I'd rather kiss a toilet seat!

Yep, today's bow pays tribute to one/two of my favorite Christmas movies AND to one of my family's traditions.  First, the bow, another off-beat piece from DollfaceDesigns.
Often the first thing my family did when we came home from Thanksgiving dinner was take a long nap, and after that we'd pop in a Christmas movie.  We had quite a few that we would watch yearly, some funny and some serious.  National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is my all-time favorite, but I also loved the first two installments of the Home Alone franchise.  Indeed, I think that of all the movies I've watched, Home Alone and Home Alone 2 take the award for most dysfunctional family.  The families in Christmas Vacation and The Santa Clause are nothing to write home about, but the McCallister family takes the cake.  The kids are all a bunch of brats, the parents spend much of both movies with their heads up their butts, and the extended family (particularly Uncle Frank) is just plain obnoxious.  Kevin, the youngest child and the main protagonist, is no angel to be sure, but when one looks at his family one can't help but feel sorry for the poor kid.  His older siblings are all hateful to him, and his parents do nothing about the bullying until Kevin snaps, retaliates, and inadvertently makes a huge mess.  I particularly relate to the scene in the first movie where Kevin jumps up and down in an upstairs hallway, bellering "I'M LIVIN' ALONE!!!  I'M LIVIN' ALONE!!!"  I only shared a house with three people as opposed Kevin's six, but even so there were times when one or more of my family members drove me nuts and vice versa. 

Despite being perceived as inept and helpless by his siblings, Kevin proves to be quite resourceful during his time alone, and those who are familiar with the movie know where this ends up.  Marv's burned face gives a clue to the unaware.
Yes, Marv.  For the uninitiated, Harry and Marv are the main antagonists of the flick, and they've been casing Kevin's house from the beginning of the flick, waiting to burgle it.  Neither man is very bright, but poor Marv is REALLY not very bright, and this combined with Kevin's ingenuity proves to be his and Harry's downfall.  Indeed, by the end of the second flick Marv probably wished that a burned face was the ONLY injury he'd sustained.  I'm not gonna give away too much since some of y'all probably haven't seen either flick yet, but for the record, iron burns blow.  I've only burned myself a couple'a times, but iron burns are not fun.

Mayhem,
RagingMoon1987

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