Watched Elf last night. Very, very funny! The DVD has a huge stash of extras. Very good for the kiddies. :-) This morning, the student radio station had Christmas music on. It is therefore the fault of those two incidents that I am sitting here listening to christmas radio and secretly wishing for snow...
As long as I can remember, my parents had a cute little holiday tradition. Starting sometime after Thanksgiving, once my brother and I had gone to bed, they would go up into the attic and choose one Christmas decoration each night. They would put it out while we were sleeping, and in the morning we would search around the house for the decoration that the "elves" had brought us in preparation for Christmas. The most difficult task was the little door-knob santa and frosty, which had little bells on them that nearly woke us up when they put them on. I don't remember when I found out that it was really my parents...I think they decorated some themselves in front of us, so we were probably gradually weaned from the "elf" appearances.
When I got a little older, whenever I was old enough to be home alone, of course we had the day after Thanksgiving off from school; we also had Monday after Thanksgiving as well. I would love it if you non-PA residents would guess what for! Either Friday or Monday, while my parents were at work, I would sneak up into the attic and, avoiding any stashed Christmas presents, would proceed to find EVERY SINGLE NON-TREE RELATED CHRISTMAS DECORATION and bring them downstairs. I would run around the house in some frantic, dust-covered, euphoric holiday glee, placing every wreath, bell, stocking, door hanger, lights on the porch (when I could use a hammer and tacks), knick-knacks, nativity set, fake plastic ivy, santa suncatchers...EVERYTHING. I realize in hindsight that it not only drove my mother nuts, but probably took some of the fun out of it for my parents, who enjoyed their prior methods of decorating and probably wished they could do some of it themselves. Hey, I left them the tree! If I'd only had a saw...
I fear for my apartment now, and the beating it will take when this weekend is over.
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Aw, c'mon, just guess! Why'd we have Monday off, you ask?!?
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