Yesterday, while shopping for yarn to make my christmas presents with I got stuck in the Seasonal Aisle of Walmart. I was stuck there for a good twenty minutes, walking up and down the christmas aisle, staring at the vats of caramel corn, the tins of cookies, the multi packets of hot chocolate, and the abundance of chocolate in different forms. My favourite forms were the santa claus and of course the reindeer. This adventure down christmas aisle is not unusual, in fact it happens to me every time I go to Walmart. The unusual part is that thanksgiving hasn't even happened.
I started wearing my christmas socks back in August, have never even turned off my christmas music, and my christmas jammies have become by everyday jammies. I use my christmas mugs year round, eat candy canes whenever I can, and think about ornaments at least weekly. I love christmas and that fact that it draws nearer and nearer is making me incredibly excited. Not necessarily the day, considering my family can go from picture happy to world war three fighting in three seconds flat, but the entire cheery season. I've been christmas caroling, I read christmas books, I have a list of christmas movies that i am continuously adding to and arranging the order of.
My family has a particular way of putting up and decorating our tree. We normally have a fake plastic tree (which is NOT the same as a real tree) my younger brother sets it up (he's taller, no one else but by dad is able to do this job). I decorate the tree, it takes me a good amount of time and several walk arounds and standing at different angles in the room making sure it is perfect. I have even strung popcorn together and wrapped it around the tree, I go all out. My sister has the easiest job, she "Supervises" (similar to her idea of making dinner, i.e. Taco Bell).
So now, I am already for christmas, I'm so excited, my candy canes are open and are being eaten at a normally surprising rate, but the problem is that It's November. Thanksgiving isn't until the week before December. I have basically gotten ready for winter, but it feels like the middle of June (really, it was nearly 80* on monday).
In my hope to get everyone as excited I leave you with my all time favourite christmas song: Disco Christmas In Hamsterland.
