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Christmas
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in 1992 and we look
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May the peace and joy
of the Christmas season
be yours in 1993.
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Gisele Ireland
This year I'll be perfect
At this time of the year, more than
any other, I am driven by the demons
of perfection. Once, just once, I'd
like to pull off the PERFECT
CHRISTMAS.
Super Wrench
just laughs every
time I go into
hormone over-
drive to achieve
what he consid-
ers the ridiculous.
Super Wrench
doesn't believe
in perfection. He
claims even
Mary and Joseph,
who should have
demanded per-
fection, managed
to make it work
with a few major
snags. And I was
under the impression there were only
three wise men!
The whole thing comes down to
what one would consider perfect.
Babies are about as close as you can
get, until they get leaky and you're
walking them across a cold floor
around 2 a.m., and they are deter-
mined to exercise every cell and
bellow in their lungs.
If you talk to men, you would find
that some women come close to
being perfect, but something about
them makes them fall just short. If
she's great looking, she might never
have discovered what a stove is used
for and if she's a stunner and can
cook, she drives the birds south in
July when she sings in the shower.
Men have much further to go to come
anywhere near perfection, but we
won't get into that. I'm interested in
a PERFECT CHRISTMAS.
You know the kind I mean. You
know exactly what you are going to
get for everyone on your list, and you
find it in the first store. To make it
really perfect, it all fits and they just
love the colour, which means you
don't have to rummage through the
garbage downstairs to find the sales
slips. In the perfect Christmas, all the
baking turns out just like it was pic-
tured in the magazine. The bottoms
aren't burned, the icing didn't run off
the edges and the colour turned out
Super Wrench
doesn't believe
in perfection
Christmas green and red instead of
sickly purple and verging on brown.
In the perfect Christmas, you don't
run out of time. You plan, and
everything around you cooperates.
No one comes down with the flu or
bronchitis on Christmas Eve and we
get just enough fluffy snow to make
it pretty and the blizzards go to
another part of the country.
In the perfect Christmas, everyone
is happy and wants to make Christ-
mas wonderful for everyone else
around them. They spend time visit-
ing people they've forgotten all year,
they remember relatives whom
they've wanted to trade off to terror-
ists to use as hostages, and these
people are the recipients of those
gnash -your -teeth letters that capsu-
lizes the outstanding accomplish-
ments of the entire family in seven
nauseating paragraphs or more.
In the perfect Christmas, there is
enough to go around so everyone can
receive their basic needs and those
who have ample are more than happy
to open their cheque books and their
hearts to make it a reality.
The perfect Christmas is when no
one is too tired from running around
doing what boils down to unneces-
sary, to enjoy the special magic that
is always there, but not obvious to
everyone.
However you and your loved ones
plan to celebrate this special season,
my wish is that it will be the
PERFECT CHRISTMAS for you.0
Gisele Ireland is from Bruce County.
Her most recent book, Brace Yourself,
is available for $7 from Bumps Books,
Teeswater, Ontario. NOG 2S0.
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