I went to the mall today. There were Christmas carols playing, all the decorations were up and small children were having their photo taken with Santa.
I did some shopping, though I didn’t manage to buy presents for anyone. I did find a great suit that I’ll wear tomorrow. After that, I walked outside and pulled my sunglasses out of my shorts pocket. That’s right, my shorts pocket.
It’s 73 degrees out there, sunny and beautiful. Now, I know this is great weather, but it doesn’t feel right for the time of year. It’s supposed to be chilly or downright cold. No snow yet, because we’re really too far south to ever get much of that, but some cold weather. I want to wear sweaters and coats. I want to pull out the fleece jacket and turn on the heat in my apartment, not the A/C. I want to need my down comforter, not kick it off in the middle of the night.
I can completely understand what you are feeling…Here in TX it’s a warm, sunny Sunday afternoon. Hubby is in there watching a football game, and even that looks a bit “off” It’s soo sunny there too. I love Christmas, but this year it feels strange.
It’s been uncomfortably warm and muggy the past couple of days, and last night it never dropped below 60.
That’s just not right. It’s after Thanksgiving, dammit! The ground should be frozen hard and the first serious snow should be falling. Certainly you shouldn’t hear CRICKETS CHIRPING!
…you hear the dogs barking “Jingle Bells” on the radio
…you get disgusted by the ads advertising dept. store sales
…they start pushing fruitcake and eggnog (something that NOBODY eats and NOBODY drinks)
…they show that old movie “ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE” around 200 times!
I live in Montreal, I wish it were 73 and sunny ALL WINTER.
I hate snow. I hate cold. I hate shovling snow in the cold.I can’t skate, I can,t ski. If only I were richer I’d move south in a blink. I want to lie on the beach and slowly get skin cancer. I don’t care, I’d be warm.
Excuse me while I go to my secret lab(basement) and design a giant anti-matter propulsion system so I can rotate the earth to give you folks some snow and me some sun.
BUHAHAHAHAAAHAHAAA…
I finally had to break down and light the furnace today, so I think of it as still early in the season. I guess the coming of Thanksgiving a week earlier than usual makes Christmas still seem far away. At least I hope so, based on the state of my shopping !
Oh its a sign of old age occurring , when you were a child christmas was good (though I never celebrated such tripe) these days its just hassle esp for atheists like me.
I took my doggies for a walk today and worked up a good sweat… and I was in shorts… and I had to turn the A/C on yesterday because it was too warm and stuffy in the house.
This is my first year in Florida, and to my body it still feels as if it’s just a little bit after Labor Day. I’ve got all the windows of the house open, ceiling fans running, trees still green, lawn still green. Even when I lived in southern New Mexico, it felt like Christmas – luminarias lining the sidewalks and outlining building roofs, a chill in the air at night. Here, though, it shouldn’t even feel like Thanksgiving!
Not a bit like Christmas (or even winter, for that matter) here, either. Tornadoes running rampant all day yesterday, weather today sunny and real summery.
I would like a wee bit of coolness here shortly. No, no frostbite cold or anything, but a little more seasonal.
It’s hard to build up the excitement to put up decorations and Christmas trees while dressed in shorts and tank tops.
Well, it feels like Christmas and boy am I ready. In years past, I’ve been annoyed that Christmas gets crammed down our throats so early. But this is the first year that I think Cranky Jr will be into it. Not the presents (he still doesn’t get that part yet, thanks to my general stinginess on all previous gift-giving holidays), but the other part. The lights, the singing, the decorations, the baking of cool treats. He may even begin to understand the concept of Santa this year.
It’s made me so enthused and cheerful I hardly recognize myself.
Another factor might be the blissful fact that for the first time in 16 years, I am not having to get on a plane to go anywhere this season. Wowsah.
I’m starting to get in to it now. It’s a little early, but I took my kids to a really cool Christmas program today (Cranky, take note!).
The Kiwanis Club hosts this really cool Christmas sing-along at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. It’s free. They’ve got an organist (the Michigan is an old-style movie palace), and they run the words on a big screen behind the “song leaders.” My dad & his wife have been to this a few times, with my oldest daughter and her brother (she’s 13, he’s 9). This year, the rest of their grandchildren were old enough to behave in public, so we all went. They also had a performance by a group called Three Men & A Tenor. Oh my goodness. I’ve heard of them, but never seen them. They’re outstanding. Then Santa dropped by for a visit. Brought the houseful o’ kids down. Oh yeah.
Seeing my kids get so in to singing & clapping & talking to Santa kinda got me in the spirit. I usually don’t hit full-on Holiday Mode until about a week beforehand. But I don’t mind it too much this time around. I still haven’t decorated or shopped, but at least I’m looking forward to it this year.
It dosen’t seem like Christmas until December. Thanksgiving was too early this year. I mean thete is still almost a week of November left, and It is not time for Christmas until December.
Well, after 30-odd years of Florida Christmases, I don’t look for it to get cool before I get in the spirit. I actually cleaned and decorated my house this weekend, inside and out. Everything looks cheerful with Christmas lights on! I’ll start my Christmas shopping next weekend.
Since the rights to this film were bought more than a few years back, they’ve stopped showing it on every channel several times around the holiday season. I had to buy my OWN copy on DVD to get to do that!
) and eggnog (with lots of good brandy in it)