Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Scrooge

No matter which candidate you were rooting for, I think we can all breath a collective sigh of relief that the election is over. The madness is through. I may go into a little CNN Ticker withdrawal but I'll be alright. And you will too.


Santa Mall

Moving on. Let's talk about Christmas, shall we? My good friend Jacquelyn and her lovely troop of Daisy Girl Scouts are participating in a Christmas parade. The parade takes place in the perimeter of the local mall and is meant to welcome Santa Claus and his elves to the celebratory world of consumerism. What's the big deal, you ask? Why does this event even qualify for blog fodder? Well, the answer to this question has much less to do with the event itself than it does with the date of the event. The parade, you know, the one to welcome Santa Claus into his cardboard house in the climate controlled "North Pole" of the mall, is tomorrow night. Tomorrow is NOV. 6, a full 50 days before Christmas! That's 7 weeks people! Absurd.

Maybe I'm a closeted Ebenezer Scrooge but I feel like this tradition is ridiculous and should be changed. Maybe they can replace Santa and his sleigh with a perfectly prepared turkey dinner or some pilgrims, something, anything that represents a holiday within a reasonable proximity to November 6. Jacquelyn and the Daisy Girl Scouts of Troop 507, I love you all dearly but I must, on sheer principle, boycott this parade and all it stands for. Have fun ushering a fake Santa into consumer hell tomorrow night. I'll be thinking about you while I make my lowly assistant shovel coal into the wood burning stove.



9 comments:

  1. I completely agree! Did you ever read the blog about the people decorating for Halloween in aug!!! http://melnico.blogspot.com/2008/08/did-i-miss-something.html
    Pure craziness I tell ya!!!

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  2. we do go to the parade, but christmas decorations do not go up at the house until at least halftime of the cowboys game on thanksgiving day.

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  3. I still don't have the Halloween decorations put away and Santa Claus is coming to town? Oh help.

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  4. Forget Christmas. The question here: How long will our Obama/Biden signs stay in the yard?
    ;-)

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  5. When we were living in the 'transition house' while building our new home, the neighbor there had his Christmas Tree up ALL YEAR !! S.T.G., AND, it had FLASHING COLORED LIGHTS!!!! now, that is Christmas Spirit at it's absolute worst. I'll be holding off on putting out my plastic Baby Jesus surrounded by 3 wise men in red suits with long white beards and a stable full of reindeer munching on cookies in the manger, at least until after Turkey-day. I'm even thinking about taking up deer hunting again, just in case I could get a shot off at Dasher or, better yet Rudolph!!

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  6. Yep, I'm with you. But I have started my shopping....

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  7. My neighbor has Christmas lights up already. Okay, they were masquerading as "Halloween" lights, but I know the truth. Soon they will be Thanksgiving lights until they officially become Christmas lights. Do I have to look forward to Valentine's Day lights also? Put me in a top hat and call me Scrooge. I'm with you on this...

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  8. Hey, imagine my surprise when I clicked on Blogs on Face book and yours was the first one I saw. I gave you the top rating. I couldn't find you on FAcebook. Where are you and we can become friends!
    My blog is there now too.

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  9. I completely agree with you on this one. I didn't attend the parade either out of sheer principle. And I refuse to take the girls to the mall until after Thanksgiving because it's way too soon to start the Santa talk.

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