Happy Hallowthanksmas!

Dearest Blog,

A few interesting tidbits about my day:

~ While sitting outside Chambers, witnessed an older couple running. Man had massive erection, and running was altered because of this. And it was damn cold too.

~ A bug flew in my room through the window. Normally this would not merit a mention in my blog, except the bug was a bright, bright, teal and green color. I showed it to Jennifer and she said it looked like a mutant bug, which leads me to consider the nuclear power plant 5 miles down the road. Maybe....? Nah....

~ Am sitting in my room, listening to the radio. Which brings me, Dearest Blog, to my next point.

Christmas music is on the radio. The radio station I wake up to every morning is playing continuous Christmas music (because "Christmas is [their] middle name") until that blessed day of the birth of our savior.

Reasons Why I Shamelessly Love Christmas, Even Though Everyone Loves Christmas, So It Really Isn't That Big of a Deal:

~ "Santa Clause Is Coming to Town" by Bruce Springsteen. Perhaps it's the colloquial intro of Bruce chatting friendly with his bass player, or the really fast piano riffs, or the fact that it was the first Christmas song I heard on the radio this year. The reasons don't matter, the fact is, this song is ah-may-zing.

~ The fact that I have an excuse to listen to and sing along with Christmas music during the first week of November.

~ It's cold, thank God. Which means I get to wear the ever-desirable, ever-so-cute pea coat, scarf, driving gloves, and hat. It may be a scientific fact that bundling up in the cold gives you a more pleasant warmth than just being in warm weather. I mean, come on. It's a pea coat.

~ The Hershey Kisses come in red and green tin foil, and they show that commercial where the hershey candies are bells being played to "Carol of the Bells".

~ The M&M's come in red and green colors, and they show that commericial where the M&M's candies walk in on Santa spreading out presents under the tree. ("He does exist..." "They do exist...." "....Um, Santa?")

~ Christmas cards, I love them. I love them, Christmas cards.

~ Really cheesy and/or awful Christmas movies (that everyone loves). Sample films include, but are not limited to, the following: It's a Wonderful Life, Jingle All the Way, Scrooged (with the dapper Bill Murray), Die Hard, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Dr. Suess' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street, Home Alone (and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York), The Muppet Christmas Carol, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, The Ref, White Christmas, and (of course) The Santa Clause. (Please note that though Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is a viable Christmas movie, Home Alone 3 and The Santa Clause 2 are not. Santa Clause 3 is still up for debate, as is Elf and that new movie, Fred Clause.)

~ Parties. Quiche. Those little meatball appetizers served on toothpicks cooked in a crockpot all day drenched in heaven sauce.

~ The Christmas Coffee from Whole Foods. I discovered this coffee a few years back when I was with Mother buying a lamb roast or something. They had little samples out, and I partook, and then forced my mom to buy the coffee for our Christmas party. I rediscovered it a few weeks ago, when I was sitting outside my dorm with Jason, working on a paper, and drinking the Christmas Coffee that he had stolen from some poor bloke living on his hall. The coffee pot was set up outside, percolating right there with us, while we smoked Cloves (the christmas cigarette) and listened to my Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby Christmas CD.

~ Cloves, the Christmas cigarette. Cloves are good anytime, but they're better during yuletide.

~ My Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby Christmas CD.

~ Christmas potpourris. These can be Glade or even Febreeze, they just have to smell like spice and Christmas and be named something like "Christmas Pumpkin Pie" or "Candy Cane Lane". The best, however is what you make at home. Here's a quick How-To Make Your Home Smell Like Christmas: 1) Cut a hole in the box. (just kidding) 1) Pick out one plump cinnamon stick. 2) Set a saucepan full of water on the stove to simmer. 3) Put the cinnamon stick in the saucepan 4) Sit on your couch and read the paper, as Christmas wafts over you. It would please you to be wearing socks at this time as well.

~ Hot chocolate at any anonymous coffee shop. You must be wearing the attire as mentioned in bullet point #3, or else the full effect of this experience will be lost.

And there you have it. That's the annotated list of the things I love about Christmas, abbreviated and cut for your pleasure. Now I've worked myself into a Grandma-missing frenzy, I must now write a 10 page religion research paper.

Until next time, Dear Blog, keep it rill.

P. I. Staker