Simpler Times

I'm most likely that I've blogged about this theme before, after all I've been watching all kinds of stuff that refers to ages gone by over the last couple of years. So forgive me if I bore you! 2010 was a somewhat suburban year for me. I blogged quite a bit more and quite a bit better than I ever had previously, I didn't feel bored last year, well not a lot, I managed to make a lot of headway on getting my novel published, but looking back, besides the fact that it was the first year of marriage to my adorable husband I don't feel I've accomplished that much. Okay now I'm rambling, what I'm trying to convey is that I have been daydreaming, especially in times of high stress and boredom of simpler times, of living without internet, tv, mobile phones/android phones or the electric light bulb. You're probably reading this thinking, gods she's completely lost it! As much as I love my computer, cellphone, 50 inch TV (my hubbie's) and the information super highway (how else would I blog?) there are days when I crave the TOTAL silence of an electricity and plumbing free cabin in the woods. So on days when life is dull, when my day job is a drag and my brain is struggling to even make my feet follow each other, I daydream of a couple of acres with adjoining forest and a large lake where I have my dream home, imaginary kids and my husband hunts or works outside all day. In these daydreams I'm being very domestic, collecting eggs, milking goats, cooking, cleaning or washing. I imagine myself getting up early, working hard, eating well and sleeping well. In my dreams, my writing career has taken off and I can merely write from the comforts of my little peace of simplicity. I've completely decorated the wooden house, I've drawn it out time and time again. Today I started thinking that it might help me to write down a "diary" as if I were actually living that life, it might be fun to pretend I was living in simplicity. This got me thinking about shows I've been watching in the last couple of months, "Victorian Farm" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Farm and "Edwardian Farm" http://www.edwardianfarm.co.uk/ and how it seems they had a hard but happy life that didn't revolve around making money or getting things. Although I might be wrong, but to be honest, working to survive and enjoy the little you have together with the people you love, that's living in my book! Of course, I'm a hypocrit because saying that I also dream of caribbean beaches, cocktails and living in the lap of luxury. Oh well.. hehe, that's how complex I am! Watching those kind of things makes me interested in learning more about those time periods, reading more experiences of others who lived during that time. So I did what I usual do when I want a book, I went to Amazon, its my life saver to be honest, living in a non english speaking country I'm always wasting money on books in my native language, see what I mean about hypocritical? I found a book The Diary of a Farmer's Wife, which I've hastened to purchase... hehe... mass commercialist! I hope that it lets me pretend a bit more that I too am a hard working, satisfied, happy farmer's wife. That I too possess the grace and ability of that period. Hehe, well we can all dream can't we!