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One more morning to sleep in

I like Thursdays. It may not be Friday, but It’s really the closest thing to it.
Thursday means only one more early morning.
With only one early morning left, it sure seems like easy sliding into the weekend.

Just had a brilliant idea for a xmas cocktail party. If agrees, I can funnel my seemigly impotent creative energies into it. I have actually started to do this anyway.

I don’t care if it isn’t Thanksgiving yet, I’m starting my Xmas early.

I used to be semi at odds with Halloween and Christmas. I adore Halloween. Many fellow Halloween lovers quite echew Christmas, seeing it as a dualistic argument: If you like Halloween, Christmas is your enemy.
This no doubt comes from the fact that when Halloween ends (sniff, nothing sadder than Nov. 1), Christmas quickly replaces it in stores (and sometimes before Oct. 31). So Christmas is an easy target for my fellow dour Halloween lovers. Plus all the saccharine Jean Tisdales love Christmas, which doesn’t help.

Well, I don’t care who knows it. I love Christmas and that’s that. I aslo choose to call it Christmas even though I’m an atheist. I’m not frightened by Christ. I also like Xmas as an abbreviation (but that’s because I like the letter X).

I’m rambling without a point here, which I suppose is the point of a Journal, so I won’t apologize.

So There.

Oh, Yeah. Xmas can be just as dark and naughty as Halloween. Just because the fluffy headed ones like their angels on Christmas doesn’t mean it has to be fluffy headed. Me? I have Black Peter, Ruprecht, and Good Ol’ Krampus. Stuff their stupid angels.

44 Replies to “One more morning to sleep in”

  2. I love Christmas. I love everything about it. I don’t care that it is a christian holiday. I love the trappings, the music, the cooking, the shopping, the giving and getting.

    **bounce bounce bounce**

    And since I’m an equal opportunity smoocher, and Heather already got one: **SMOOCH**

    Happy Almost Christmas!

    Heh, now you done pushed my holiday giddy button.

    :-p

  3. I love Halloween and Christmas, we go all out decorating for both. I go back and forth between calling it Yule or Christmas. The Grinch is our tree-topper, normally.

  4. Oh, I love Thanksgiving too (even with the whole Indian genocide thing).

    Of course, I view Christmas as a secular holiday as well since it is too me.

    Put it that way, all holidays are secular to me… Hmmm 😀

  5. I called it Yule for a while. I do like that — I love “Yuletide.” That word just gives me a Philological hard-on (excuse the rudeness).

    I like a Star as a tree-topper, since one faith/belief really can’t claim a star (try as it might; Stars remain pagan despite Bethleham). Plus I really like the image of a star.

    When we were poor (as we are now 😉 ) we would cut stars & crescent moons out of cardboard (usually 12-pack boxes), collect foliage (ivy, leaves, sycamore gumballs) and spray the lot silver and gold. We’d use the gold ivy as garland and the other bits as ornaments. Really looked sharp, natural and was cheap as old chips.

  6. I just had a fantastic party idea, taken from, of course, a simpsons episode!

    I think it’s more of a summer thing, but a party with a religious bent (come as your favorite made-up saint, pagan god, etc.) could be fun. I would, of course, be Elvis Christ. Old and tattered, but has to be done.

  8. was going to pout ’till I got one from you and I didn’t even have to! Hooray **Smoochies** back.

    Yeah, I need a little Christmas, right this very MINUTE.

    Oh! Heather! Put “Auntie Mame” on our DVD/VHS library list!

    Holidays are a’ comin’!

    😀

  9. Funny you should mention that, as the Chieftans christmas CD, (Which I haven’t listened to in forfuckingever,) is in heavy rotation in our car’s CD changer.

    Oh, the Wren, oh the Wren,
    Is the king of all birds,
    On St. Steven’s Day,
    He got caught in the firs…

    On the Halloween tip, I thought that being a parent would take away all the fun shit on Halloween. Well, I don’t run around like a fiend, anymore, but dressing the kids up is a riot.

    And there is nothing that quite compares to the joy of scaring pubescent girls when they come up to the house to get candy. They just scream so well, and at the slightest provocation.

    Now if only I could get screaming pubescent girls to work in with Christmas somehow.

  11. That CD still gets heavy rotation at the holidays (though I’ve long passed the Celtic obsession phase). My favourite little bit is the end of the Christmas Boys part — right after “Piper through the meadow strayed,” you can hear an Irish woman’s voice say,

    “I hear it’s snowin’ outside. Is it snowin’?”

    I sure hope we have some snow this Christmas up here.

  16. Hey, I’ve got a big tent, she can come inside.

    She has to drop that whole “Virgin” nonsense though. We know it’s all BS. 😉

  18. Well you know, and I decorated kind of Nightmare Before Christmas style that last year, when we just added lights and ornaments to the bats. Oh, and we put a tin foil covered bat orbiting a tin foil star on the tree…
    So, in conclusion, I think you can quite easily meld the two holidays, and I also enjoy them both.

  23. Not available! I guess we’ll have to shell out the $8 or whatever it is. 😛

    We also need: Scrooged, A Christmas Story and Elf.

  24. When have I ever not agreed with an idea of yours for a party?

    I was thinking cocktail, but I’d love to brainstorm more exciting thoughts.

    I still want to have a Night and Day party in pjs with board games and Cole Porter.

  25. What, haven’t you joined my cult yet?

    or have you just not signed the murder-suicide pact… just sign and fax and you’ll get your welcome basket.

  26. Just a note, Danny Kaye singing Cole Porter’s “But Let’s not talk about love” is de bestest evAR!

    Lets? Let’s? short for Let Us, so I would think with the apostrophe… judges?

  28. You must read “The Battle for Christmas.” Very keen.

    I’ve deconstructed that Santa’s elves are the devil.

  30. I know what you mean about the Celtic thing, Right around the time “Lord of the Dance” got popular, I realized “Hmmm, I guess I DON’T like everything Celtic.”

    It really hit home that I was over it, when a friend tried to tell me how great the Dropkick Murphies and Flogging Molly were, and I was unenthused.

    Still a few trappings around though, in my art and some music.

    Oh, and it snows just about every year down here, (believe it or not.)

    See:

    And:

  33. I vote YES for the cocktail party. I want me one of them peppermint martinis. 😉

    You know, I actually like you for something other than your booze-mixing skills. Just promise to keep December 11 free for an early FESTIVUS celebration. =)

  34. That pretty red piece of Italian artwork is not mine, more’s the pity. That is a Ducati 916, one of, if not THE most gorgeous bikes in the world.

    Mine is the silver one (Suzuki SV650S) in the center of the bottom picture.

    Here is another pic of my ride up at Palomar Mountain.

    I like to go there every Sunday in the summertime. We call it “Going to church.”

  36. Colour me jealous.

    Of course I’ve never even been on one (save when I was 6 years old)…

    Still.

  37. Loads of fun and 40-50 mpg for my bike. Vicki’s wee bike gets over 60mpg.

    Crashing sucks though. The safety gear is neat, cause it makes you look like a fucking superhero.

  42. (originally thinking of having on 4th, but that’s too soon after tgiving, and the 18th will be when people have their work parties…)

    Poopie!

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