I was relaxing last night after a long day, (oh Hell, after a long week.) Anyway, I was enjoying my pedicure and foot massage. Ahhhhh. Just as I started to completely unwind, I heard THEM.
I recoiled in horror. I was suddenly in a 1000 agonizing knots.
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
CHRISTMAS CAROLS.
It’s not even Thanksgiving yet!
WTF???
Gahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
And then I heard them again at the Sephora store this morning. The salesclerk saw me grimace and said, “don’t you like Christmas?”
I said “I like Christmas very much, but I don’t like Christmas carols playing before it’s even Thanksgving. That’s just wrong. There should be a law against it. I’m calling Mayor Bloomberg.”
The clerk laughed hysterically.
Bah Humbug.
I can’t believe I’m saying that in November!
Hokay kids, I’m off to visit my Mom but will check in when I can. Like the birds, I always head South for the winter, (or at least during turkey week.)
Be back soon!
I hate that, too, NOT until after Thanksgiving. I saw my first Christmas commercial Oct. 18. At least it was for travel, so I guess I can give them a break but after Halloween, the Christmas sales commercial really start up.
Also, I’ve noticed QUITE a FEW bloggers with their Christmas templates up LAST WEEK.
Ugh.
I’m not decorating the blog for Christmas and I’ll be dipped if I’m going to start with the holly jolly crap except for my Christmas present orders that are starting. I don’t mind those, because I actually need the time to prepare them since my stuff’s handmade and I’m the only one doing it.
All around me tho? Piss off with the Christmas already.
I’m with you on the christmas carols in October. Enough already! Christmas season seems to last 3 months.
Enjoy your holiday with your family.
Safe travels! Happy Thanksgiving
I agree! I was lucky to find Halloween candy last month what with all the Christmas candy already in stock. One of my neighbors put up their lights yesterday. We don’t even have lights for this house since we just moved here & have been concentrating on other things. I’ve a feeling it’ll be like Christmas with the Kranks around here, and we’re the Kranks! LOL!
Safe travel & have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I don’t know what’s to be done about it. Certainly there are Christmas decorations popping out all over down here. I just pay them no mind. Happy Thanksgiving, LisaB. Farewell! Thanks for the sweet comment on my blog. Even us old dogs can learn a few new tricks from time to time.
I can’t stand hearing Christmas carols in stores or on the radio. Nothing wrong with the music except for the fact that i is absolutely awful to hear when you’re not in the mood to hear it.
Funny how in a country where freedom of and from religion is supposed to be in the Constitution, we can bombard everyone’s senses with overtly religious music without batting an eye just to sell a few more Xboxes & iPods.
Boy do I feel you! I don’t think I can handle it…that’s why I think I’m not going into a store until January.
Thanks for commenting on my page, glad to know you still stop by!
Maybe the people that have already started Christmas are the very same people who believe that you should keep Christmas in your heart and all through the year…of course, they’re also probably the same people with a prescription for a heavy dose of prozac. Lucky for them, Christmas is my favorite holiday so it doesnt bug me when it starts before Thanksgiving…LOL…anyways, Lisa…have a Happy Thanksgiving and a Very Merry Christmas!
Well, I would volunteer to mow the carolers down with an Uzi for ya, but I am gonna give them a Pasadena on this one.
Here is my theory:
Most of yer Pagan holidays are based on equinoxes and solstices. Ya got yer Halloween, which was probably when Druids shook down the local townspeople for autumnal equinox, and gang raped their daughters if they didn’t give a donation.
Christmas–which is based on Saturnalia–obviously commemorates the winter solstice.
Thanksgiving as we know it didn’t exist until Honest Abe declared it after the Civil War. If John Wilkes Booth would’ve just missed one SAG card payment, we probably wouldn’t even have it; because let’s face it, it is pretty lame.
So therefore I think you should be able to sing a Christmas carol after Halloween without fear of being pilloried in the village square.
(Just not in a closed elevator–that should still be a capital offense. Or at least a false imprisonment lawsuit…)
The Wife and I are in total agreement. Is it too much to ask to wait until Friday to start with the “official” Christmas season, including shopping, music, and anything else Christmasy. I’m getting tired of being hit up with it starting in September. I mean, I love Christmas and can get into the spirit of it, but not until I’ve had a belly full of turkey, mashed potatoes, and 3 kinds of pie.
Good for you, LisaB, let’s keep tradition and teach tradition not dictated by commercialism, which of course means. BUY SOMETHING!
Each to their own, but Thanksgiving will begin celebrating the Holiday that I love here.
Enjoy your family.
The only Christmas carol I like is AC/DC’s “Mistress for Xmas.”
I got scared to see xmas commercials and SANTA??? MAN GO AWAY SANTA!! You got to eat a lot first!
It’s terrible. I was in a store a few weeks agoand walked down an aisle… one side was Halloween crap and the other side was Christmas decorations. lol
Even worse, I think I heard my first one around Halloween. What the hell? And like I just said on another blog, if there was AT LEAST a good new one or two in the last ten years, but there hasnt been. The last good one was done by Mariah Carey. Of all people!
these days, well, you know, they want everything to happen yesterday. it’s for us to keep em worth waiting.
The best way to celebrate the season, in my opinion, is either a) remote tropical isle, or b) watch Bad Santa and/or The Hebrew Hammer while drinking mulled wine and savoring your evilest thoughts.
Works for me, anyway.
BAH HUMBUG indeed!!!! Maybe they’ll be saner down south………………maybe????
Enjoy your visit!
Lisa, if you’re anywhere near me, give a yell. I really hate hearing Christmas songs over and over and over again. I refuse to perform them too. I tell them, go buy the tape.Stick it in your eight track.
Bah humbug indeed! Have a nice trip! See ya on the flip-flop!
I heard the first one playing when I was out on the town on Saturday.. .in a CLUB!!! For F-sake!!!
If it isn’t the premature Christmas tunes, it’s the premature Christmas decorations!
Last night I noticed that one of our neighbors has already decorated their house and yard in an explosion of Christmas mania.
I used to work at Sephora and let me tell you what–their idea of Holiday Cheer is enough to choke Santa. I completely agree with you–no Christmas until after Turkey!
I spotted the first Christmas lights on my street the other night… and recoiled in horror. I’m with you, Lisa. Aren’t we force-fed enough of it after Turkey Day???
Aw hell… I don’t even like Christmas carols on the actual day. Dunno why… guess I’m a Scroogette. Nonetheless, THIS is one of my favorite days of the year! A happy Gobble Gobble to you, Ally da pup, yer mum and everyone!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving, Lisa! This year, we lucked out at the store and the boss just demanded the carols THIS WEEK! Last year, we got them on Nov. 1.
Call Bloomberg!!!
I worked at an accounting firm where they left the Christmas wreath up through July. But that was just stupidity.
I drove home from NJ today (Saturday) and was subjected to 5.5 hours of Christmas carols. I was ready to shoot myself.
you’re so right…they’re been playing christmas songs for a few weeks already. by the time Christmas comes I’ll be wanting to slit my wrists because I’ll be SO.FREAKIN.TIRED of that music!
You are absolutely right. There should be a ban on Christmas music being played before Dec. 24.
I heard my first one today on Q104.3. I figure it’s four days after Christmas, what the hell. Then I caught myself singing along. Help.
Haha! Try being stuck in macy’s during the holidays. My entire seven hour shift is filled with nothing but christmas carols and teeny bopper N’Sync and Mariah Carey holiday remixes. And it all started waaaay before T-Day.
And only today did I realize that it is not in fact, six days after Christmas, but six days after Thanksgiving. *sigh*
We still on for Sunday?