I have a confession.
A dirty, terrible, embarrassing confession.
I listened to Christmas music the beginning of Thanksgiving week.
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| Home Alone (20th Century Fox) |
NO,
Not the day after Thanksgiving.
NO,
Not even Thanksgiving evening.
I blared "Holly Jolly Christmas" in my car after work and, with no remorse, summoned my inner Burl Ives and bellowed my deepest "It's the most wonderful time of the yeaauuuur"....
For once, I'm actually really REALLY excited for the holiday season.
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| Buy on Ebay here! |
I'm ready for the chaos and explosion of lights and tinsel and glitter that sends the old year off into a blaze of bedazzled, holly-covered glory. I'm excited for the local neighborhoods to be covered in clumps of Christmas lights and giant inflatable holiday characters. I'm thrilled at the idea of matching pajama sets and artificially flavored gingerbread things and giggling every time I decorate the tree with, A-HUH, "shiny balls."
The crazier thing? It's for no particular reason at all.
No travels, no big events, no special guests.
I think it may be that I didn't really get to experience much football cheer this year (yes, here in the south, it's a holiday season of it's own). Halloween, too, came and went so quickly I didn't have time to get excited about candy and costumes. I've got a backlog of festive vibes and I'm almost nervous I'll be a hurricane of garland and bells and pine-scented centerpieces, soaring through the starry sky in my velvet and fur-trimmed ensemble.
And for my longtime readers,you know I dread the holiday season.
I loathe the crowds and spectacles of mass consumerism and I'm really creeped out by mall Santas.
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| Scrooged (Paramount Pictures) |
I'm excited that John & I get to start our own holiday traditions and have our first Christmas as our own little family, thus beginning my downward spiral into the 10th level of Christmas insanity where I find Christmas sweaters with knitted scenes of snowmen and reindeer stylish.
I'm okay with it.
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| The Holiday (Columbia Universal Pictures) |
In other words, I'm going a little more Cindy Lou-Who over Scrooge this year.
BRACE YUH'SELVES.
Hugs & High Fives,
C
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, my dear darling Celia!
ReplyDelete(And I'll forgive the early Christmas music, but only because it's YOU.)
I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR TOOOOOOO!
ReplyDeleteFor no real reason. Other than last year I felt a little frustrated with lack of means (time AND money) and was left feeling like the whole bloody Most Wonderful Time of the Year lasted for about 25 seconds instead of 25 days.
This year, man? I'm going ALL-OUT. I'm going to tinsel the crap out of my house. People are going to be blinded by the sheer display of my tinselry. We're talking some real classy holiday revelry here. Category ten. We're talking wassail. We're talking mistletoe. We are talking FRANKINCENSE.
We are not talking Christmas music before Thanksgiving, because that crap is whack. Sorry, love. But I still adore and respect you. So you rock out with your Burl Ives out, lady. BE EARLY AND BE PROUD.
p.s. Have the happiest of Thanksgivings, lovely. Tell John that the crazy lady on the Internet wishes him a Happy Thanksgiving, too. Y'all are probably already coordinating your turkey-eating stretchy pants. And for that, I love you.