So George leaves Mary and the kids and ends up getting drunk and crashing his car and meets the angel Clarence and the pristine haven that was Bedford Falls becomes the Sodom and Gomorrah "Pottersville" where everyone is hanging out at bars and going to brothels on Christmas Eve and George is running around not being recognized with a bloody gash on his head acting all weird because he's never been born.
Allow me to confess that I've been watching way too many Hallmark Channel Christmas movies. Even Lifetime has them. I'm sort of obsessed. They have titles like "The Christmas Miracle," or "A Bride For Christmas." My daughter is concerned about me. When she walks into the house and sees me watching them, she just rolls her eyes. Recently she said I had "A Problem." Oh yeah Missy? "You just wait until YOUR Christmas Miracle happens and the angel on the tree becomes magical and I find the perfect man of my dreams who was actually right in front of me the entire time to make our Christmas perfect and magical and the best Christmas ever ever ever!" And she said "Good luck with that mom. I'm gonna go get my belly button pierced."
Now, let me just give you a synopsis of the classic "On Strike For Christmas" Lifetime movie. Perfect woman with a perfect family and a perfect house is just so darn TIRED of being taken for granted when she does Christmas all by herself while still running the amazingly successful "Black Friday at Wal Mart" Yarn Store. She put her heart and soul into that place, or at least five minutes during the movie when there was a whole crowd of people in her store, buying YARN. .So by God, enough was enough. When she saw the local supermarket employees on strike, she decided to go on strike too! And after her husband and sons TRIED to make her homemade cookies and only managed to make a mess of the kitchen, By God, they realized how important she was! And then they all sang at the end, realizing that Christmas was all about being together. Sigh.
But my favorite Christmas message comes from It's A Wonderful Life. Clarence did an awesome job teaching George how important he was, so when they got to the cemetery and Clarence told George how his brother died because he wasn't there to save him from drowning so then a crapload of OTHER people died because his brother wasn't there to save them during The War, George asked "Where's Mary?" (or something like that.) At that point angel Clarence lost it. He could barely choke out the words.
"Mary is a spinster. She never married George." OMG! And where did George find Mary? At the LIBRARY!!!!!!! Wearing glasses!!!!!!! And a grey suit, clutching books. No wonder George finally came to. It was a Christmas Miracle...Mary got to ditch the books and take care of George and a pile of kids again!
Allow me to confess that I've been watching way too many Hallmark Channel Christmas movies. Even Lifetime has them. I'm sort of obsessed. They have titles like "The Christmas Miracle," or "A Bride For Christmas." My daughter is concerned about me. When she walks into the house and sees me watching them, she just rolls her eyes. Recently she said I had "A Problem." Oh yeah Missy? "You just wait until YOUR Christmas Miracle happens and the angel on the tree becomes magical and I find the perfect man of my dreams who was actually right in front of me the entire time to make our Christmas perfect and magical and the best Christmas ever ever ever!" And she said "Good luck with that mom. I'm gonna go get my belly button pierced."
Now, let me just give you a synopsis of the classic "On Strike For Christmas" Lifetime movie. Perfect woman with a perfect family and a perfect house is just so darn TIRED of being taken for granted when she does Christmas all by herself while still running the amazingly successful "Black Friday at Wal Mart" Yarn Store. She put her heart and soul into that place, or at least five minutes during the movie when there was a whole crowd of people in her store, buying YARN. .So by God, enough was enough. When she saw the local supermarket employees on strike, she decided to go on strike too! And after her husband and sons TRIED to make her homemade cookies and only managed to make a mess of the kitchen, By God, they realized how important she was! And then they all sang at the end, realizing that Christmas was all about being together. Sigh.
But my favorite Christmas message comes from It's A Wonderful Life. Clarence did an awesome job teaching George how important he was, so when they got to the cemetery and Clarence told George how his brother died because he wasn't there to save him from drowning so then a crapload of OTHER people died because his brother wasn't there to save them during The War, George asked "Where's Mary?" (or something like that.) At that point angel Clarence lost it. He could barely choke out the words.
"Mary is a spinster. She never married George." OMG! And where did George find Mary? At the LIBRARY!!!!!!! Wearing glasses!!!!!!! And a grey suit, clutching books. No wonder George finally came to. It was a Christmas Miracle...Mary got to ditch the books and take care of George and a pile of kids again!
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