Merry Christmas?

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SharonC

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Kudos for internet shopping!!! I loves me some amazon, Wal-Mart, Barnes and Noble and other online stores. "Would you liked that shipped to your front doorstep Mr. Ghost19?", "I certainly would! Please and thank you." Fighting holiday shopping crowds is just about enough to drive me bananas....I read somewhere several years back that that a military study on the alpha waves produced by fighter pilots in actual air to air combat situations were almost identical to the alpha waves produced by the male brain while Christmas shopping. The brain stress levels were almost identical....I'm not a pilot, but I'd believe it...
I do love the convenience of online shopping and shipping. If I do go out though, I like to go as early in the morning as possible to avoid crowds. I know women are supposed to love shopping, but I'm not one of them. I only go when I absolutely have to. I avoid crowds like the plague at this time of year especially, because you're supposed to love your fellow man at this time of year, not want to kill them,
 

SharonC

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I will say I am anxious to put up my boyfriend, Mr. Christmas tree. But, not until after thanksgiving. And I try to get my shopping done early so I don't have to deal with cranky people and get all hot and agitated in the mall waiting in crowds and standing in lines.

I love my Christmas tree. Someday, we're going to get married and have a bunch of little boughs. Through a surrogate bush of course.
Well, with Mr. Christmas Tree coming out only once a year, I guess "artificial" insemination seems the logical way to go.
 

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king family fan

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I can't agree more. I started seeing Christmas stuff before Halloween! Drives me nuts. So I do the mental equivelent of putting my fingers in my ears and singing la la la to do my best to ignore it. When I was a little girl it was Santa after the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade. I understand there does need to be some forward planning, but TV and radio and shop stuff so early?
santa arrived in our town last weekend. Way to early.
 

Neesy

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santa arrived in our town last weekend. Way to early.


Our channel that usually shows pictures of pretty scenes from around the world, nature, animals etc. is now showing the fireplace (you know - crackling logs, flames and then the phantom arm that shows up occasionally to poke the fire with a poker)... they are showing this all day - wait a second - it is only November 21st! :grief:
 

Neesy

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If Santa arrived in our town right now, I think I'd probably hand him a shovel and tell him to 'get to work, George!' There is much to do in my garden. We'll have no slack-arses here. :biggrin2:
Oooo - garden :beauty:- ours is covered in snow - but those grapes that Andy planted are still hanging there - all purple and frozen!