After the weekend’s trauma I am ready to deep six Halloween and jump straight into Christmas. I have a holiday jazz internet radio station playing as I speak. I had to run out and get the first of the season Starbucks’ red cup the other day and DH and I have been plotting this year’s lights fusillade on the porch for the past couple days. We’ll put up the porch stuff early but I’m dragging out all the Thanksgiving-themed and fall-emblem-laden stuff for exclusive use until Thanksgiving actually comes. Christmas for me really begins the second the last morsel of the first round of Thanksgiving dinner has gone down the hatch, so we’ll put up the tree after dinner and launch into it then. But until that moment, I’m plotting, buying crap, and putting up Thanksgiving-themed stuff everywhere.
Chestnuts roasted by a2stylee @ 11/06/2009 7:36 AM
@ UK MATT: I feel your pain. Without Thanksgiving or any other celebration between Halloween and Christmas, it’s very easy to start one’s own personal Christmas season way too early. Otherwise, one could run out of Christmas spirit way too soon.
I’m way excited for Christmas, but I won’t allow myself to listen to Christmas music or start watching Christmas movies before the last week of November. Also, I really need to take down the last Halloween decorations still up and pack them away.
Chestnuts roasted by Kapprika @ 11/06/2009 8:21 AM
Yesterday at Target I saw that they have, I swear this is real, a Peanuts nativity… complete with Woodstock as Jesus! Holy crap. Cute, yet somehow wrong at the same time. $24.99 seemed a bit steep, but I have a feeling I will own it once the price drops.
Chestnuts roasted by Jon @ 11/06/2009 9:03 AM
OK, Ultimate survey question! (You don’t have to answer if it’s too early for you).
When the time comes, what is your annual tradition which defines the beginning of the Christmas season?
For me, I wait until I’m alone, and it’s a cool or cold day. I have to have several hours of quiet and peace, and I put on the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack and listen all the way through. I then start to decorate. This will be about Nov. 28th? I think. Anyone else?
Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws @ 11/06/2009 9:25 AM
Cameron T: Agreed- I like to get one holiday over with before I start getting excited about the next (though I admit, I have already started buying Christmas gifts- that’s only to save myself some stress later, though).
Jamesebee: I prefer to make my own eggnog, using an old tried and true recipe from an ancient Trader Vic’s bartending book that used to belong to my father. I can’t recall having ever sampled anything store-bought.
Jotenks: Better yet, Christmas Evil or Silent Night, Deadly night (ridiculous as those movie titles sound, I am somewhat embarassed to admit that they do in fact exist).
Hazzard: Whenever I would see Christmas decorations alongside the Halloween stuff in stores, I would become inexplicably filled with rage.
Andy: Dollar Tree had an amazingly cool selection of Halloween goods. Me and a friend spent like $20 there and got enough shit to completely decorate her house for the party we had. They really outdid themselves this year.
a2stylee: Oh man, jazzy Christmas music is my favorite kind. I can’t wait to dig out my Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown and Big Band Christmas CDs.
Chestnuts roasted by Cheetara @ 11/06/2009 9:26 AM
Terror Claws: For me, I think it’s when I first listen to a holiday CD in the car, especially Vince Guaraldi.
Chestnuts roasted by Cheetara @ 11/06/2009 9:28 AM
Cheetara-Yes,Silent Night,Deadly Night,does infact,exist.Thanx for reminding me of that movie(it has been sooo very long since I’ve seen it).Terror Claws-I like to play a few old school video games,then throw on some Christmas toons while me and the woman decorate the tree and apartment.There’s just something about the wind howling outside with the tunes on on seeing all the nicely wrapped presents under the tree.Although,I have to say that I will wait until after Thanksgiving.Pilgrims and elves just don’t mix
Chestnuts roasted by MysteryD8 @ 11/06/2009 9:53 AM
I saw the Christmas aisle at CVS yesterday and I’ll admit, I started to feel it. The Christmas Carol touring train also helped (though the first half of the train smelled like diaper).
My mother in law has absolutely ruined Thanksgiving AND Christmas for me…4 years running now. She started in on us two weeks before Halloween. Trying to pin us down to dates AND times we will be visiting. We wanted to “do our own thing” with a turkey and pjs. That’s not acceptable, I guess. These next few months I just want to go away as quickly as possible. I hate “Guilt Visits”. I wish I had a job like, ER doc, tow truck driver, etc. Where I HAD to work the actual DAY OF Thanksgiving/Xmas.
Chestnuts roasted by JllS @ 11/06/2009 9:58 AM
This is my favorite blog title ever. Well played, X-E Matt.
I know it’s the Christmas season when we take my mother-in-law out and get her drunk on margaritas, then buy Christmas ornaments. Every ornament is a precious memory of the time she got drunk on margaritas.
Christmas time is buzzing in my skull. I ordinarily mourn Halloween, but this year is going to be outright Christmas. Sorry, Thanksgiving folk. But for me, November is the time to entrench yourself before the Christmas blitz begins. Although, no major decorating until after Thanksgiving.
Chestnuts roasted by PlantMonster @ 11/06/2009 10:25 AM
Nothing to do with the holidays, but yesterday a co-worker sent out an email to all women in our office asking if we’d like to see the new Twilight movie as a group. My response? “Sorry, I’ll be too busy hating Twilight.”
I think they all hate me now. Luckily I don’t really care.
Chestnuts roasted by Cheetara @ 11/06/2009 10:47 AM
I kindof miss the Advert Calendar, what ever happened to that? I don’t think it’s been seen since 2004, and I really love Christmas commercials and ads.
I know a lot of people are strict “After Thanksgiving” only people, but I just can’t help it. I’ll be lucky if I can last another week before we get a tree. This is my absolute favorite time of the year.
Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 11/06/2009 10:59 AM
Yo, Matt, have you seen the Christmas Dots yet? My husband and I ruined our dinner with a large box last night. They’re red and green w/white tops. The flavours are cherry w/vanilla and lime w/vanilla. Pretty damned delicious.
Chestnuts roasted by DasTeufulNagatier @ 11/06/2009 11:15 AM
My favourite christmas memory was the day after thanksgiving my mom and i would go cut a christmas tree and have fries and slushies at Dairy Queen afterwards. She passed away four years ago and I don’t get a tree anymore. Both thanksgiving and christmas just don’t mean anything to me anymore.
Chestnuts roasted by DasTeufulNagatier @ 11/06/2009 11:18 AM
I’ll get french fries and slushies with you at DQ, DasTeufulNagatier! Come to Eastern Massachusetts and we’ll head up to New Hampshire and find a real nice tree!
Seriously though, I always had good memories cutting down the Christmas tree as well. How quickly those years fade away . . .
Chestnuts roasted by wroclawski @ 11/06/2009 11:37 AM
As much as I enjoyed Halloween this year, I’m looking forward to the year’s remaining holidays. I took down my Halloween decorations on Monday and put up my Thanksgiving stuff. I love Thanksgiving as much as Christmas, so while I might watch the odd Christmas special in November (I have so many holiday DVDs, I can’t fit them all into 25 days anymore), the actual decorating will wait until after Turkey Day and I clean my apartment.
Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 11/06/2009 11:48 AM
This holiday season is a wash for me, really. It’s tragic. I’ve had to spend all October working every possible minute in order to finance my education and living expenses back in Poland. Add to this I’ve had to try to find time to write, edit, and polish my book of poetry which is simultaneously going to be published and serve as my MA project, and that’s not all, the poems are in three different languages, so I need to go to three different advisors in three different countries . . .
And I’m getting married.
Maybe next year will be easier.
Chestnuts roasted by wroclawski @ 11/06/2009 12:08 PM
The good thing about the Christmas season starting is that my Keurig coffee maker decided to break down at the right time, those suckers are available everywhere at the moment. The little rubber ring thing that secures the needle and water line broke and there’s no way of fixing it. D: I get the feeling that the “My K-Cup” thing is useless and that I should just stick to using K-Cup pods so this doesn’t happen again.
Chestnuts roasted by Palmerholic @ 11/06/2009 12:35 PM
The real question is, after X-E’s Halloween theme comes down will Matt go back to standard X-E, put up Christmas X-E early, or go old school X-E and put together a Thanksgiving theme (as seen here http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0845/).
I hope for a Thanksgiving theme all the way! I can’t wait to start reading me some of the parade reviews! Year after year they never get old. The MOTU floats and the year with Joey Lawrence and that clown are the best!
Chestnuts roasted by drew do @ 11/06/2009 12:35 PM
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After the weekend’s trauma I am ready to deep six Halloween and jump straight into Christmas. I have a holiday jazz internet radio station playing as I speak. I had to run out and get the first of the season Starbucks’ red cup the other day and DH and I have been plotting this year’s lights fusillade on the porch for the past couple days. We’ll put up the porch stuff early but I’m dragging out all the Thanksgiving-themed and fall-emblem-laden stuff for exclusive use until Thanksgiving actually comes. Christmas for me really begins the second the last morsel of the first round of Thanksgiving dinner has gone down the hatch, so we’ll put up the tree after dinner and launch into it then. But until that moment, I’m plotting, buying crap, and putting up Thanksgiving-themed stuff everywhere.