Ashton Twitters. Congress Twitters. And now even Oprah Twitters. Which leads me to believe that it can’t be good.

I will admit that I often develop strong harsh feelings to very random things for almost no reason at all. Just this week I decided to hate avocados. Their evil in disguise. I also hate Sir Mix-A-Lot’s Baby Got Back because I heard it too many times in one weekend in college. I have left bars, parties, even wedding receptions because of this song. But my one great reason for disliking something is when millions upon millions of people are all suddenly into it.

I never had a myspace page. I just got an ipod a couple of months ago (and am very unhappy I did because in one week our playlist was deleted,and apple raised their prices. ) If everyone around me is doing something, I feel this need to shun it.

Now, I know what your thinking. “But Nikki you have a blog. Blog’s aren’t very original.” But no one I personally know has one. So I’m still being an individual within my own community. Plus I don’t share everything. There’s a lot of posts that I’ve deleted because I thought they might be crossing the TMI border.

I’m also on facebook, but at the time hardly any of my friends were on there. Now everyone I know is on there. The day my mother joins is the day I {might} close my account. (Sorry mom, but it’s true.)

I love sharing with people, but do we really need to keep each other updated on every minute of our day? Really? Where’s the mystery?

The funny thing about all this over-communication is that I feel like we now have less to share when we actually see each other face to face. I already know how your week went, so what’s the point in meeting for drinks. You gave the play by play of your date last night on facebook, so what’s the point in calling me to gush.

I for one would like us all to take a day for some inner reflection. One day where we just sat queitly and didn’t feel compelled to share our thoughts at every minute. A day to get in touch with our inner loner. One day to just Twitter with ourselves.

Er…wait…no…you know what I meant.

MEMORANDUM

DATE: December 24, 2008

TO: SuperFresh Foods

FROM: TipsyNikki

RE: Keeping Valentine’s Day in February

On a recent shopping trip to your fine establishment, it came to my attention that you have begun displaying Valentine’s Day candy, months before the actual holiday. It would have gone unnoticed, nestled there between the poinsettias and wreaths, but once I saw it I could not ignore the big red hearts and pink candies.
I understand that you, the retail gods, are already in mourning over the passing of the winter holiday season, but Christmas isn’t even over yet.

I’ve accepted the infringement of Christmas displays immediately after Halloween, but I can not accept Valentine’s day, a holiday created by the retail gods, encroaching New Years and Christmas. This is where I draw the line.

I just spent a lot of money on Christmas presents for my would be Valentine and personally feel perturbed at the thought of spending more money for a meaningless holiday that’s less than two months away. Not to mention the fact that I feel like a fat pig after consuming holiday cookies, fudge, pie. Now you want me to start in on candy hearts and boxes of chocolate? Before long I won’t even be able to fit down your outrageously narrow aisles (which I will be commenting on in a future memo).

If it wouldn’t be too much of a problem, could you please try to restrain yourself from advertising for future holidays until we have actually completed the holiday we are currently celebrating?

And how about giving some of the lesser holidays a shot. Like, maybe you could run a special on cherry pies for Washington’s birthday? Or discounted logs for Lincoln’s? And I feel very strongly about selling black and white cookies for MLK Day.

If you could keep all this in consideration, I would possibly consider participating in more sales. But as it is now, when Valentine’s Day does arrive, I will refuse to give in to your pressure. Especially with the knowledge that those candy’s have been sitting there for two months. Ick!