Well, yesterday was a 10 hour shift, but not so bad, overall.
ANNNDDDDD…..guess who came into the store?
Kevin Smith. No joke. I didn’t actually talk to him, but my manager checked him out…and painfully didn’t realize who it was until AFTER he had left. He was a little devastated.
Today I made cupcakes to bring to my compatriots who DID have to work today (ouch) and am shortly off to the shower to get ready to go to Burgandy’s Xmas party. Yay? Well…I AM going to wear a pretty dress…so I think I’ll put that in the ‘yay’ category.
Tomorrow will be rife with familial obligation…I guess Briggs’ parents and sister have been fighting over who’s house Briggs and I go to. The thing is, his parents also have his step-mom’s sister and her husband coming over, and they are…well…we’d rather go to Burgandy’s.
Last night I made Briggs watch Silent Night Deadly Night with me.
It was at least as dreadful as you imagine.
However, despite the abysmal acting, horrid writing and German subtitles, I rather liked the underlying idea — a young boy is scared by his senile grandfather into believing that Santa horribly punishes children that haven’t been 100 percent good all year. Later that night, his parents are horribly murdered by a man dressed as Santa. He is then put in an orphanage, where, despite the fact that he obviously has Christmas related issues and tends to get rather upset that time of year, the Mother Superior insists that he is fine, and was too young to remember anything about his parents’ murder. She chooses to ignore the clear signs of psychological trauma and treat his acting out wit some good, old-fashioned Christian corporal punishment.
Years later, he is leading a relatively normal life, but when forced to confront negative Christmas-related mental stimuli from his past, and then imbibes alcohol and is confronted with something that equals ‘naughty’ in his mind, he has a psychotic break and goes on a murderous rampage.
It could have been better written, but I think that the underlying psychological basis for the plot might hold up.
Merry Christmas, everyone!!!!!
