The Annual Rant
Sorry I haven’t been more receptive with this blog but there hasn’t been heaps to inflict on you. A lot of THIS usually followed by heaps of THAT and being in with the local bike shop gives me the chance to test THESE.
The non blogging malaise is only going to get worse because my body shuts down from about the middle of December until the end of January when signs of intelligent life finally returns to Metropolis.
I loathe Christmas. In fact, I loathe summer with it’s heat and thrip hordes, and yesterday, being the last day of spring and temperatures nudging 40c, doesn’t auger well for my forthcoming disposition.
Don’t you just love listening to “Jingle Bells” in the supermarket which is usually inflicted on ones ears just before Christmas. Like early November! Still, I can get some good fruit mince pies from about October onwards.
Then we have the post Christmas sales; that institution of excessive greed where hordes of bogans mass cheek to jowl outside stores hoping to grab a $500 camera for $490 which they could have bought cheaper online anyway.
You think it’s bad here. Well, it’s an absolute calamity in the US with their post Thanksgiving sales as reported by America’s finest news source, The Onion.
Hopefully I have something less Scroogy and more uplifting to report in my next instalment.
Maybe like Smart meters and the death of the meter reader!
That’s not a rant – it is a complaint.
I am grateful that I do not have to deal with Thanksgiving excess any longer but I do miss hanging out with the family. That part was cool. The post-Thanksgiving shopping thing seems to have worsened in the 20 years since I left. Ick
I do a lot of complaining at this time of the year.
I hate shopping except thrift stores and when gift shopping i will only shop local stores and haven’t been in a mall for years.
Good for you. Nothing wrong with thrift stores either.
I agree. I enjoy the rebellious feeling of opting out of Christmas and I get a sick enjoyment out of watching the hoards of people rushing about in a crazy frenzy with their credit cards overloaded buying gifts for (often) ungrateful and overindulged people. I still believe in the magic of Christmas for children and love to see the joy it brings them. But now that we are an all adult family, it is time to just catch up for a simple get together when we want to, not when society tells us we are supposed to. Cheers, Mary
Called the Silly Season for obvious reasons.
I hate shopping except for thrift stores like June in Florida. We, my sister and best friend and their spouses, have come to the consensus that we should celebrate Christmas without exchanging gifts because the entire lot of us are too lazy to go shopping; instead we celebrate by getting together and breaking bread. And 104° isn’t hot, but I’ll have to admit putting up Christmas decorations is hard enough to do without having to do it in a balmy 104°.
40c IS hot for November. By February when we get 45′s then 40 seems like a cool change!
Time to go away somewhere remote in your camper then….
Hopefully it’s not one of these recalled ones:
http://www.recalls.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/1030674
http://www.recalls.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/1030670
Take the bikes, they look fun!
T.
Thanks for the info. Had me rushing out looking at the chassis number. Not there thankfully. It’s just back from it’s first service and nothing was said and I haven’t received a recall.
Oh good, glad you weren’t one of them!