and saw this …

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