Wow! It's Wednesday already? I guess that I got caught up in all the sunshine this weekend and lost track of time. We had a rare and unprecedented streak of warm weather (I should clarify...warm here is 24C, 78F) and everyone dragged their pale bodies out for a bit of sunshine prior to the temperatures dropping below freezing.
I made a stop into Costco on Sunday to buy some of those large pork chops for a family BBQ to celebrate V's birthday. You know the pork chops they sell. The ones about the size of a brick. I was dismayed to see boxes of halloween candies and decorations already on sale, even before school had started (starts today here). I thought there was some unwritten law that halloween could not be pimped out until after Labour Day. Similar to that rule about wearing white...
If I was dismayed at seeing the halloween stuff on sale, you can imagine my horror at seeing the aisle-full of schtuff for Christmas on sale...that's correct, Christmas items on sale Sept. 3. Christmas trees, wrapping paper and bows, cards, candy...
I don't know about everyone else, but it's difficult to get in the Christmas spirit before the kids have returned to school and it's 24C outside (unless you live in Australia). I'm thinkin' we'll all be sick of the commercialism and hearing about the 'season' by mid-October. About the same time they start to replace the muzak with Christmas carols over the intercom system. Shouldn't there be laws in place about this sort of thing?
As I read over my rant of the previous two paragraphs, I notice that I used the word 'Christmas' five times instead of the more PC expression 'holiday'. But that's a conversation for another day...
Husband Update #3
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