LJ Idol Week 8 - Sit Down and Shut Up - Ranting LJ style

[monkeysugarmama]

It’s just early November, but apparently it’s already “the most won-der-ful time of the year…”

And just what time of year could I mean? Certainly not Christmas! But perhaps I am mistaken? I mean, the cornucopia and crispy fall leaves on my office calendar tell me it’s only the second week of November, yet Wal-Mart has already been hocking Hannah

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[monkeysugarmama]

Elva, love the icon :)

There were some Thanksgiving decorations they put out before Halloween that I told my daughter I might buy in November...those things disappeared along with the bats and skeletons. WTF?

Looks like I'm gonna have to eBay for some silly turkey decor :)

[dread_librarian]

ahh yes; this is more like it, miss lisa!

i have some very fond thanksgiving memories of my own. i got yer back on the whole 'bah humbug' against wal-mart.

good post!

[monkeysugarmama]

Phew! I am glad this was more to your standard - last week I told Mike you called me on it, lol!

Yeah, you have lived the joy that is the Milledgeville Super Wal-Mart. Kell, the one near me here is like twice as big. It is terrifying - it's like the Buy n' Large corporation from WALL-E (Hey...maybe I am totally slow but I just realized that his name's an awful lot like...Wally-World, one of our favorite nicknames for the place!)

Not only is it the most super sized Wal-Mart I have ever seen, it shares the parking lot with a Mastodon sized...Sam's Club! Scary.

[kittenboo]

we have the super wal-mart too, and i was just there and i am going to have to agree with you. there are even people around here already have their christmas lights up

[monkeysugarmama]

If we had our Christmas lights up already...it would only be because we never took them down from last Christmas, lolololol!

[kittenboo]

there have been years i have done just that and used them as party lights since it looked cooler for parties than turning on the porch light

[monkeysugarmama]

I know all the people on HGTV would give me a bitch slap for thinking this but...I'd use Christmas lights year round if I wasn't afraid of fire hazards :)

Thay just look so warm and cheery - particularly the colored ones! I once dated a guy because his apartment decor included numerous strands of Christmas lights and I thought he must be a sweetheart because of that.

[solstice_singer]

I, too, really like Thanksgiving. It's a really meaningful holiday for me, as I think gratitude is in short supply these days.

Christmas has just become way too commercialized. Honestly, I'm glad it's not my holiday anymore.

[monkeysugarmama]

As a kid, of COURSE Christmas was my favorite, but i realized in my early 20's that Thanksgiving had eclipsed it as far as it making my heart happy.

I forget sometimes that I have SO MUCH. I try to be grateful often, but to take a day, just one day, to really remember...I love it.

[monkeysugarmama]

That's a funny Idol reference, lol! But, exactly. It makes me grit my teeth and consider a switch to Kroger, even if they do make me pay 40 cents more for an apple over there!