Amy’s Adventures

Dear Family and Friends:

Living inside the Beltway, I’m fortunate to have the beauty of freedom all around me. I use my annual Christmas “green” greeting to share this message with family and friends throughout the country. This year, I blended the Korean War Memorial, the US Botanical Gardens and the National Cathedral with an old school tune from 1984.

Simply, remember the troops and ” say a prayer, pray for the other ones.”

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy New Year

Amy & Paxton, 2009

And last, we must not forget that sometimes we don’t always get what’s on our list. A lesson learned from Hillary in her aspirations to be President and to bring us universal healthcare, the troops home, and middle class tax breaks. A simple fact of life these days, “you don’t always get what you want, you get what you need.”

Leave it to our friends north of the border to come up with the best Christmas commercial I’ve seen in 10 years. Hint: Things are not always what they seem under the mistletoe.

This commercial from Miller Light combines two of my favorite Christmas things: beer and a dazzling light show accompanied by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Since Christmas now starts in October and lasts well into January, I’m taking liberties by prolonging my 12 day of Christmas commercials.

Growing up in the south, I didn’t know or have any Jewish friends (much different today). I always saw Hannukah on the calendar and it always fell in the middle of December as we were putting up our tree and setting up the nativity scenes. I didn’t know much about it, except that if I celebrated it, I’d get eight days of presents versus just one. This Christmas vs. Hannukah “commerical” plays off the PC vs. Mac debate, and would’ve been helpful in the 80’s to help understand all the differences.