I’m way ahead of all of you. I’m already celebrating Christmas 2009.
Chestnuts roasted by Jordan @ 11/09/2008 3:36 PM
RE: The earlier discussion of BW3s.
First, it is never a bad time for eating wings. Therefore it is perfectly acceptable to consume BW3s on consecutive days.
Second, and this is off on a bit of a tangent here, but am I the ONLY person in the world who cannot understand why “boneless buffalo wings” are labeled as such? I mean, it was never actually a part of a wing, right? So why do we call it one? Grrr. It is a breaded chunk of chicken, probably from the breast, that has been deep-fried and slathered in sauce. Tasty? Yes, of course. A wing? No, certainly not. OK, rant over.
Hope everyone is well.
Chestnuts roasted by TF @ 11/09/2008 3:46 PM
Personally, I’m kind of easing into Christmas. It doesn’t have to be totally-Christmas or not-Christmas-at-all. I’m not ready for Rudolph or Charlie Brown’s little tree just yet, but yesterday I watched Eight Crazy Nights, which isn’t fully a Christmas movie, and it felt right. And today I watched the Simpsons where Bart melts the Christmas tree, just because I had Season 9 out anyway. Right now I’m baking chocolate chip cookies and listening to the Nutcracker, but honestly I like Tchaikovsky all year long. Decorations and full-blown Christmas music will probably wait until Thanksgiving weekend, but I feel good about hot cocoa and Christmas Tree Cakes in November. To me it feels like Christmas has so much to offer that if I try to cram it all into one month it feels rushed and forced, instead of homey and nostalgic like it should.
Interestingly, my mom seems to be celebrating November by becoming a pie addict. We had banana cream last week and she’s bought a pumpkin pie for this week, and I have stuff to make strawberry pie in the freezer. I guess thoughts of Thanksgiving on the way make us want pie.
Ubik- You can also add the G.I. Joe Christmas episode, Cobra Claws are coming to town.
As for Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, I’ve only seen it on MST 3000. It’s funny when they say, She’s going to hit me over the head with a frying pan.” I liked it.
Ubik, I just remembered another one. The Mister Ed Thanksgiving episode. the one where Mister Ed tells Wilbur his own version of the first Thanksgiving.
Chestnuts roasted by LoneStar76 @ 11/09/2008 3:55 PM
Don’t forget two other Muppet Christmas specials: Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas and The Christmas Toy.
If you would like to combine Christmas with Halloween, you can always watch the following:
The Tales from the Crypt episode with the killer Santa.
The Tales from the Darkside episode called “Seasons of Belief”
The Silent Night, Deadly Night movie franchise
Jack Frost 1 and 2
Santa’s Sley
Black Christmas
Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 11/09/2008 4:25 PM
I suddenly have the urge to play Heatmiser adn Snowmisers songs. Theyr’e just so catchy.
Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 11/09/2008 4:59 PM
It is way too early for Christmas. I’ll be ready for Christmas November 28th.
Shuanfu, you seem to be confused…the proper expression is GO DAWGS!
I’m currently watching a pretty funny Thanksgiving episode of 3rd Rock From the Sun. There’s also at least one Simpsons Thanksgiving show. And, the best…the Thanksgiving episode of WKRP in Cincinnati. “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
Chestnuts roasted by Teddy Ray @ 11/09/2008 5:01 PM
I’ve been playing Native American Christmas music today…its Christmassy but not in an annoying way. And I’m hoping I’ll have enough money by the end of the month to buy the tacky purple Christmas tree that I love at Walmart.
My fiber optic one won’t last another Christmas with an active young cat – I adopted the foster cat I took in shortly before my old cat had to be put to sleep. She’s on the extremely hyper and oversensitive side, enough that she needs herbs to be ‘normal’, and the oversensitivity leads to sudden aggression so as a result she wasn’t very adoptable. But since we’ve been managing just fine and the adoption fee was ‘free’ because I’d fostered her for so long, I went ahead and signed the papers. She now needs a new collar and a Christmas stocking!
Chestnuts roasted by Moony @ 11/09/2008 5:11 PM
Moony: Bless you for showin such kindness to a critter in need of love. =)
Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 11/09/2008 5:25 PM
I’m so glad someone mentioned “Seasons of Belief”, I’ve been singing the Grither song since November first.
Chestnuts roasted by Lottie of Millhaven @ 11/09/2008 6:12 PM
Thanks. She used to belong to my neighbors, until they got tired of her and her sisters and literally just tossed them out the door one day. The building manager did what she could to get them to at least feed the cats, but to no avail. She’s the only survivor, and I took her in after she lived on my porch for a month before they took a long vacation in May. Of course she was pregnant, so I tried to give her to a rescue, but only one would even talk to me. I signed up as her foster home, and they spayed and vaccinated her, but it became obvious that she had a lot of issues. She’s a white cat with one golden brown and one blue eye, and after some research on my part she’s got nervous system, hearing, and visual problems. The vet I took her to the day I adopted her agreed. Fortunately the homeopathic remedy I already had for myself and my previous cat works for her.
She’s pretty sweet most of the time when she’s had her doses of Rescue Remedy, but when she hasn’t had it she can go for six hours straight without being still for more than a minute. The rescue wanted to take her and put her in a cage in a busy shop, or in a multi-cat household after she’d already shown cat aggression, but that would have been a disaster waiting to happen with all the stress. I didn’t want another cat so soon, but it was the best decision.
Whoa, hi Jazzy! I haven’t seen you around in a while.
I am torn on the subject of Christmas. I like Christmas and I like Christmas things, and I’ve been vaguely in the mood to put up my tree and listen to my Carpenters Christmas album, but I also don’t want to think about it at all yet. For God’s sake, it’s not even Thanksgiving yet. I don’t want to think about how I have to spend this Christmas without Daymon and I don’t want to think about how I can’t afford to buy anybody presents this year– again.
Annette: I keep sayin to hold off on Christmas until after Thanksgiving. That way Thanksgiving can shine and we won’t collapse from the holiday overlaod. But some places and people are bent on pushin Christmas early this year. What can ya do? =) P.S saw Saw V and LOVED it!
Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 11/09/2008 7:32 PM
So sad, I do not agree with this pushing of Christmas so soon. Here in OC. the day after Haloween, South Coast Plaza had already put up their Christmas decorations out front. That means they probably installed the big ass reindeer and ornaments on Halloween night so theycould be ready by morning. What would Linus say?
I figure the retailers are doing it early as a reaction to the poor economy.
I personally feel this urge to really live it up this Christmas, like it will be the last really good one for a while. Doesn’t give me any more money, but at least I can give my cat a good one and celebrate it with family. But I’m going to wait until after Thanksgiving at least (the day after, that is) to try and get that tree I want. I don’t have any extra money until then anyway.
Chestnuts roasted by Moony @ 11/09/2008 8:04 PM
Around Black Friday I start playing Mariah Carey’s ‘Merry Christmas’ and Robert Palmer’s ‘Ridin’ High’. Other than ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’, Robert’s album doesn’t have any Christmas tunes, but for some reason the collection of standards sort of fits the atmosphere and I think that Mariah’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ is a staple in anyone’s Christmas collection.
Chestnuts roasted by palmerholic @ 11/09/2008 8:15 PM
I just scored four boxes of Christmas Tree Cakes. Let the Gorging begin!
Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 11/09/2008 8:24 PM
I’ve got the Christmas Fever!!! I can’t wait to start decorating and bringing out all the Christmas specials! Every year, as soon as Halloween is over I am all about Christmas, but this year I am even more so as this is my baby girl’s first Christmas. The hubby has asked that I refrain from putting up the two Christmas trees, lights, and knicknacks until at least the day after Thanksgiving, but I think my whining to put them out early (like tomorrow) will wear him down eventually. I’m a really good whiner.
Chestnuts roasted by earthwormgoddess @ 11/09/2008 9:30 PM
Congratulations earthwormgoddess! Try not to bankrupt yourselves buying the baby all the presents you want for her!
Chestnuts roasted by Moony @ 11/09/2008 9:43 PM
Hey all, just found Sierra Mist Cranberry Splash at Target. It’s pretty tasty, but i’m wanting some Pomegranate 7-Up. I just contacted them via the website to see if they will make it again this year. Here’s hoping!!
Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws @ 11/09/2008 10:52 PM
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