By Nikki Rodriguez
This year, it seems like the popular thing to gripe about too early Christmas music and holidays infringing on each other.
Well, I hate my green beans running into my mashed potatoes and gravy as much as the next person, (some foods just should not touch each other) but holidays? That’s another matter.
Maybe starting with Christmas before mid-October is too soon, but now it’s cold, it’s late November and it feels like Christmas season to me!
Christmas time feels like the happiest time of the year with hot chocolate, ice skating, caroling and SNOW. I can’t think of a negative side to spreading the joy and love a couple weeks longer.
For all of you who can’t stand Christmas music and decorations overlapping with Turkey Day, here are some (warning: may be enforced) gentle suggestions from me to you:
1. Firstly, all that finals pressure must be going to your head. Enjoying some Christmas spirit will not make finals week come any faster, so relax and try one of these:
2. Free time tonight? Watch what is possibly the best holiday movie ever: “Elf.” Buddy the Elf will get the holiday-hoarding Grinch out of you!
3. Can’t beat ’em, join ’em: You have less than 3 days until Thanksgiving is over and you drop the Christmas-spirit-shaming to celebrate with me. So listen to some Christmas music here!
Anyone else have socially unacceptably early Christmas spirit? Those of you who still want to Christmas-spirit-shame us, how about a truce? I keep my music and you tell me how annoying I am in the comments.
Elizabeth Ware • Nov 8, 2015 at 9:48 pm
To the Holiday Pollyannas out there: kiss off! We can be thankful, kind and enjoy peace in earth 24/7 and not just on 12/25. We don t have to overeat, overspend and cave into societal pressure to have to be chipper to societal standards. Christmas was a ritual inititated by Pagans by marking the days and increasing hours of daylight but Romans decided to make a casserole out it by claiming it was the birth of Jesus (which historians can prove is incorrect because of the climate in Israel in December and not leaving sheep out in the fields) with an excuse to keep up the Pagan tradition. Businesses decided to cash in on the Holiday and a department store decided to use reindeer to market the holidays and pressure consumers to but. There is nothing spiritual about December 25th and I will observe it for what it is and be happy for more hours of daylight without spending every some and making a glutton of myself. Hearing holiday music in stores is stress inducing. If you holiday lovers claim spirituality then play some Gregorian chants, set a time and date to attend a church service on December 25th and say “Happy Birthday Jesus” and do away with all the materilism, festivities and gluttony. Routines should not be thrown off because of it. I should not have to be around people I can’t stand.
Stephanie • Nov 22, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Panera cookies all the way, Id recommend the mint crinkle as well!
Lucia • Nov 22, 2011 at 9:56 am
THANK YOU NICKI! this is something that needed to be heard. Too many scrooges! I love Christmas too so thank you!