Thursday Threesome: Christmas Bells are Ringing

[kyrielle]

Christmas Bells are Ringing

Onesome: Christmas-- Is it Thanksgiving? ...or just the day before the start of the "Christmas Season"? (...and how are you supposed to shop if you're all stuffed with food?) Hey, is anyone going out tomorrow to save tons of money standing in endless lines with 10,000 of your closest friends? Just curious...

It's Thanksgiving. My radio station has been playing 100% Christmas music for a week, because they couldn't wait. Thanksgiving is, alas, no longer the barrier to the Christmas season. Which is a REAL PITY. Ahem. I like Christmas music, but really.

As far as shopping, I think those people are nuts. Although, I have found the day after Thanksgiving is lovely for grocery shopping if you have a grocery store that is just a grocery store (Fred Meyer, which sells so much other stuff, will not do). Everyone is at the stores buying holiday gifts, and the grocery store is fairly clear. Though I don't need groceries right now so I shan't be going tomorrow. I may go out shopping tomorrow for the heck of it, but hopefully that brief bizarre impulse will delay at least until Saturday....

Twosome: Bells-- Okay, we'll give in and admit that maybe the season has started: what decorations are you looking forward to seeing in the next few days? ...the lights in the downtown? How about knowing you'll soon have a tree with that memorable ornament? The Toys for Tots drop off? What makes you comfortable knowing the Christmas season is really here?

We don't put up a tree. I don't feel right having one in only to kill it - and live trees must be planted out, which we've nowhere to do properly. I'll start to enjoy the lights and the tinsel and decorations I see about at other people's expense, though it still feels a bit early this year. And the music which, as I said, I love when I'm not growling about how early it has started.

Threesome: are Ringing-- ...in your ears? What song are you just dreading to hear this season? Come on, the one that just makes you scrunch up inside and want to duck into an iron foundry so you can't hear it? Weird Al? Something from "The Nutcracker"? Those dogs? I mean come on, there's some bad stuff out there ...

Salvation Army Bells. They won't be at Target this year (yay!) but I bet they'll still be at the mall. Why that awful, ugly, painful din is supposed to make you want to give them money, I have no idea. It's not like they shut up when you give them money. If they did, I'd be waving money at them before I was within 20 feet. :P

Speaking of actual music? I can't think of any right now. It's all premature at this point, but I haven't heard anything I dislike greatly. I would like to hear Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer (sorry, but I would), but I haven't yet.

Comments

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

The lovely thing about grocery shopping at this time of year is that all the spices are on sale--I suppose the management of the stores figures that this is the time of year when we are "guilted" into baking. ^-^;;

And, amen, sister, on the Salvation Army bells. Great cause, but bad publicity.

[eevieivy.livejournal.com]

I agree wholeheartedly about the Salvation Army Bells. They hurt my ears and make me want to take the bell away and throw it somewhere rather than give them any kind of money.

I could sing you Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer. I learned it in middle school and haven't quite managed to forget the words.

The Bells! The Bells!

[mandydax.livejournal.com]

Doing my best Quasimodo impression (and was he almost like, but not quite good enough to be a regular Modo?), I abhor the bells. But I have a funny story. I had an ex named Jen (not Jenn, but Jen ;) ), and we visted my hometown around this time of year once. We went into the big Kmart for something, and it was very cold outside. There was a woman in a very warm looking coat ringing the bell for the SA, and she had pulled her hands up into the sleeves so you couldn't see them. I had an inspiration and made this up on the spot as we entered the store: "That lady back there, her name's Karen Small, and she had a bad accident when she worked at the chicken factory on the north side of town. She lost her right hand. They fit her with a prosthetic, but she had it made so that she can detatch it and put other attachments on it, like the bad guy from Enter the Dragon. She likes to put a hook on and go as a pirate for Halloween, and she has that bell, it fits right into the socket." I loved how gullible she was. I could feed her a line of falsity like that, and her eyes'd get wide and she'd say, "Really?" Then I'd say, "No." Then she'd get all huffy. XD

I also told her that when the girl on "The Practice" got stabbed (and survived), they did that storyline because she'd been stabbed in real life. "Ya know, like they make the character pregnant when the actress becomes pregnant." "Really?" "No." Huffy! Muahahahahaha!

Thanks for the memories! Teehee!