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There seems to be some great confusion about some things in life, and I'd like to take few moments to clear just a few of them up. Now, I know that several of these will come to a shock for many but it will be okay and we'll work through it together. And by the end, I hope you'll leave more comfortable with some true facts and your life won't be effected too bad from them. Let's dive right in.

This first one is a current topic and very important; Christmas doesn't sneak up on us. What?! I know, it's so incredible hard to believe that one. I'll give you a minute to let that sink in...... okay. So while I know this is a surprise to some of you I'll help you through it. Here's how you know when Christmas is coming:

• The first recorded date for Christmas was around 336 AD - AD!! It's now 2015 so for a REALLY long time it's been happening and so far, it's always been on December 25 for all of us. I can't make any promises for that date for next year though, so stay alert.
• Thanksgiving happens, and by Thanksgiving, I really mean Christmas is shoved in your face. Stores, radios, your families or friends, they all start putting it out there. Let's not forget the all faithful Black Friday that gives you that first really loud warning that Christmas is coming. It's kind of the Code Red for the holiday season. 
• And for many, it's cold. When it gets cold you can be sure Christmas is getting closer. 
• Lights
• Trees
• Music
• Christmas cards in the mail..... 

There really are some very great indications that Christmas is coming so when you tell someone you aren't ready, you can't afford to hang out "right before" Christmas, or that you can't afford to purchase absolutely ANYTHING, your reasons almost become invalid. Now let me also throw a disclaimer out there for all my Devil's Advocates, I know, eeeeeveryone has different circumstances that happen for them, and I am absolutely NO stranger to the struggle, but one must learn to plan and to live within means. Also, if you can spend money all year on recreational fun i.e. things I won't mention, you too can plan ahead for Christmas.

Okay next, one of my favorite sayings is, "I, myself, am entirely made of flaws, stitched together with good intentions." I have never, and don't ever want to tell anyone nor even think that I am better than anyone else. I am the furthest thing from being perfect, that the only thing I've perfected is being flawed. So when someone says to me things like, 

you're always so right 

or 

you're better than me

 or 

oh you're so perfect

 or 

you're better than everyone else; 

all sarcastically of course, it puts the greatest look of confusion on my face. Let me reiterate, I ... am ... the-most-imperfect-person-ever! My faults are so great that people still like to gossip about things I've done wrong 15 years ago, if not more. The only person that I am better than, is the person I was yesterday. I am so incredibly confused as to why anyone in their right mind would actually think I'm better than them, or think that I think that I'm better than them. I only want to be a better me, to me and my child. 

Let's try another; your television characters to your favorite shows, aren't real. !!! Now not to be confusing, the people playing said characters are real, but whom they are portraying, that character isn't real. So when the scenario on television changes, you can't attack the REAL person in REAL life, because again, they aren't who you think they are on screen. And while we're here, the characters in your books; GASP what's a book?! If you read, those characters also aren't real, and to really throw you for a loop, the character in the book isn't the character on the screen who is played by the person who isn't either that character on screen NOR the character in the book. 

One last one; if you're gainfully employed, you were hired to do a job and said job I can bet, isn't to sit and complain about having to do your job. Complaints in the workplace are completely understandable, but in perspective, if your days are spent more on complaining and/or avoiding work than it is producing actual work via your job description, you need to go home. Right away, just leave. Also, it's work, where grown ups go to make a living; please for all that is good in the world, do not confuse the workplace for neither the playground nor high school. 

Alright, that's enough for tonight. I know this was a heavy one but I felt like some of it just needed to be cleared up, and I hope it's helped out at least some. I wanted to title this one "Did You Drop Kick Your Common Sense?" but I felt like the context was enough to not be a jerk in the title as well.