Hard Candy Christmas

 Hello Monday.  I'm scheduled for 6 hours today.  My morning is free.  That's fine with me.

My drywall contractor will be finishing up the kitchen ceiling this morning.  That also is fine with me.  I can not wait to put things back where they belong and begin to clean.  Dust is everywhere.  It will get a little worse before it gets better.

We did have rain yesterday, not buckets worth, but on and off showers, and misty drizzles.  The temps stayed in the low 50s (F).  I don't know about other people, but I'm glad the cold temps have decided to postpone their arrival.  Anything helping to keep my heating bills down is a plus.

Not surprising, now that Black Friday has come and gone, Christmas music has arrived in the store.  Shit.  I'm so glad I'm part time and will only have to listen to these songs for a limited time only.  The only thing making them interesting is how some of these songs are not about Christmas at all.  'We Need a Little Christmas,' from Mame is a good example.  Broke and down on her luck, Mame uses this song to cheer up her nephew and friends.  But, I have to admit the song I laugh at the most is 'Hard Candy Christmas.'  I saw this song performed live when I went to see 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.'  It's sung by the prostitutes lamenting that the house has been shutdown and they'll need to go somewhere else to find work.  Here's a decent version of it, and no, Dolly Parton did not write this.

And, hey!  What about those protests in China?  They are not what their authoritarian government wants at all.  Boebert, at least I think it was her since she is stupid enough, Tweeted out some sort of nonsense about the Chinese people and 2 amendment rights.  I'm not even going to try and make a connection.  Let's just say the Xi, and his regime, have a problem and if he sends in the military, it's going to get worse.

Isn't it funny how everybody, except the Republican congress, is calling out Trump for his fascist dinner with an Kanye West and Fuentes?  Trump has been pirouetting in his liar toe shoes from one absurd excuse to another.  And he's being called out by everybody but Republican congressmen.  This is actually pretty damn funny.  Conservatives have never really given much credence to what Americans want, their wants have always been foremost.  They latch onto anything they believe will get them votes:  anti-vaxxers, 2nd amendment, pro-life, but most importantly, Donald Trump.  As long as he could get people to vote for him, they didn't give a shit about how evil he was, and now, to the glee of many, it looks like they might be heading into a Hard Candy Christmas.