So, it's been a while, but I need to get cracking on this blog thing, or so say all the SEO gurus out there... if I want to be seen, I must blog, and so I shall.
I'm sure this is no surprise, but the holiday season is becoming a true season, not just a 3-week happy time. A friend on Facebook posted today that she is taking her nephew to see Santa fly in from the North Pole... on November 8th!
WHAT?
How does he have all this free time now? Have the elves been replaced by robots, like the auto plants? Is he outsourcing? Just who is minding the store, while he takes 7 weeks to loll around a Jacksonville mall?
I saw my first "Christmas" ad before Halloween... that's just wrong. The hobby shops had Christmas decorations out in June... even more wrong. Publix had Christmas ice cream out for sale 3 weeks ago. DISCLAIMER: I bought some, 'cuz it's awesome! Don't judge. Gator football season and Christmas is too much to handle at one time. They are supposed to be separate, awesome seasons, to be enjoyed in succession, not mushed together like apple pie and ice cream.
The lengthening of the season has taken all the fun and wonder out of it. When I was a kid, Christmas decorations didn't go up until after Thanksgiving, and the television onslaught was contained to the last two weeks or so before the big day. Now, with 8 or 9 weeks of Christmas, we are becoming desensitized, so that when it actually gets here, we're so sick of Christmas, that we just want it to be over. That's a sad state to be in.
Maybe it's just part of being an adult, and noticing these things, but it makes me feel sad for losing the wonderment of my favorite holiday.
I'm sure this is no surprise, but the holiday season is becoming a true season, not just a 3-week happy time. A friend on Facebook posted today that she is taking her nephew to see Santa fly in from the North Pole... on November 8th!
WHAT?
How does he have all this free time now? Have the elves been replaced by robots, like the auto plants? Is he outsourcing? Just who is minding the store, while he takes 7 weeks to loll around a Jacksonville mall?
I saw my first "Christmas" ad before Halloween... that's just wrong. The hobby shops had Christmas decorations out in June... even more wrong. Publix had Christmas ice cream out for sale 3 weeks ago. DISCLAIMER: I bought some, 'cuz it's awesome! Don't judge. Gator football season and Christmas is too much to handle at one time. They are supposed to be separate, awesome seasons, to be enjoyed in succession, not mushed together like apple pie and ice cream.
The lengthening of the season has taken all the fun and wonder out of it. When I was a kid, Christmas decorations didn't go up until after Thanksgiving, and the television onslaught was contained to the last two weeks or so before the big day. Now, with 8 or 9 weeks of Christmas, we are becoming desensitized, so that when it actually gets here, we're so sick of Christmas, that we just want it to be over. That's a sad state to be in.
Maybe it's just part of being an adult, and noticing these things, but it makes me feel sad for losing the wonderment of my favorite holiday.