What Scrooge says and what i think

I was reading my bosses blog over the holidays and was shocked to see someone hated our giant "Plasma Screen TV" giveaway...
"What a waste of money when there are starving people in Milwaukee" he or she said...i don't know if it was a she or he because they cloaked themselves under the word "anonymous"...which i guess is as good as any name when your a big chickens#$...OPPS...see, here's where i get in to trouble...i should just say "i respect your opinion and i hope you'll respect my right to disagree"...think of all the trouble i could have bypassed in life if i had just done that!!!!!!!

But, and that's a big butt i have...that has never been me...one who...when faced in a pile of quicksand and a shovel in which to dig my way out of has always politely said, "no thanks" and just sank to the bottom! What i'm trying to say, i think, is that i would never be a great in politics because you would always know what i think! Although, as my friends would tell you, if i was telling you to go to hell, i would always be polite enough to include directions! Maybe that's why i'm always stuck on the night shift!!

So, maybe i shouldn't use the word big chicken whatever...maybe this year will be the year of the "kinder, gentler jock." The one who when reading on my bosses blog "i was outraged by your wasteful stupid plasma screen tv giveaway" could say something INSTEAD LIKE "i recognize that you think you have a valid point but tell me anonymous person, what did YOU DO this year to make a difference in someones life?"...Cuz, i could think of a ton of ways YOU CAN HELP!!!

For instance, every time we sponser another "Mothers helping Mother's" or we try to provide a Thanksgiving meal for families that usually don't even get a whole meal during the day...all families who live in our city, maybe next door to you or down the block...or, if you missed those, here's some other ideas YOU, yes you, anonymous plasma screen hating person can take part in;

I'm not trying to promote Pick N Save here but just in case you do shop there they offer an advantage card program where if you have one (an advantage card), you can simply stop by their customer service desk and fill out a form in which THEY (Pick N Save) will donate a percentage of what you spend to a deserving charity of your choice like your kids school, or boy or girl scouts or even an animal shelter...my designation goes to the No Kill cat shelter called "HAPPY ENDINGS" on 5349 Forest Home Avenue in Milwaukee because i have personally witnessed how hard they work over there to rehabilitate abused or abandoned cats and kittens that would have otherwise been destroyed...they also neuter feral cats and they work their butts off with very little and yet, accomplish a heck of a lot...i'm really proud of them...shoot, if at the very least you pick up an extra thing of paper towels or heavy duty trash bags or even cat food, or at the very least you have a couple of extra bucks, you could drop it off next time you drive by there, they're open Thursday nights and Saturday's from 10-4pm. (You can also email them at happyend@execpc.com)

And then there is our awesome Wisconsin Humane Society...did you know you can volunteer there?...my daughter and me are discussing it for this spring when you can volunteer May through September to help feed orphaned wild birds. (This came from an incident last spring at the "Elegant Farmer" in Muskego when i encountered a helpless baby bird lying on a hot tar pavement with a broken wing that was obviously going to die, but i couldn't just leave it lying there...so i picked it up and looked for help--i had no idea what to do to comfort it and from that moment i said "never again, i want to know what to do")

Ok, ok, i know my suggestions are animal related, but it's something, it's a start...sure beats complaining about plasma screen tv's, although that's just my opinion.