Tis the Season...

... to be rushed.

Is it my imagination, or does it feel as if the world is spinning so ridiculously fast that everyone is losing touch with today, and continually looking to tomorrow instead of enjoying today???

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Lets take a few hours out of today, visit with family, eat until our pants are about to burst at their seams, then clean up, toss up some Christmas lights and break out the chestnuts because after all Christmas is a mere 33 days away!!

33 WHOLE days! My gosh! What ever will I do with 33 whole days between today and the next major commercialized holiday?

I was aggravated about the fact that the stores were shoving Christmas down our throats before Halloween had even arrived. In the past I have complained about the fact that Christmas seems to come earlier and earlier every damned year. Do not mistake me for a scrooge, I really do LOVE Christmas. I just hate that the world seems to have lost touch with the meaning of the holiday and only cares about the bottom line.

This rant was sparked by my drive home this evening after a lovely day with family, and enough food to sink a ship. Tonight while driving home I didn't see thanksgiving decorations, I saw several (not just one) home or business decked out to the nines in Christmas lights, those awful blow up Santa Claus decorations (which for the record should be outlawed for their hideousness) and Christmas Wreaths!
Did these people even celebrate Thanksgiving, or did they just completely bypass family time and being thankful for a T.V. dinner and light hanging??

Then there is Black Friday. The biggest shopping day of the year. I certainly can not speak for everyone when I say this, but who in their right mind would WILLINGLY put themselves in the middle of a shopping mall on this day? I imagine the crowds are much like those in the days of the Kmart "blue light special" and in my humblest of opinions is like the running of the bull and should be avoided at all costs. I may eat those words someday, as I am sure the midget will at some point request the "it" toy which is harder to find than a wooden nickel, and I will be cast into the masses to wait on line and get it- but for now, I will NOT be shopping at midnight or 4 AM, I will be sleeping. Spend some money for me, because THIS girl will NOT be tearing her hair out to shop no sirree bob!

I am ranting, which I often do when something like this gets under my skin, but seriously... Is it too much to ask for everyone to just slow down just a little bit? Is it too much to request that we sit back and enjoy today while we have it?

I am a planner. I confess, I HAVE been THINKING about Christmas, PLANNING my decorating and PLANNING Christmas Eve festivities, but in no way shape or form would I completely bypass today. Today was a beautiful day. We had absolutely gorgeous weather, fantastic food, a few good laughs, and just quality family time. Why would I want to waste even a second of that to be pissed off because I just hung a string of lights only to find that when I plugged it in there was a dead bulb somewhere and it didn't work???

To those people who rush the season STOP!
Be thankful for today. Enjoy TODAY, because tomorrow- there are only leftovers...

Until next time...