I am having a lazy day today. I woke up at 8:30 and took time to get going. After a shower I was ready to face the world. I received a very welcome phone call from my mom and it was nice to catch up about the family in SA.
Unlike the warm weather in SA, it's icy cold here and the frost doesn't look like shifting in a hurry.
It is rapidly approaching Christmas and tomorrow is the 1st December. I hope you are planning a good time. I expect many will be "cutting back" after the excess we have seen in previous years. This is not a bad thing. For too long we (the 1st world) have squandered our wealth. Investing in a "throw away" lifestyle. Never building a tomorrow but living to the "max". The carousel stopped turning but for some there are no other rides. Many are going to suffer this Christmas and I believe it will be worse in 2009. As I have budgeted and planned for the reminder of the year I have prepared my family for drastic reductions in all areas.
I support a group providing food parcels to pensioners in Zimbabwe and I am saddened and concerned about the plight of these poor people hanging on to life whilst the country leadership quarrel about who sits where at the banquet of political power. Read this November report.
You can support the work directly, if you prefer I am collecting money in the UK and will arrange payment.
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The future in the financial realm is looking pretty bleak at the moment, I was just telling Daryl this afternoon that my shopping is costing me as much as 30% more than it did about a year and a half ago, and it is not really extravagent shopping!
However, no matter how dark the outlook on the financial front, the joy that my children bring me grows exponentially with each passing day- and I suppose that all that this goes to show is that we just have to focus our attention on the things things that bring us real happiness. And christmas this year is going to be a testament to that- no gifts- but lots of family!
Hear, Hear, Amy. I will raise my glass to that.
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