Saturday, November 15, 2008
No Fall This Year
Is it just me or have people/stores/commercials decided that they were going to skip Thanksgiving this year? I hear talk of people already decorating their homes and going gift shopping and it seems so strange to me. I seem to remember a time when Christmas didn't start until after turkey day. Maybe the fact that it has been 90 something degrees has something to do with it. "Fall" here isn't really fall, it's more like a tree here or there turned yellow or orange but everything else remains the same. Sometimes I wish I lived in a place that had true seasons where I could wear a coat and a scarf in the morning and still need it around lunch time; a place where when I walked by the scarves, hats and gloves in Target I would actually stop and maybe buy something instead of looking, laughing and going to check if there are any shorts left on clearance.
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I don't like winter but I, too, sometimes wish I could vist a place where it's cold and blustery and I need a long coat and a pair of gloves. I hate that t's fall and the weather cannot make up its mind.
True observations! I had to go to Target to buy gloves and a jacket for our trip to Missouri in December. It was 82 degrees the day I bought them!
Whoops! I plead guilty! I just had my hubby bring out all of our Christmas decorations from storage today!
We already put up our Christmas decorations, and I am loving it! We had to do it early or it wouldn't have been worth it since I'll be out there so long. My favorite thing about living in Alabama is having 4 seasons. Loves it! It makes the holidays more fun, for me anyway.
I tried to buy a new fan the other day because ours went on the fritz and it was too hot to sleep. Nobody is selling them right now, so I just took the kids.
As for Christmas, I think it needs to wait until mid December. That way I can at least pretend I get a birthday.
So true, Steph. Retail has been pushing the limits on this for some time now, but this is the first year that I have been blown away by the audacity to override a very special holiday (Thanksgiving).
While I have been bringing out things to plan our Christmas display, I will NOT turn them on until the weekend after Thanksgiving... even though I LOVE Christmas decorations & want them up NOW :-)
I promised myself that I wouldn't pull my stuff out until after Thanksgiving but Tyler is gone and I might just need something to do:) We'll see.
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