Happy Holidays

Seasons Greetings and HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015
Yes, it's the time again to argue whether to say Seasons Greetings or Season's Greetings. I would like to direct your attention to the end of the blog.
Taipei 101 New Year fireworks


2014 is the Year of Horse, let's welcome the arrival of  2015, the Year of Ram

 2014 Taipei 101 New Year fireworks

Christmas

How Christmas are celebrated around the world http://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/

Some funny quotes about Christmas from famous people:

The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.

- Joan Rivers

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

- Shirley Temple

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

- George Carlin

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

- Jay Leno

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

- Phyllis Diller

For more jokes, please visit http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/13/funny-christmas-quotes-jo_n_2283747.html  15 Funny Christmas Quotes The Huffington Post UK

Some interesting statistic about Christmas

Among the religiously unaffiliated, 87% say they celebrate Christmas, including 68% who view Christmas as more of a cultural holiday.

Roughly eight-in-ten Americans (79%) say they plan to put up a Christmas tree this year. By comparison, 92% say they typically put up a Christmas tree when they were children.

Nearly six-in-ten Americans say they plan to give homemade gifts this holiday season, such as baked goods or crafts. There is a big gender gap on this question; two-thirds of women (65%) plan to give homemade gifts, compared with 51% of men.

Those who celebrate Christmas as more of a religious event are much more apt than those who view it as a cultural occasion to say they will attend religious services this Christmas (73% vs. 30%) and to believe in the virgin birth (91% vs. 50%). But on other measures, the differences in the ways the two groups will mark the holidays are much smaller. Roughly nine-in-ten in both groups will gather with family and friends and buy gifts this Christmas, and identical shares of each group will pretend to get a visit from Santa Claus on Christmas Eve (33% each).

For entire article, please visit:

Celebrating Christmas and the Holidays, Then and Now December 18, 2013 
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/12/18/celebrating-christmas-and-the-holidays-then-and-now/

Jensen Beach mansion decorated for Christmas 
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152407629370882
 

Should you send ‘season’s greetings’ or ‘seasons greetings’? 

By Jeff March and Marti Childs

While preparing your holiday cards, you may be stumped by a recurring December dilemma: should you write “season’s greetings” or “seasons’ greetings”? Or “seasons greetings,” with no apostrophe at all?
Please read the entire article: http://www.davisenterprise.com/business/business-columns/should-you-send-season%E2%80%99s-greetings-or-seasons-greetings/

It's my point of view that life is too short to worry about rules or rightness in daily writing, as long as the writer can get his/her points crossed and that should be enough. In this example, with ' or without, would it affect the well meaning of the sender? I like to see life becomes simpler and I am longing for the day when I can say, I eat my dinner last night, is acceptable. So take it easy, Spelling Beasts and Grammar Nazis, life is wonderful without constantly worrying about proper writings.

Happy Holidays