How far into summer are we?\u00c2\u00a0Three weeks? Two? I recall the first day of summer was not too long ago. I am planning my luau at the end of the month and figured I might get another one in maybe in September. These days it hardly gets cold in October really.<\/p>\n
I bought tons of tropical plants on sale in the last couple of weeks. I got a few things like table clothes and napkins at the stores.<\/p>\n
But I went to get more stuff I had seen at Party City last weekend, only to find the summer stuff shelves looked like communist Russia. I went to Big Lots to grab one of those awful tiki buckets to put a drink mix in, and, where did everything go? Where are the racks of tacky tiki crap? I went to Hobby Lobby and was eyeing the plastic foliage and wandering the aisles, hoping to get a “notion’ when I saw the culprit. Fall.<\/strong><\/em> Yes, the fall decor of scarecrows and autumn leaves now occupied\u00c2\u00a0three large aisles! I had freaking missed the\u00c2\u00a0two weeks of summer!<\/em> Fall is on us! I’ve barely finished off the hot dogs and chilli from the 4th of July!<\/p>\n Know what’s worse? Freakin’ Christmas crap is out too!<\/p>\n In this fubar world where the current fashions on the rack at Walmart look like what was on the rack (and I hated) in the 1970’s and I hear that 1980’s fashion is on the rise, I begin to wonder when current fashion will be<\/em> the fashion and what that will mean. Baggy skater pants? But they are still wearing that! And we start Fall and Winter fashions and decor\u00c2\u00a0two weeks into summer. What’s current is from the recent past and catching up and what is in the stores is for the future, months away. Good god, what is wrong with this world? They can’t think of things to sell us fast enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"