Holiday Irritations - You Wont Want to Miss This

Disclaimer - these are the personal thoughts and opinions of Rachelle so please keep that in mind and don't take offense to any comment that may be written within these paragraphs. After writing this I have realized that I have released a lot of negative energy. So some comments may appear to be rude, inconsiderate, or down right MEAN!

Let me start by saying I don't hate Christmas. I DO hate everything that the wonderful Christmas season brings with it though. Hmmmm, where to start... For some reason the entire population of Utah county seems to quadruple in size from the day after Thanksgiving until the end of the year. This is irritating. It takes 4 times as long to get from point A to point B during this 6 weeks. And if it begins to snow ever so slightly you can count on your travel times taking even longer.

Next, at the thought of even entering Walmart, my blood starts to boil. For instance let me back this up by an experience I had this week at Walmart. Cody and I needed to grab a few items quickly. Quickly being the key word here. We spotted a 20 items or less line with just one person in line, and as we approached the line that person stepped up to the register....could our luck really have been this good we asked ourselves?! No, of course not. First off, the man at the register pulled out a credit card, fake credit card, phone/visa card, or something unheard of ever to this Walmart employee(he wasn't even buying anything so why the crap was he in a checkout line???). Now I said to myself, self, if you were in a line to checkout you should be checking out...if you had a question, it would make sense to take myself over to customer service. Genius...this is the reason I make a lot of money in life... So of course the nice cash register tinkers around the register doing who knows what for about 5 minutes, and then takes the guy over to customer service proceeding to hold is hand through whatever the hell he was trying to do. Meanwhile, Cody and I move to the other 20 items or less line where about 3 more people have now stepped in line. The only plus about this line is that it is actually moving. So then this 80 year lady and her husband are now in front of us. I happen to notice at this point they have about 45 items in their cart. Blood boiling? You know it, however I tried to maintain some kind of composure (this was nearly impossible). Then this woman has the nerve to turn to me and say (in her old, decrepid voice)..... ha, ha, ha, you know since there are 2 of us we get to have 20 items each!! ha, ha, ha.....I wont lie, I wanted to punch her square in the face, and watch her dentures explode into a thousand pieces. Meanwhile our prior register's cashier is still not back. So we wait more. Cody and I are fuming mad (which is an understatement). Finally, this old lady's husband buys 42 of their items, and for some unknown reason he leaves 3 items for his old hag wife to buy!!!! Yes, they are really going to cause us to wait longer. About this time the other cashier returns and begins helping the others in her line (that could have been us had we not moved to the what we thought would be "quicker" line). So the old hag pulls out her debit card, and swipes it the wrong way for the 3rd time. Finally Cody rudely says, "Turn your card the other way". Finally, finally they old hag and her husband are done, they are leaving! I couldn't have been more happy. Cody and I buy our 3 items in record time...about 30 seconds. And of course on the way out the old hag and husband, are walking as slow as they possibly can, we try not to run them over (though I really wanted to). Finally our quick trip to Walmart was over! Something that should have lasted 5 minutes took 20. For this I blame the holidays, and Walmart for not having enough cashiers. PS if your planning on leaving me a comment about how one day I will be old and completely obnoxious save yourself the trouble and don't. I have 60 years to come up with a plan on how to not act like that.

Next on the list is the 6 game losing streak for the Jazz, this completely disgusts me. I am not sure what this has to do with the holidays but I will blame them for the Jazz losing. They must be too excited to play and can't sleep at night because they are wondering what PHAT gift Santa is going to bring them. I guess I would play like crap too if I were in that situation. First off the jazz need to sack Jason Hart, he is worthless, hell I would be a better point guard on the floor than him. We better start winning and soon.

New Years Resolutions. People think they cant make a goal in March, July, or September, because if they did they wouldn't have a new years resolution. And for most people it is going to be to lose weight or get healthy. Well here's an idea start now! You will have a 2 and a half week start on everyone else. And better yet you will have hopefully given up by January 1st so the gyms wont be as crowded. That sounds harsh but lets keep it real. For the rest of the world that will start on January 1st I predict they will give up about January 23. So by the beginning of February there will start to be available treadmills... I predict. Just so everyone knows I have been one of those people who has the goal to lose weight and I have also been one of those who gives up after 2 weeks. It happens to a lot of people. But if this year is the year for you, then good luck, I wish you the best.