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I haven't been able to take off to someplace warm or different, but I have said "heck with it all" and just not done Christmas. No tree, no decorations, not even presents. I'll stuff a couple dollars in a card for my brothers and call it good. I just don't have that jolly spirit and infinite credit card spending limit to keep up with the rat race. Or the desire to do so.
And guess what... When you take all the consumerism out of the holiday... it becomes a better holiday.
I haven't been able to take off to someplace warm or different, but I have said "heck with it all" and just not done Christmas. No tree, no decorations, not even presents. I'll stuff a couple dollars in a card for my brothers and call it good. I just don't have that jolly spirit and infinite credit card spending limit to keep up with the rat race. Or the desire to do so.
And guess what... When you take all the consumerism out of the holiday... it becomes a better holiday.
Some of my best christmas's was spent without the trappings.
I don't mean with the family in another state or other part of town. I mean saying to heck with all the fuss, I'm just gonna lie on a sunny beach with umbrella drinks?
I know some people who are spending it in Jamaica and another lot who are going to Morocco for 10 days away from it all. I would too but Xmas is a cruicial time for me and business and I am working throughout the holidays. In fact a number of people I know, usually singles or those without children or those whose children have flown the coup are choosing that. Me? Come end of January I'm taking myself off to the Maldives for two weeks. I'm gonna need it badly.
We were on a cruise once in the Bahamas during Xmas. It was great until some idiot got the idea to start singing Xmas carols in the hallways! Please!
It was a great experience not only because it was very warm there (I got to snorkle for the first time), but because the vast majority of the people on the cruise were NOT into Xmas at all, which was such a relief to me.
I've always wanted to go to Cuba. It holds a certain allure to me for some reasons... The poor hot and repressed at the same time people, the music, the melancholy, the beauty, the despair... Besides, everybody says their beaches are the best in the Caribbean region. Have you read this book - Amazon.com: Cuba And The Night: Pico Iyer: Books ?
If I renew my other passport I can go. Actually, you can go on a US passport, too, if you really want to. Castro doesn't like to turn away visitors and doesn't stamp them. It's not a good idea to be on a Canadian flight, though. I was reading about such a flight that had to do an emergency landing in Miami and 2/3 of the passengers were US citizens. In this case you're in big poop trouble...
No I have never read the book, but met a lot of Americans there. They usually come via Canada or I think Mexico. Havana is quite a city but there is so much more to Cuba other than Havana. The people are so resilient, warm and welcoming. The food can be soso, but only because they lack some of the ingredients. A lot centres around pork. I met some very interesting people and looking forward to going back there again. Watch out for the men. Some of them will do anything to be able to come to America.....
No I have never read the book, but met a lot of Americans there. They usually come via Canada or I think Mexico. Havana is quite a city but there is so much more to Cuba other than Havana. The people are so resilient, warm and welcoming. The food can be soso, but only because they lack some of the ingredients. A lot centres around pork. I met some very interesting people and looking forward to going back there again. Watch out for the men.
I bet. There were day trips out of Cancun, but I didn't dare go on a US passport. At least from Mexico you don't have to worry about emergency landings in the US.
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Some of them will do anything to be able to come to America.....
When you don't know something you do tend to idealize it...
I haven't been able to take off to someplace warm or different, but I have said "heck with it all" and just not done Christmas. No tree, no decorations, not even presents. I'll stuff a couple dollars in a card for my brothers and call it good. I just don't have that jolly spirit and infinite credit card spending limit to keep up with the rat race. Or the desire to do so.
And guess what... When you take all the consumerism out of the holiday... it becomes a better holiday.
Yes, that is why I go away....and one more thing I'd like to add...while I know that most of us run here and run there to appease parents and grandparents over Christmas...let it be known, that our lives are short, and we don't have to live up to the expectations of others...once in a while, it's ok to divert and do our own thing. The best Christmas Holidays I've ever spent were when it was mundance, and I broke away from the commercialism of it all....
It's absolutely nuts, to do what we do over Christmas. I mean, if you like decorations, baking cookies, that's one thing, but this gift giving...well, to me, Christmas was invented simply so we all go out there and buy, buy, buy.... So, for me, Christmas this year will be with family...but next year, I'm saving to go back to the island. You wanna talk about getting close to God, I tell you true, I stayed in a cottage 50 ft. for the Caribbean...and watched the sunrise and sunset over this placid sea, which looked like an endless lake, full of many colors of blues, light greens, gold....and it was then, I knew I was home.
My girlfriend tells me stories of when they're kids were young, they used to rent a cabin at Christmas, put up a real tree that they had cut down and made home made decorations, went sledding, played in the snow together...she says, they were the best Christmas memories...the gift is, being together and being happy.
This past Thanksgiving, my younger sister called my older sister and said, they were going to friends to celebrate this year. My older sister called me and told me, and I said, so what! We're getting to old, like is getting short, to live up to the expectations of what everyone else thinks we should do with our lives.
This morning my brother suggested we all go to Dubai next year for xmas it's quite a popular destination over xmas but I could think of other places I'd like to go.
I will be with my family for X Mas, but the morning after i'm flying to TX to get away for a while. Going to be there for 9 days which means ill be gone on New Years Eve. Im going with my best friend, which leaves my other friends and family at home. Will be interesting.
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it's quite a popular destination over xmas but I could think of other places I'd like to go.
