It's smart to be thrifty!

Emmy, here, reporting to you all on the most depressing day of the whole year: The Day After Christmas. I feel like I JUST GOT the decorations just the way I wanted them. I only JUST GOT into the Christmas spirit. I only JUST MANAGED to get the house clean. The only mitigating factor is, of course, The After Christmas Sale. Everyone knows it's smart to be thrifty-- even people at Macy's in the 1950s, as illustrated in our visual aid. Plus, retail therapy definitely goes a long way toward easing post-holidays depression. So, go shopping, people! Make it happen at shockingly low prices.

Merry Christmas!

A Disney Christmas Gift Television Special (1986)

The Best Christmas Cartoon Ever.

The Night Before Christmas (1933).

The Juice Box #16

Behold--The Twilight Before Christmas...



"Jenn's Twilight Book Report"--LOLOLOLOL!

Even MORE classic Disney Christmas...

LOL.

Walking in a tacky wonderland....

Have some Christmas fun on the Tacky Christmas Light Tour. Seriously, people, you can even search locally! I can't believe I didn't invent this database.

More classic Disney Christmas...

The best part of Donald Duck's Christmas is clearly the overcoat, people.

"The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear." --Buddy the Elf

Well, it's just not CHRISTMAS around my house unless my Mom has on some Christmas music and is trying to sing along with all the harmony parts. It's not that she can't SING or anything. It's just that, as we all know, unless you are some kind of musical savant like in Shine or something, you can't possibly know all the harmony parts without even practicing. Ever the trailblazer, though, Mom doesn't let this stop her, and sings right along anyway. It certainly makes for a lot of Christmas cheer while she searches for the notes. ...She's doing it right now--AS I type this. The song is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, she's been disharmonic for about 2 verses now, and yet, she's still soldiering on. It's the gift that keeps on giving!

(P.S. How creepy is that album name in our visual aid? Maidens in Melody? Really? Really? How about The Vibrato Virgins? Blooms in B Flat? Hymens in Harmony? Seriously, people...)

Christmas in the Jungle

The downstairs lobby of my office building is decorated for Christmas, which is lovely and cute and festive. Believe me, I'm not complaining--they only started doing it a couple of years ago and I'm a big fan. The decorations generally consist of poinsettias and wreaths and trees--lots of red and green, etc.

And while that is, again, festive, it's also sort of like having to walk through a green house to get to the elevators. It's something that always perplexed me in college--every time we got a speaker in, the way the events committee dressed up the venues for the occasion was by sticking plants everywhere. On some of the smaller auditorium stages it was especially ridiculous--there'd be so many trees and shrubs and plants squeezed into every spare bit of space that the speakers would have to hack through the foliage to get to the podium.

I always waited in hopeful anticipation for the speaker to acknowledge the jungle behind them and open with, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

Never happened--a major disappointment of my college experience.

What a lovely arrangement...

Over at the Holiday Spirit Livejournal, user ultraviolent shows us some pictures of his/her mom's obsession with snowmen as holiday decor. My mom has a similar obsession, only it's with Santas. I wouldn't say it's quite as bad as the snowmen pictured, but it's still like an international Santa conference at our house during Christmas...

The Nightmare Before Christmas (in 9 minutes).

You sit on a throne of LIES.

I knew you weren't suited for literature.

Christmas + The Muppets= Amazing.

It's that time again...

It's December 1st! As such, I should inform you that in my world that means it's all Christmas all the time until January 6th. I can't help it--I come from a family that has been known to leave inside Christmas decorations up until February. I suppose that could just mean that we're LAZY and have problems with letting go, but I prefer to think of it as us being fun-loving and do-as-we-please...

SANTA! I KNOW HIM!

Now that Black Friday is over, it's officially the most wonderful time of the year again. I'm going to TRY to control my EXCITEMENT. Christmas is KIND OF a big deal for me, people. I can't help it.