Jingle bells, jingle bells....

Ava Jarvis · Sep 24, 2007

You know how Christmas just kinda moves back year by year?

I was wandering into a drugstore over the weekend (got a cold

). My head was lightly throbbing as I passed by the aisle with all the Halloween costumes and the annoying talking skulls, and I thought nothing of it until I passed by something that said

"Ho Ho HO!"

Yes, there was a Christmas aisle. It had more stuff than the Halloween aisle.

I did one of those double-takes because I wasn't feeling all that well, and then decided to just grab the Nyquil and beat it home.

I'm scared to go back. Either it's really there or I'm having serious hallucinations.

jingle bells

PeeDee · Sep 24, 2007

See, people complain in disgust about it because it's gross commercialism, or something...

...I don't mind. Each year, when Christmas and Halloween bump back further and further, I'm happier and happier. I adore the time of year from mid-September, through New Year's. Absolutely go bonkers for it. So this year, when September 1st came around and Halloween aisles appeared, I was happy.

So I don't mind.

jennifer75 · Sep 24, 2007

BiG LoTs starts decorating in May. Really. It's sickening.

BenPanced · Sep 24, 2007

Yeah, Hallmark has their damned ornament collections up around July 4th every year.

And people wonder why I never shop there.

PeeDee · Sep 24, 2007

I really love this time of year, though...

Ava Jarvis · Sep 24, 2007

It will be a sign of the apocalypse, when they start playing Christmas muzak in July.

And people wonder why I go around with an iPod constantly in any store...

jennifer75 · Sep 24, 2007

Yesterday my mom brought out her "I bought them but I don't want them, do you?" ornaments for this year. Ick.

I did slightly feel the mood entering when she gave me a Gingerbread scented candle...I love scented candles, even more when they're sweet like that. It kind of throws you into the mood even when you're not ready.

CaroGirl · Sep 24, 2007

I be LOVIN' Christmas! Not the commercial aspects, mind you, but the hot chocolate, sledding, baking, tree decorating, carolling. I actually prefer to stay away from the mall anytime near Christmas. Crap! I guess I'd better start shopping pronto.

PeeDee · Sep 24, 2007

See, the Commercial aspects just fuel me getting in the mood. I don't buy much around Christmas time. I'm just a happy person. And Halloween! I wish we had two Halloweens! Love Halloween! I'm in THAT mood all year 'round!

CaroGirl · Sep 24, 2007

Yeah, I'm not so much into the Halloween. Bad memories. My dad was the guy who bought too little candy, turned off the lights at 8:30 and then chased the kids off the steps with a rolled up newspaper while I cringed inside the house in the dark. Eeps!

But husband and kids like it, so I'm dealing. Gimme Christmas, though!!

MidnightMuse · Sep 24, 2007

The only thing I do at Halloween is buy candy corn at a really good confectioners store - not that store-bought crap but the real thing - then I eat it all myself. I turn out the lights and pretend not to be home, so the little brats can go down the block to the Community Center and get all the free candy they want without all the car accidents.

Oh, and I have a great Halloween avatar for AW.

That's my Halloween extent. But I do love this time of year, Fall and all that.

rhymegirl · Sep 24, 2007

oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse-open-sleigh, hey, jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way....

cray · Sep 24, 2007

totidem_verbis · Sep 24, 2007

Ava Jarvis said:
It will be a sign of the apocalypse, when they start playing Christmas muzak in July.

It has already happened. The radio stations around my way have celebrated Christmas in July from time to time.

Deadbeat 007 · Sep 24, 2007

PeeDee said:
See, people complain in disgust about it because it's gross commercialism, or something...

...I don't mind. Each year, when Christmas and Halloween bump back further and further, I'm happier and happier. I adore the time of year from mid-September, through New Year's. Absolutely go bonkers for it. So this year, when September 1st came around and Halloween aisles appeared, I was happy.

So I don't mind.

Same here! I've had my Christmas season planned since the beginning of the year. I enjoy it so much.

PeeDee · Sep 24, 2007

Deadbeat 007 said:
Same here! I've had my Christmas season planned since the beginning of the year. I enjoy it so much.

I'm very Ray Bradbury about my holidays. This time of year, I love to go for walks and scrunch through leaves and enjoy the cold air and eat ripe apples off the neighbor's tree. Wintertime, I drink hot chocolate and enjoy being cold in brief periods, followed by nice and warm. We even have an electric fireplace.

I'm somewhere between Ray Bradbury and Calvin & Hobbes, I guess.

I get happy just thinking about it.

MidnightMuse · Sep 24, 2007

What a coincidence ! This time of year I love to rake leaves, and hide under the piles with a pellet gun, taking out the guy next door who tries to steal apples from my tree!

PeeDee · Sep 24, 2007

I forgot to mention this is also the time of year I dump all those poisonous spiders I've been nurturing into the pile of quivering leaves in my weirdo neighbor's yard.

Mud Dauber · Sep 24, 2007

PeeDee said:
I'm very Ray Bradbury about my holidays. This time of year, I love to go for walks and scrunch through leaves and enjoy the cold air and eat ripe apples off the neighbor's tree. Wintertime, I drink hot chocolate and enjoy being cold in brief periods, followed by nice and warm. We even have an electric fireplace.

I'm somewhere between Ray Bradbury and Calvin & Hobbes, I guess.

Sounds like you've got a dash of Norman Rockwell mixed in there, too.

MidnightMuse · Sep 24, 2007

AppleWar 2007

PeeDee · Sep 24, 2007

Mud Dauber said:
Sounds like you've got a dash of Norman Rockwell mixed in there, too.

Yeah, probably.

And Muse, of course I'm going to win that fight, because I have a lightsaber and you have a clumsy and inelegant weapon.

MidnightMuse · Sep 24, 2007

What makes you think you're the cat, Mr. Dee?

PeeDee · Sep 24, 2007

Well...duh. I'm not Agent Elrond over there.

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