simply november

it's November 1, 2012, one of my least liked days.  i don't know where this feeling or thought comes from but every year on november first i begin this hatred of winter, hatred of how commercial the world has become and this hatred of christmas.  bah humbug i am sure you are muttering at me right now.

one thing that i think bothers me so much is this jump to christmas that the world seems to have the day after halloween. 

and it bothers me so much because such an important day is overlooked - november 11 - rememberance day. 

i think it is overlooked because there isn't a whole lot commercial about the day.  you don't see tshirts for sale, you don't exchange gifts or cards.  there aren't things in the aisles of the stores shouting out at you buy me because it is rememberence day.


both of my grandparents were in world war 2.  if it weren't for the people who fought in the wars and dealt with the conflicts that the world experienced in the past then you wouldn't be out there shopping for those christmas gifts, or working in your big corporate highrise, taking home your fat paycheque or let alone - enjoying the freedom and life that you experience around you.

i just ask that maybe, just maybe, people could pause and realize the importance of a day that is so significant, yet so simple.  it doesn't take a lot of time, or money or planning to take the time for this special day and to appreciate its significance.   

at least in the US they have thanksgiving to look forward to at the end of the month before they jump head first into the world of the fat jolly man. 

i love fall, especially in muskoka but once the leaves fall away and the vibrant colours of halloween decorations come down it leaves behind ~ november.  just plain blah, dreary, winter pending november

this time last year i was researching ways to move to the okanagan.  why?  because that area has almost the most days of sunshine a year in the entire country, has little snow, appeals to this idea of living a simpler life when i could grow fruits and vegetables and enjoy locally grown products for the bulk of the year and it would allow my family to explore the west coast of the continent for the next 40 years of life.  i figured i lived in ontario the first 40 years of my life, why not live on the west coast for the next 40. 

and then reality sets in - it is expensive to move, that part of the country is an expensive place to live and there just aren't the jobs there. 

so this year's dream is far more realistic ....

i am going to move my family to a tropical island where we are going to run a tiki bar on a beach, or we can take people on deep sea fishing excursions or go chonch fishing and my kids can make seashell necklaces and sell them to the tourists.  they are pretty cute kids, they could swindle tourists into taking their pictures for a small fee ....

there will be no commercial holidays being shoved down my throat but i will decorate my tiki hut with poppies

~ simply me in dreamworld ~