All About Bentley

Christmas was barely over for 12 hours and our house was free of any sign of it. By 1:00pm today I had all the outside lights and decorations down and packed away, and my wife had done the same in the house. Back to the real world I guess.

There have been few times in my life where I have felt totally relexed, completely calm inside, no worries, totally at ease. Typically there is always something looming in the future; a book report or project when I was younger, and now that I'm older, just everyday responsibilities. But there was one day that I can remember being so at ease, so relaxed, that it was almost euphoric. I was probably around 10, I dont rememeber exactly...I was old enough to walk home from school by myself but young enough to still like Merry Melodies cartoons. It was the last day of school before Christmas break. I had walked home at the end of the day, turned on the TV to some cartoons, just layed down on the couch, and had the sense of 100% complete relaxation come over me. No school for a few weeks, too young to have much responsibility, Christmas would be in a few days, everything was right with my world. I could use a few more of those days every now and then.

Ok you're all a bunch of Scrooges. You're ruining Christmas for me, you know that? Thanks for nothing! I just came back from my family tradition of driving around looking at Christmas lights on houses. I'd say that less than 1% of people had lights up. Is it too much to ask to have a little Christmas Spirit? Yes not everyone in the world is a Christian and not everyone celebrates Christmas...but I live in the bible belt, so the percentage of christians here is pretty high. So whats your problem? Just too lazy or you're just a big fat Scrooge? Merry freakin' Christmas.