HalloThanxMas

It is 01, November, 2011, Halloween costumes are sweaty and gross from the weekend of partying, most people over the age of 16 have probably given their bile ducts a great workout from the weekend of binge drinking and wasting their money on overpriced beverages, kids are back in school on a sugar high after a night of going door to door begging strangers for free candy that contributes to the ever growing obesity rate in this country. Parents spend three hundred and sixty four days a year teaching their children “don't take candy from strangers”, “don't go to a strangers home/door”, “don't eat something that you don't know where it came from”, and yet for one night it's okie, and we all wonder why this world is full of mixed messages. (And yes I actually did go out to a club this year and celebrated Halloween with the masses of drunken, sloppy party animals and that was just a reminder of why I don't go clubbing regularly.)

However, this tirade is not the point of this post. My actual intention is to complain about the fact that Christmas and the holiday season just seems to be starting ridiculously early and quite frankly I think that is CRAP!!! Don't get me wrong, you all already know that I am of the camp that believes that Christmas has become an over commercialized, greed infused, excuse to spend way too much money on shit that nobody really needs , and whatever the original point of the holiday has long since been lost in a fest of “gimme gimme gimme”.

I work in a mall, and as we were selling Halloween costumes to our customers on the 23 of October, I look out the door of my store to see the mall Christmas decorations go walking by. For fuck sake Simon Malls, the annual candy beg festival hasn't even taken place yet and you are already going to bombard us with the fake evergreen garlands and wreaths and the twinkle of lights, that you haven't taken the time to update in about twenty-five years?!?

And as long as I am on a rant may I just ask you one simple question please...WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THANKSGIVING??? I know, its just another holiday that goes back to the days that Senor Columbus sailed and stole the land from those who rightfully owned it, and I am sure that the Native Americans probably curse Squanto for not letting the settlers freeze to death and/or starve, but at one point in time there was actually a message that was positive to be derived from Thanksgiving, as there was for Christmas too.

I know that I am coming off as a bitter, bah humbug, scrooge and maybe that is in fact who I have become after 11 years of working retail but I am just making a mere observation. I still am involved in the holidays. I buy gifts, I enjoy the spirit of the season and for lack of a better word the feeling. I love watching the magic that you can see in the faces of the kids, my goddaughter, my nieces, I am even kind of sad that I will be missing out on the opportunity to see the magic in the faces of strangers children as they bring a holiday friend to life before their eyes now that I am no longer a part of the toy making world. However I can't say that I will miss being “at fault” for peoples last minute behaviors and being the one to “blame” that the hot item of the season sold out weeks before you chose to do your holiday shopping.

I just wish that more people would be a little more selfless and give more of themselves and expect less in return. Take a minute and open their fucking eyes to see how good they have it and stop bitching and moaning about how they need and want more. Very few of us actually NEED more, there is a massive desire to want more in this world, sadly I get to see it first hand on a regular basis,and that might be why I am on a soapbox about the subject at the moment. It's just hard to watch greed and desire ruin what really is a wonderful world.

Now I know that very few people are actually going to take a minute to read my thoughts on any of these subjects, I am not delusional, I have a meager following of only one fan...thank you J. Trav, so I don't expect my words to make one damn bit of difference, however this is my blog and I am going to say whatever I want to!

Now stepping off of my soapbox...for a few minutes...fun time...

likes

*cookie dough

*Lomeli's Pizza

*playing with my baby BeBe

*Jack and Coke

*DAMNED by Chuck Palahniuk

*NaNoWriMo

*the honkers

*writing a character that I really enjoy just to realize that I am going to brutally murder them later in the story

*witnessing that beautiful moment of “warmth”

dislikes

*plans being canceled

*greed

*Christmas coming so early

*digression

*NaNoWriMo

*laundry when I have procrastinated myself into a mountain

*unruly children