It's still the Season to be jolly, dammit

I spent last weekend in Nashville with Arnie and perhaps one of the most fun things we did was to indulge our inner child by escaping after 20 minutes from a party where we knew no one and where it was clear that we would never know anyone....We both felt like bad 2nd graders who had gone kicking and screaming to birthday party of a kid they didn't like. We had a drink, I ate a ham biscuit and then we snuck out, changed our clothes and went out to hear some local musicians. Nashville is full of music but this is practically the first time that the timing has been right and we could actually get a seat in a club. The song that I loved the most by this popular group -- don't ask me what they are called -- was "be Good or be gone."

Yeah baby. I think that's my new mantra.

And shopping in Nashville is of course so different than shopping in New York because people there wish you a Merry Christmas and indeed it is a Merry Christmas. I'm sure I won't win any friends on this one but frankly it is not the Holiday season, it is Christmas. And on then on Friday we will leave for our annual trek to Georgia to celebrate the Holidays aka Christmas with Sheftalls..Earlier this week.Kate and I bought a Christmas tree so that we will have that to come home to and I see now that it is towering in our living room that it is a very big tree indeed. Beautiful but big. We will do the lights tonight and then decorate it just in time to leave for 5 days! LOL