I did it..
22I did it, and I don’t care who knows about it! I’m confessing my crimes here and now!
I put up my Christmas stuff early this past weekend. I’ve holly jolly holiday’d the shit out of my apartment. I mean tree, tree and fireplace scented candles, Google Home alternating between regular holiday songs and playing “holiday coffee shop beats” all of that stuff. All I need is a box of those little candy canes and a light up Christmas mask for going grocery shopping and I’ll be sitting on my throne of holiday cheer which was built from spent cups of Peppermint Mocha coffee from Starbucks.
Anyone doing the same?
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Peppermint Mochas! One of my favorite drinks, especially iced!
I’m still putting away Halloween.
@RiotDemon I haven’t started putting away Halloween.
@RiotDemon @sammydog01 People put away Halloween? I just use that time of year to buy year round home décor.
@ExtraMedium @sammydog01 it’s Halloween inside year round, (sort of, skeletons, dragons, etc) but I try not to subject my neighbors to outside Halloween constantly except for my dragon mailbox. He changes with the seasons.
@RiotDemon I saw a Home Depot worker on Black Friday all decked out for Halloween. Black spider web cape and hair bandana, spider web stockings.
My house is like a mullet, Thanksgiving/fall in the front and Christmas in the back.
Soooo pictures???
@tinamarie1974 Saving those for closer to Christmas. You should do the same. I’m going to ask everyone to post some tree pictures and stuff for some Christmas cheer that sort of thing.
@Targaryen if I put up a tree I will be happy to post pics. It is still under advisement. Really afraid the puppy may attack it and pull it down!!
@Targaryen @tinamarie1974
no, not me, but my preferred winter holiday to celebrate
@Cerridwyn @Targaryen @tinamarie1974 Is that a prayer labyrinth made from luminaries? If so that is way cool
@allergycheryl @Targaryen @tinamarie1974
Basically yes
@Targaryen @tinamarie1974 you should clarify the ask. I can post tree pictures but… They will probably not be of the variety you are going for. Plenty of sad trees before I even get creative about such a wide open request.
@Targaryen @unksol hum, well the ask was for pics of holiday decor. But, what the hell it is 2020, be creative. Try to suprise us!
@Targaryen @tinamarie1974
He/she said “I’m going to ask everyone to post some tree pictures and stuff for some Christmas cheer that sort of thing.”
Lots of wiggle room lol
The tree part seems to be separate from Christmas cheer. Just saying
Need pics of holiday cheer pls.
@Thumperchick I was saving them for Christmas a “show us your decorations” type forum post when we get closer to Christmas.
@Thumperchick here’s my friend’s from Halloween?
@RiotDemon @Thumperchick that is fantastic!
@RiotDemon @Thumperchick Nice set up.
Excellent! When the cops find the dead hookers in my trunk I point them to this confession.
/giphy dead hookers
@yakkoTDI I’m guilty of hooking… up some lights and ornaments.
I think you get a pass on getting a jump on the holidays this year. We all need to self-cheer lately.
@PocketBrain agreed
@duodec @PocketBrain Yeah normally I’m a wait until December guy but I figured why not this year?
@Ambiverbal That looks like Quebec?
Nothing inside yet but I (and a crap ton of my friends and neighbors) put up the outside lights when it was in the 70s a couple of weekends ago. Of course Mother Nature decided that was too early and brought high winds (gusts in the 70s - yep its 2020) to try to take then down. Just have to figure out what to do with the Santa head fence hanger we got in a BOC since we don’t have a fence.
@j2 regift it?
@j2 I mean… Flying Santa and reindeer so…
I’ve already started listening to Christmas music. Ba-doo-do-doo doop doop doop-da-doop, ba-doo-do-doo doop doop doop-da-doop, I’m dreaming of a white Christmas…
Yeah, same just playing different playlists.
I just can’t bring myself to put up Xmas decorations before the 753rd of March.
My husband decorated this week. I had to put my foot down and insist he wait to put up the tree until the day after Thanksgiving. And all the f^@#ing hallmark christmas romances he watches! WTF! He should be the damned woman of the house! Cripe, I get home at midnight and he’s still watching the damned things! Christmas early? Bah hamburger!
@AuntMean67 did he drag a deer in yet to redeem himself?
@unksol Only one so far…we’ll see tomorrow. As for redemption, When you eat 3 bambis worth of meat every year, you kind of get sick of it. I’d love a nice thick NY strip made from COW!
@AuntMean67 @unksol I found Bambi dead at the end of my driveway yesterday morning. I guess someone hit him, but there was no blood or obvious wounds and there was a pool of white foam around its muzzle. I made some calls to find out what to do about it - State Wildlife Dept: Unhelpful recording; State Police: Unhelpful recording; finally, County Road Dept: OK, we’ll send a crew out to pick it up. Bambi was hauled off to greener pastures within the hour.
In this state you can salvage road kill, but you have to get a permit from the State Wildlife Dept (who did not answer the phone), and you have to turn in the head of a male deer (which Bambi was).
@AuntMean67 @macromeh there was a bambi at the end of the neighbors drive which is technically my property. But. They turned the old garage that is also my property into a chicken coop… So they can deal with it lol. Idk how or when it got there…
When it was in the 30s maybe the meat could have been saved… not so much when it bounced back into the 50s and 60s.
@macromeh @unksol We have to turn in the antler heads here, too. Technically we need a permit to salvage but the rarely check it out. With the white foam, I’m not sure I would have kept it. Want a good laugh? I always keep a “body bag” in my trunk, just in case someone hits one and I see it (I don’t pick up questionable ones). I have an extensive family and a network of “friends” who always take meat, but my spouse prefers not to give it away.
I like to share.
My neighbors with the huge tree had lights up the first week of November. It’s nice now that it’s getting dark so early.
@Kyeh
That’s gorgeous
This also applies to anytime before Black Friday:
I shop all year, and I’m in the mood to watch White Christmas. Other than that, I’m good until December.
Oh, that reminds me, I need to lay in some Evan Williams Egg Nog before it sells out.
@ThunderChicken
/image gif black mirror white Christmas
Every year when I take down the Halloween decorations I put up the outdoor Christmas lights. It makes sense since I’ve got the storage area torn up anyway. On Thanksgiving night I turn them on.
Except this year. I didn’t decorate for Halloween. Today I’m doing Christmas lights while it’s warm out.
I took down the Halloween wreath and door mat and put up the Christmas wreath and door mat.
@sammydog01, here’s a cute idea you could steal from World Market to make with your knitting thingie.
@Kyeh Those are cute!
X-mas decorations now?
/giphy you-are-monsters
This is how you do it? Right?
@Kidsandliz omg!!
@tinamarie1974 I know. Great! Isn’t it? A friend whose kid came home from college with just about every stitch of clothing dirty posted this (not her photo).
This phrase brought up powerful feelings from within the wellsprings of my Being.