Bells on bobtail ring.... What is a bobtail anyway?
I have been listening to Christmas music already. I know, I know, it is REALLY early to be doing so. But you see, I look forward to this time of year all. year. long. It starts for me october 1st. I love Halloween, next to Christmas, it is my favorite.
I used to dress up every year. I have been a clown, a princess (on many occasions), a clown, a witch for several years....I think i was a pumpkin once; or maybe it was Pooh. I am not sure, but I loved it. Getting candy and seeing all the decorations people put up. I would stock pile my candy and make it last as long as possible....we are talking 6 months at least!
My brother used to do the same thing. We used to hide our candy in toy boxes, my plastic kitchen oven, jewelry boxes, and my all time favorite spot; the LEGO box. I think we bartered candy to each other like money. He was a candy fiend. I think he lived off of candy, ice cream and cereal....he still kind of does, but his wife does make him eat other healthier things.
In a side note, he has a three year old. She has been staying up till after midnight every night with no naps and they could not figure out how. They heard her talking to herself one night and went into her room to see what she was up to. She had brown gunk all over her mouth. Ryan said he thought to himself it could be one of two things and I hope it is the sugary stuff. When he asked her where she got the chocolate, she had this indignant expression on her face and said "my caw" (that is "car" to those of you not around children)! When he went to get the little model car he built with our dad years ago, he opened the trunk and hocolate kisses exploded out of it. She had been hoarding candy just like him!!!
Anyway, so back to Halloween. I have always been attracted to the scary and gruesome stuff for Halloween. It was not until years ago that my man introduced me to scary movies. Now, it isn't so much the scary beccoming reality as to why I don't like them, it is the snxiety I feel watching them that I don't like. I get into the movie and start having heart palpatations. I don't like it. But then again I love pumpkins, skeletans, bats, etc.
November and Thanksgiving are next. Boring and brown. So, I skip over that and move onto the Christmas season. I start listening to Christmas music November 1st as a rule. It was hard to get into it this year. I don't know why, maybe my situation makes me feel that way, but I forced it and now, the music is what makes me feel.....happy. It makes my spirit bright. All of them are happy or about the birth of Jesus, which is good because he came to save my soul...and yours, by the way. Decorations, pine smells, snow, presents, music. All of it makes my spririt bright. Nothing else during the year compares to this for me.
I wonder if it is like this for anyone else. Thoughts?
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