It's not that I'm a Grinch about the holidays, I do prepare for them, eventually, it's just that my inner need for order would like specific non-retail driven guidelines and a day on when decorating and general holiday-ness should commence.
More specifically, I'd like to be informed when that day arrives, as it seems it occured during lunch yesterday, and, I didn't get the memo.
When I left work around 11:00 am yesterday, it was simply "Fall". By the time I finished eating turkey and dressing in a miniature chair at The Preschooler Formerly Known as Busy Baby's school Thanksgiving feast, it was "The Holidays".
Actually, I began to get suspicious in the buffet line when I had the first sighting of "Annoying Buffet Line Person". Memo to that person: It's turkey. It's sliced and on a platter. It doesn't do anything else. The decision goes something like this: [SELECT Name="turkey" quantity="1" ELSE Move.on (!)]
There were public decorations all over town that had gone up while I was inside, the traffic had taken a notable shift toward the ugly and the Target parking lot was full.
However, if there was an Official Beginning of the Holiday Season® , I guess Old Navy would make an annoying ad, anyway.
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For my husband's family, no holday decorations could go up until after Dec 12th - his sister's birthday.
Now that we have kids and she lives in TX, we get all crazy and decorate anythime after Thanksgiving, whenever it works for our schedule. My mother-in-law decorates whenever my girls are available to come over and be her minions.
That said, there are decorations at the bases of the electrical poles in town, just waiting to be put up, as I type.
I was in that same buffet line yesterday. Except that I was starving and Henry was doing jumping jacks next to me (while waiting for a plate full of food he wouldn't eat) so I killed the dawdler. And everyone applauded. The end.
Here's the rule:
"The official start of the Christmas season shall begin when Sant Claus appears on his sleigh at the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade."
and it goes on:
"This seasonal start shall be timed to the particular time zone of said observers of Santa."
Christmas decorations are not appropriate, nor should be displayed before this time. Holiday sweaters are never appropriate for anyone over the age of ten.
It's officially the holidays when everyone else has decorated except you!
The Holidays begin when Starbucks switches to their red cups. Silly lady.
Wait a minute..... wasn't it Christmas just a couple months ago? What do you mean it's November already???!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Motorcycle will not commence the holiday decorating until the last of the Turkey has been consumed. I expect him to begin bright & early Saturday morning. I think everyone (including Target) should wait until the day after Turkey to begin the great Holiday Shop-A-Thon - however I reserve the right to start my shopping in August. Additionally I would like my neighbors with the giant inflatable santa to please put it back where it came from - I'll help.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I also forgot to mention we have a local radio station that has been playing only Christmas music for at least a week. If you have time (I crack myself up) you should see their website and behold in its Christmasy ickiness.
http://www.wlte.com/
yenno, I usually start decorating the day or two after Thanksgiving, and I think my mother caused that neurosis on me. This year, I'm just not feelin' it!