Christmas/Holiday Season 2024

[dixiehack]

I'm fine with actual carols all the way through Epiphany (not that I hear them outside of church) but the rest of the playlist gets shelved soon after 12-25. And I really don't start listening until December if I can help it.

 

[swingline]

Not my vibe, but you do you. What does bother me is that she has a string of Christmas lights all along the back of her house and along both sides of her fence, and the fence that we share in the back, that has the flashing multi-colored lights and is on from dusk to dawn, 365 days a year. Like WTF?

Replace one of those blinking bulbs with one that's burned out and hope that the whole string goes dark. She'll have a hell of a time finding the bad bulb, or she'll have to buy and install new lights. Either way, a win for you.

 

[swingline]

I put up exactly zero Christmas decorations or lights, and I never have a tree. My children's mother does all of it, and we had a tree every year we were together, but I never did anything when I was single.

I had a GF years ago who wanted a tree for our house, so we got one. I came home one night to find the whole tree, stiill decorated, laying in the front yard. She had dragged it out of the house after it fell over several times and left it there. I took a circular saw to the base the next morning and put the tree back up.

Thanksgiving is my holiday, and I don't care much for any of the others.