Christmas proposal November 15, 2007 ~ 10:58 am
Posted by Julie in : Random Insanity, Story Time , trackbackI love Christmas as much as the next person. I love decorating for it, buying gifts for other people (I get a real rush from finding the perfect gift for someone), making things for people…I’m still a big kid about it. Especially this year, which will be Samang’s first Christmas. (I went out and bought her a “Baby’s First Christmas” Winnie the Pooh ornament Monday night. She likes it very much and wishes she could eat it.) I can hardly wait to see the look on her face when she sees the Christmas decorations and lights.
However, like I said yesterday, this whole “put the decorations up the day after Halloween” thing is a bit much. Seeing the runners stream under the garlands on the streets during the NYC marathon? Just wrong. I like Christmas decorations, I enjoy how they brighten up gloomy winter days and give us something beautiful to break up the long dark nights. But I would like to propose something: how about next year we put up the lights the day after Thanksgiving, like we have always done up until now, but we leave them up an extra month to make up for not having them in November? I dunno about you, but January depresses me. No festive holidays to look forward to, just cold and darkness. I think January needs brightening up a whole lot more than November does. Because really, November has Thanksgiving. You might not go all out decorating for it unless you live in my neighborhood (we’re Irish, we decorate for everything), but you’ve got it to look forward to. I do not look forward to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the same way. Perhaps because there’s no pumpkin pie.
Note: this late taking down of decorations has worked before. When I had a roommate and liked to annoy her in retaliation for all the shit she pulled on me, I left the decorations up until March one year. I simply told her that in my family we didn’t take the decorations down until Little Christmas. I then told her Little Christmas was in March. And she fell for it. Her gullibility led to a much brighter and happier winter for me, and her obsessive compulsive self had fits every time she walked into the house and saw our fake tree still up and lit. (I was going to say “everyone wins,” but really it was just me who was the winner. I’m okay with that.)
Comments
I so agree with you. I HATE all of this Christmas stuff in November. For Christ’s sake, Santa is already at the mall. Are you kidding?
I’m good with leaving decorations up a while after Christmas, but mostly because I’m lazy and who wants to take down strings of lights in the snow?
Some of my guy friends in college used to put up their tree at midnight on Halloween. Freaks.
And HA! You’re such a shit! little christmas in march!
ESC~Okay, now THAT is taking it a bit far. But then again, in college I left my Xmas lights up year round. They were a design element. That and my blacklight. And on Little Christmas in March? Dude, if she fell for that, it’s her own fault. She deserved it.
Vince~Are you kidding me? I thought the decorations were a bit much, but Santa? He’s not allowed to come onto the scene until the end of the Macy’s parade! (Also, laziness may have factored into my deciding that Little Christmas was in March. ;))
This former roommate of yours - if you kept the lights on through March, what other “family traditions” did you uphold as a bait to her OCD? Hilarious stuff, Julz.
Thanksgiving first then I’ll think about Christmas. Geez, they rush things!
Bah freaking Humbug.
I could be down with that. Especially if there is a clause (haha! Clause! I am so corny it hurts.) in there about pumpkin pie being eaten every day until Christmas is officially over.
Grace~Mmm…pumpkin pie. With Cool Whip Free. Mmmm.
Lisa~Them rushing means I have to rush - I hate going Christmas shopping after Black Friday. Which means I have to do shopping this weekend. Which is just too damned early. Bah.
Kendra~You might have known my former roommate, actually. She was my year at Small College on the Hill. And we will save roommate-baiting stories for another day. But there are a lot of them. I was not meant to have a roommate I wasn’t in a relationship with.
I’ve already got a Christmas present made and plotting some for next week. But I hand-make these ones so I have to start early or they never never get done.