Don't listen to him, Brigitte. I say turn them on right now.
:D

If you turn them on before Thanksgiving, Gemini Cricket will die an early and painful death.

I say add some inflatable shenanigans, too. Snow globe with the snowmen on the inside, big santa coming out of a chimney...
:D

There is one office here that houses four people. It's an office built for two. And it's soooo loud in there all the time. It travels all over the rest of the office. If they don't shut up soon, I'm going to fill their mouths with spackle.

:D

That, my friend, is karma for encouraging Christmas before Thanksgiving!

It would be if they were singing Christmas carols...
lol!

This is such a loooooong day. I'm tired and depressed and hungry and antcy all at the same time...
Is it 6 yet?

To be honest, and this isn't exactly "like me" - but I'm in the mood to have the holidays start early this year. It's been a strange few months and I'm ready to at least fake myself out into thinking about "holiday spirit." I'm ready for shiny little lights and obnoxiously early music. I'm making the gingerbread lattes and grateful for each waft of sweetness that passes my nose. I'm ready to smell turkeys and hams, mashed potatoes and at least three kinds of pie. Gimme stuffing! Gimme cranberries! Give me anything, damn it! Anything but more school work and the same-old same-old. Just this once.

It's really not because we want it to be Christmas. We have plans the next 2 weekends and by then it'll likely be too snowy and icy outside to put them up. They are also the obnoxious kind that play music and each zone blinks independently with the music ;)

But I really don't want them on until after Thanksgiving, we just had them on last night to make sure they worked. They're off now, I promise.

Oh man! Even I was looking at the canned cranberries and thinking 'Oh, we should have those out, even if no one eats them....'

Which is funny because I've been thinking of having an 'anti-Christmas'. I'm tired of it being about gifts, we don't need anything {except to pay bills}. I have been thinking instead of encouraging the spirit of Christmas, rather than the spirit of giving gifts.

I want to spend time with family and friends. Making cookies, doing crafts, sharing time with people. We've been so busy, having said too many times 'Oh I wish we had time to spend with so and so, we haven't seen so and so in ages...etc.'

I have been thinking that we shall try and watch a movie every night, those who want to watch can {last year everyone was eager to watch together} and those who don't, no pressure.

I need to find my X-mas cd {complete with a snowy picture of Yosemite etched on to it}.

I think I need to do my best to bring the family together as everyone is so busy.

I LOVE lights. I even set them up inside of my house.

I like the sound of that MW!!