It's Nice to Be Nice

What little faith I had in humanity has been temporarily restored.  Not a single person liked my Ebenezer Scrooge take on Christmas.  The responses I did get all basically told me to get a life and stop being such a buzzkill (I'm paraphrasing most people were as cruel in there assessment as I was in my self centered, little diatribe).  I was pretty down all day.  My parents told me I was entering my fiftieth year today (my "Drown" publicity bio says I'm 36).   Turns out I'm only 48 and my parents don't even know how old I am.  Must have been a real memorable day.

Those of you who have birthdays around the holidays know it is a total screw job.  Those of you who give the "joint" birthday and Christmas gift and lie about spending double know exactly what I am talking about.  As the economy continues to go in the tank and I get older gifts become less important.  So now I get the "joint" nothing as my birthday/Christmas gift.  As the LOL (lovely old lady) pointed out if a guy owns fifty pairs of shoes and has four wetsuits (included a "heated" model) he really doesn't need anything.  For my birthday she agreed to be "nice".  Honestly, her actually being nice is  kind of creepy and making me really nervous.  Then again I left yesterday, worked and surfed today and have been home for less than a half hour.  I give her an hour tops.  Kindness doesn't really become her.

Here is my "joint" birthday/Christmas wish list:

1.  I wish the Kardashian private jet would get lost in the Bermuda triangle with the whole clan aboard.  I think those sisters would feel at home there.  Also I wouldn't have to see their ugly mugs everywhere much less hear their opinion.

2.  I wish Mitt Romney would accept the fact that nobody likes him.  He's been trying for eight years to convince people otherwise yet voters were more comfortable with a pizza delivery guy before he turned out to be a sex addict.  Now they'd rather have a nut case who cheated on his wife who was dying of cancer and took $1.6 million for advising an agency that is largely responsible for the housing crisis.

3.  I wish head high and clean waves all day everyday for my surfing brothers.

Finally as amends to the Faithful the link below is a gift certificate for a free kindle copy of "Drown".  The first person to use it gets it but don't worry I promise their will be more.  One of you cheapskates can even give it as a free "joint" birthday Christmas gift.

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