Send me to Mars... Please!

you're both right.

 

Mars? You should be so lucky. Keep this up and you'll be thrown out with the trash.

 

since when is wrapping presents the only thing that happens during the holidays??

i still have to do some of that; after i get all the Xmas decorations down from the very hard to get to attic in the garage. and hang all the outside lights (hardly any of which are at a comfortable elevation) rearrange the furniture (about 12 times because we dont have room for a tree, no matter what so figuring out what we can live with for a 3 weeks is apparently a difficult job for some)

and after all that, i am expected to add several other chores that i normally dont do because "someone" is too tired from all the shopping they had to do...

to be honest with ya, i would rather shop

 

I never know why people feel the need to do so much extra stuff for the holiday. Like, why bother with lights? And don't wrap gifts for other adults - just put them in giftbags. Etc.

I understand a few extra things people probably want to do if they have kids (but even a lot of that I question. You can still have a nice time without making it a consumerist and decorating orgy).

 

well "I" dont wrap gifts, not even for my son. i think its a waste, so i reuse the packaging that others have given me, or as what frequently happens in my son's case, simply assemble it.

but "I" am a minority amongst my family. but i do have several lazy members so i collect a few extra bags every year. more than enough for my gift giving needs.

as far as the lights go...well those are for me. never did outgrow them!!

 

I should rephrase..."why people need to do so much extra stuff for the holiday...if they're going to martyr themselves or complain about it" (not saying anyone here is doing that, but the wife of the OP is coming close...)

 

Anyway you wouldn't want to go to Mars now as they do not want natives of other planets contaminating Mars with opportunistic microorganisms to which they have no naturally evolved resistance.

 

...and your wife wants to go to Venus?

 

Now that we understand Venus a lot better, we now know that only really hot women are there.

 

So what we need is a holiday compromise. How about something like this:



Tom

 

Dang it. Now the North Pole is no longer a place.

 

When I first saw the title, I thought of The Final Frontier: A Mars Mission With No Return : NPR and http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-mars-one-way-20101116,0,3966661.story.

 

I am surprised at you Tom... I figured this would be a sheep dressed in red.

 

I swing both ways.

Tom