A Holiday Wish

My wife Vera has taken a real beating throughout the course of my blogs and she's been a real sport about it, so as my Christmas present to her I'm not going to talk about her this week.

My holiday wish for all of you is that you may have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing. Always want but never need. Let go of your attachments to what you've been trained to believe. Our attachments are the source of all our problems, the need to be right, to possess someone or something, to win at all costs. If we aren't attached to the outcome there is no failure only inner peace and success. Don't let your happiness or success be dependent on an attachment to any thing, any place and especially any person. Happiness is not something we receive from the world it is something we give to the world, so get out there and start giving.

On behalf of Vera, Adrian, Dana and myself I would like to wish you all a great holiday season and a Happy New Year filled with lots of fun, hugs, excitement, mystery, adventure, success, love and lack of attachment. HO HO HO

She wants to go to Disneyworld

She says, I want to take the kids to Disneyworld. I say, I'd rather go somewhere just you and I and relax. No I want to go to Disneyworld, she says. That's a great idea, that's exactly what I was thinking, I say.

Let's go in December, it's the slow time and apparently some of the line ups for the rides are only half an hour she says (wow, only half an hour, I wouldn't stand in a line for half an hour if the bank was giving away free money). She finds out we can buy a fast pass which gives us the right to walk for 2 kilometers to arrive at a ride 2 hours before we are going to board it so we can swipe our fast pass and return 2 hours later to board at a designated time (fast? convenient? hmm.....). I say, why don't we just get in line now with the great unwashed that didn't buy a fast pass and get this over with. She gave me that look and off we went merrily swiping the week away.

They way I see it, when you're a kid, everyday is like being in Disneyland. It's the parents that need the holiday. We work all year to feed, dress, undress, wipe off, medicate, educate and stimulate our kids, then we spend months scrimping and saving and planning how we can rescue the poor little inmates from their life of drudgery and we sweep them off to far away magical locations where we spend a week feeding, dressing, undressing, wiping off, medicating, educating, and stimulating them.

Maybe I'm missing something but, aren't holidays supposed to be a break from the routine of daily life????

The house is expanding and so is my wife.

Guys, if you are looking for something to spice up your marriage, try what I did. Get your wife pregnant, move her, your 5 year old kid and yourself into the basement of your house that has no kitchen facilities, create some makeshift walls with plastic vapour barrier, sleep on fold out canvas cots and hire some unreliable, cranky, smelly guys to rip the back wall off your house and add a rear addition plus completely gut and renovate the existing part of the house that you are living in.

Nothing says I love you like a bouquet of drywall dust and a box of construction debris.