It's Christmas Week

-

 Okay, for most everyone Santa arrived on Christmas Eve.  But the Season actually ends on New Year's particularly since both days are on a Monday this year.  I won't argue the point, because I hate to see Christmas come to a screeching halt at noon on Christmas Day.  Christmas night is a huge night for those who want to go to the movies, but too, this is a huge week for college football.  

I had a few posts written for yesterday and today, but decided that Christmas really should not come to a screeching halt after Christmas dinner is served and dishes need to be loaded in the dishwasher.  We need some time to adjust to a season that is nearly a month and half long starting with Halloween.  We need time to adjust before the bills arrive.

Really, I'm thinking Christmas season needs to come to an end about Valentine's Day.  Some people don't take their lights down until Easter!  I think that is a little long.  A lot of northerners in Florida hate the fact there aren't seasons here in Florida and can't get used to shorts and T-shirts on Christmas Day.  Those who live in Florida year round don't pay too much attention to national weather forecasts, unless we're traveling and can forget there are blizzards that interrupt travel this time of year.

We can't get used to not having a white Christmas, but still complain if a high for the day 70 degrees.  It CAN get cold for New Year's Eve celebrations in NYC being below freezing.  That's just downright cold!  I just complained to my wife that it will be sunny here on New Year's Eve with a high predicted of only 68.  Even that is too cold for most here.  It really won't start to warm up here until March, but I'll take it.

I just think that Christmas needs to continue until after New Year's Day and not just come to a screeching halt at noon on Christmas Day.  But there are some religions that keep Christmas until Epiphany on January 6.  The Twelve Days of Christmas begins on Christmas Day, with gifts given each day until Epiphany.  But tell Santa this!  Already he's planning his beach vacation if he hasn't left already with his red Speedo already packed.

Even today he might be unpacking or he's already on the beach!  Frankly, I wouldn't care if Christmas continues through January.  But we already know that Christmas is over and a delay just delays the inevitable.  Christmas is over for most.  And for those who don't know it, they're just out of step with the rest of us.  I look forward to New Year's, but already I know Christmas is over.  But my point is that with the buildup of so many days, it's all over in an hour or two Christmas morning, it just shouldn't be.  If it isn't over for you, then you live in a different world than most of us.  The temps are warm enough for me sit by the pool and smoke my Boswell with some Red River until I receive my next tobacco order.  I know Christmas is over, but I'm just thinking it doesn't have to be.  But I know Santa ain't leaving the beach!  I wouldn't either.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

It's About Balance

-
 I seem to struggle week after week as to how much football I am going to watch.  There for awhile I was watching all the analysis of the collegiate games and decided I was simply paying too much attention to football.  I cut way back last week and as the season begins to unfold I have to ask myself how much is too much?  I didn't watch one pro game last weekend and hadn't followed the analysis of collegiate games all week.   Then I found myself having a kind of withdrawal and decided I can watch whatever football I want to watch as long as it doesn't interfere with my Spirituality.  But at what point is too much too much?  My wife and I talked about this last week as I cut back on watching and we both decided that I like football and I shouldn't have to be thinking about how much or how little I watch.  I enjoy the games.  College more than the pro's.   I don't have to watch the analysis, but I like College Game Day and I like...
Read more

Strange

-
 I can never predict how any of my posts are going to be received but I do get a reaction from my wife quite often, but I'll post about my Spirituality thinking I've said enough and apart from a few other subjects my Spirituality posts do quite well.  I had yesterday's tobacco review done a few days ago and saved it for yesterday and again, it seems my tobacco reviews do quite well.  Then I wrote about my age and it seemed no one cared that much   My wife says that it's my titles for my subjects So, while I have so many subjects to choose from, today it is about how my tobacco choices influence my Spirituality or do they?  Not really.  It's just that I can't smoke my pipes without tobacco.  I could be smoking a lot of things.  Like the question asked when someone thinks you are crazy, " What have I been smoking?"  Well, at least you know.  It's never any "funny" stuff.  You could be asking what I've been drinking.  I have ...
Read more

Old Ads

-
 My wife liked my post about old things we remember.  And a lot of what I remembered was good.  But there was some bad things back then that are different today.  Back in the 50's and 60's and even into the 70's advertising in both magazines and TV were incredibly sexist.  I don't have the space in one post to list all the ads, but really they can be summed by saying that a lot of advertising was incredibly sexist. I 've mentioned my wife lit my pipe for me just a few times, but these days she can barely tolerate the aroma of my most flavorful Aromatic tobacco.  She liked everything I said in that post except my mentioning Old Professor pipe tobacco.  Ironically, I like Old Professor the most and she hates it the most.  So, when I mentioned it, she did too.  But back in the day a man smoking a pipe was his lifestyle.  Today, it's a hobby, and not just for men. But too back in the day, no woman could walk down the street without some perv...
Read more