Christmas time

Anyone else watch The Charlie Brown Christmas Special 2 nights ago? I had been looking forward to it all day, knowing I had to be home by 7 sharp, so I wouldn't miss it. Could I have Tivo'd it? Yes. Could I have rented it any day of the year to watch it whenever I want? Yes. But I wanted to watch it like I've always watched it, my whole life...the actual night and time it comes on TV.

Kids are so screwed now with the Cartoon Network and all those channels because cartoons are on 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The magic is gone. G-O-N-E. I mean, remember when we were kids and our cartoon viewing was just Saturday morning. And it was the best! Cartoons ALL...MORNING...LONG. All morning! What more could we ask for?? And the only topper to that was the "Specials" that came on at night. NIGHT! When we were supposed to be getting ready for bed, we instead got to watch cartoons! And every year it was the same...Bugs Bunny, Charlie Brown Christmas and Halloween, Frosty, The Grinch, maybe some Mary Poppins...Did we care? No! It became tradition and we loved it. And all day at school we'd be thinking, Yes! There's a He-Man special on tonight! Yes! Yes! I have the power!Yes! And if you missed it or GOD FORBID fell asleep during it, then that was just too bad. No Tivo or any of that crap, you just had to wait a WHOLE 'NOTHER YEAR.

And every year I do wait, and the excitement and the magic all come back, and even if it's just for half an hour...it sure is nice.