Two more updates on the Advent Calendar -- December 18th features another Santa hotline commercial (this time for Mrs. Claus!), Kid Cuisine's Christmas-themed microwave dinners, and the ongoing struggles of Mista Snowman. On Decemeber 19th, Mare hits new lows while we sidebar with K-Mart and a ton of Christmas candy.
I got some e-mails over the weekend from readers wondering if the Calendar's actually going to get done on time. Well, YES -- because if it doesn't get done on time, I know I'll never do it at all. (see: last year) I do it at my own pace because I'll hate the results if I don't, but I think we're on target. Just a few more days to go...and good lord, I still have a shitload of Christmas crap I haven't even touched upon yet. To tell you the truth, the Playmobil side didn't seem that attractive to me when I started this year's calendar, but it's really grown on me. I hope Playmobil shits out a new one next year, because I'd hate for our story to end this Christmas.
Oh, here's our Christmas Tree. We picked out a much smaller one than last year's, but I think I like it even better. It's just so trashy and messy. We inherited like forty-thousand boxes of ornaments last winter, and while it's hard to really tell from the pics, the tree is literally saturated in ornaments. You can barely see the green. Kinda sucks that we bought it so late in the month, but whatever...it's not like I'll be taking it down before February, anyway.
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Posted by Matt on 12/22/2003. E-mail me!
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Santa, Paulie, and Bird, when there’s an avenging to be had, these three are on the case, and in your face! This is gonna be a X-Mas dream come true, with hockey sticks, amnesia, black birds o’doom, dogs wearing saddles, and some good old fashioned wrestling holds. Just save me a ringside for this holiday ham-and-egger, and I’ll bring the clown hammers.