Yes, I'm already thinking about Christmas, mainly because my wife makes me.  Seriously, we will be decorating our house a full week before Thanksgiving, inside and out, with Christmas decorations and tidings of joy.  But this year, we plan on doing a vintage look with our interior decorating and adding a  possible tradition to our new family.  We're planning on buying antique Christmas Ornaments for display on our shelves and to decorate our tree.

Since my daughter will be able to enjoy Christmas this year more than last year, since she's only 13 months old, we're hoping this is a tradition we can continue.  A tradition where we purchase each other an inexpensive antique ornament to add to the display and tree every year.  My wife loves the idea, mainly because she's such a tradition fanatic, but it also fits in with our tight budget rounding out the end of 2008.

Maybe the title is an unfair assesment of the new self advertising medium MySpace is now providing.  I mean, I've yet to actually see the results from the network, since my ad has been pending approval since Sept 24th!  That's going on 13 days that my ad block has been setting in the hold bin pending approval.

Completely and utterly unacceptable.

Furthermore I contacted them, letting them know how long it had been and looking for some sort of indication when I could expect the campaign to run.  I was responded to within 24 hours, but no real information was given, only that they had a back log, sorry.  Such terrible execution of what could have been and may in the future be a good program.  For now and in the immediate future I will be taking my business elsewhere, it's obvious MySpace doesn't want nor need my advertising dollars for now.

Maybe I would have saved some time had I snail mailed my ads to them with an out-of-state check.

Snail Mail