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Bridal Lingerie Considerations
U've seen thousands of photos, tried on dozens of gowns. But you may have missed some small items in your search for the perfect wedding-day look -- those essential unmentionables that go under the dress. Undergarments provide the foundation...
Christmas And Holiday Party Fashion Tips
Have you given any thought to what you are going to wear to the holiday parties this year?
An invitation to a special Christmas or New Year's Eve party can strike fear in the hearts of the most fashion-conscious among us - to say nothing of the...
Let Your Children Name the New Baby
Choosing a baby name is an important job, so make your children feel important by letting them help you name the new baby. After all, you're not the only one who's having a baby - your whole family is ! Use the process of naming the baby as an...
Secrets Of Happy Moms
Have you ever noticed how some Moms seem to be very contented and confident in their role as Mothers, and others seem chronically stressed and approaching burnout? Why are some Moms unflappable and able to keep their sense of humor, while others...
The Budget Fashionista's Top Ten Budget Shopping Tips
Lots of people ask me for my top budget tips. Here are a few from my Budget Shopping Arsenal... 1. Know what looks good on you . This is the essence of a true fashionista. Just because it looks great in a magazine doesn’t mean it will look great...
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It's Raining this Morning
It’s raining! I woke up this morning and it was raining, not a startling fact in itself but for a brief instant my life flashed up strong as if viewable on a giant TV screen on the ceiling above my head! It’s raining, it’s 7.30am, my wife and baby are asleep beside me and I have everything that I or anybody else could possibly want in life.
In fact a large purplish stamp should be embedded upon my forehead that reads “this man is satisfied”!
I have a brand new high capacity MP3 player to play the thousands of songs that I have downloaded from the web on my super duper new self-built computer, with the flat screen panel that is just so cool! We have our dream cars parked in our garage below, the kitchen is being remodeled next week and we have a holiday home in Spain! I am fit, healthy and good looking, promotion at work is on its way and the enormous salary raise will ensure that my bank manager offers me coffee and biscuits when I visit.
Yet it’s raining outside!
As I look at my son, his face so innocent and pure; as I look at my beautiful wife who brought this magical being into the world I can hear ever stronger the pitter patter of the rain as it lands on the roof above! As I look at my family I can no longer see the material possessions and wealth that I have accumulated over the years, they have no place and no meaning; not right here, not right now!
Take away my possessions and give to me a gramophone, a bicycle and a coal fire! Take away my computer; a game of monopoly will fill that gap. I don’t need promotion, my bank manager is an idiot and coffee is bad for the health. Take away everything I have in material wealth, everything that I need and want is here in this bed with me. Take away all of those plastic beeping and flashing machines that mean so little when I have the most wonderful of feelings imaginable, that of love! That is all I need!
It has stopped raining now,
somebody has turned off that giant TV screen that was only moments ago hovering over the bed! The sun is shining in the sky, the radio has come on with some gentle morning music and the auto start percolator in the kitchen is sending fresh smells of coffee wafting up the stairs. It has stopped raining and normality has returned, with it has come sense and sensibility, understanding that unless I keep up with the world I will never be able to give my son the future that he deserves! I have to be the same as everyone else outside in the big wide world. I have to be fashionable and trendy, to have what others have and not to be an outcast or to fall by the wayside.
Soon my son will start to crawl. Then he will walk. Then he will want to be fashionable, to fit in and be like all the other children of his age! He will want to have beeping and squeaking toys; he’ll need to be connected, to have an email address and to have the latest Nokia phone at his side. He’ll scream unless he can wear baggy trousers that seem so ugly yet are so ‘in’, he will cry unless he can have a game boy, watch TV, listen to his MP3 and he will want all that is at the height of fashionable materialism of those his age!
It has stopped raining and I have everything. I have a wonderful family whom I love with my heart and my soul. But I also have the latest in digital technology, membership at the smartest health club in town, a motorbike of mean proportions and a gardener to do the weeding! I also have a ten speed lawnmower (the next door neighbor still has the older 8 speed model) a pension fund and a platinum American express card!!
My wife hates Monopoly anyway!
About the Author
Author and Webmaster of Seamania. As a Chief Engineer in the Merchant Navy he has sailed the world for fifteen years. Now living in Taiwan he writes about cultures across the globe and life as he sees it.
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