Tonight there's gonna be trouble...

This is just such a blah sorta day. I woke up not feeling "it," you know what I mean? That indescribable thing that motivates you to get up and start your day? This, of course, meant I had no idea what to write about today. No clue whatsoever.

So I turned to Metalmom. She used the meme that I tried out yesterday saying that she was thankful to not have to think up a topic of her own. So I challenged her gratitude and asked for an idea for today in return. What she gave me was pretty interesting. It came from Darned to Heck. Basically, you take the phrase "what's more important..." and pit two things against each other.

Oh, now this opens up a ton of possibilities. The odd thing was that most of the pseudo-contestants I came up with referred back to my childhood. Star Wars vs. Star Trek, G.I. Joe vs. Transformers? Lego vs. Erector Sets? Kickball vs. Dodgeball? Halloween vs. Christmas?

That last one got me thinking... what's more important, Santa Claus or his elves?

This almost becomes a bit of a chicken or the egg argument as both are pretty codependent. 

Santa Claus delivers the toys. But the elves have to make them. Without the elves, Santa has nothing.

On the reverse side, though, without Santa, the elvish creations never see the light of day; they'd be unemployed.

Santa is the face of Christmas, but you can almost argue that he's just a figurehead with the real power belonging to the elves. The Parliament to his Queen of England.

Could the elves replace Santa easier than Santa could replace the elves?

Perhaps the elves would hire a consultant to help them develop some sort of delivery center model like an Amazon.com? Should they unionize? Would they find a new figurehead or keep using Santa's portly image? Would they have to pay royalties to the Claus family to keep using his image or has he been around long enough to have outlived trademarking?

Should Santa upgrade his facilities and use a robot-driven assembly line? Maybe he should just subcontract through other toy manufacturers and save himself the development costs inherent in his current business model. Just slap a "Santa Approved!" sticker on their packaging.

You'll notice I still haven't decided which is more important. That's where you come in. Let's argue this one out, all of us. Throw in your two cents.

Okay, this is pretty stupid, admittedly. But I'm feeling really weird right about now.

For those not in the argumentative mood, I've got another meme in the extended post.

I got this little gem from Nilsa at SoMi and also saw it used on kilax's blog. It's fun... if you can remember what you need to for it.

Ten seconds ago I was wrapping up a pretty messed-up blog post.
Ten minutes ago I was wondering if I should continue writing that messed-up blog post.
Ten days ago Katie and I were wishing we were still in Florida.
Ten weeks ago we were happy to not have to take down Christmas decorations.
Ten months ago we were celebrating my Mom's birthday.
Ten years ago I had met Katie for the first time, and was ending it with my long-distance girlfriend of the time (these were independent events and not tied in together at all).
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Ten years from now I hope to be a father, a couple times over.
Ten months from now Katie and I will be celebrating ten years of being together (not married).
Ten weeks from now we will be lamenting that our second Florida trip of the year is over.
Ten days from now I will be wondering what the heck happened to the month of March.
Ten minutes from now I want to go for a walk.
Ten seconds from now I'll finally publish this post.