The annual I love Christmas thread

[The Burgomaster]

I love the entire season starting with Thanksgiving and ending with New Year's Day.  I went to the Christmas Tree Shop on Saturday and bought some more decorations for the house.  They are already set up in my family room (I was too lazy to put them away only to drag them out again in a couple of weeks).  The ones from last year are still in the attic . . . I won't set them up until the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving.

My iPod is already loaded with Christmas music (and, I must confess, I have already cheated and listened to a few songs).

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day will be at my parents' house.

Christmas Eve we eat stuffed calamari over spaghetti, peel-and-eat shrimp, baked stuffed scallops, and other goodies.

Christmas Day we open gifts in the morning.  Then around mid-afternoon we have the traditional turkey dinner with stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, carrot and turnip, cranberry sauce (which I don't like . . . but it looks good on the table), and another vegetable or two.  Various pies for dessert.

Christmas Night, around 7:00 or 8:00, we bring out the turkey again and make turkey sandwiches.

I usually take some vacation time between Christmas and New Year's Day.  This year, I'll be off from December 24 through January 3.

[HappyGilmore]

My iPod is already loaded with Christmas music (and, I must confess, I have already cheated and listened to a few songs).



Christmas Night, around 7:00 or 8:00, we bring out the turkey again and make turkey sandwiches.

I've been driving family crazy with the Christmas jams already.  Sometime in the past week, two of the MusicChoice channels on Digital Cable have been playing Holiday music, 24/7 until January 3rd.  Got me in such the spirit I pulled out a few of my oldie Christmas cd's (Bing, Nat King Cole etc) and some more contemporary (newer, like Barenaked Ladies, etc) and been playing them. 

As for the Turkey sandwiches...my grandfather LOVED Christmas.  He'd have my grandmother up at 6AM to start cooking the turkey.  Then it'd be done by 2, so he'd eat that for lunch.  Come to my house at 6PM for dinner to have more turkey.  Then we'd go to his house at 8PM, where he'd promptly make turkey sandwiches and reheat some stuffing.  Then he'd take us home, and ask us for a turkey sandwich for the trouble of bringing us home.  Then he'd keep all the leftover turkey out, and for about a week, would have turkey sandwiches. 

[Paquita]

I LOVE Christmas too!  I love everything about it!  Decorating, trees, 24 hr christmas songs on the radio (although ours hasn't started yet), cookies! cinnamon scented pine cones!  I've been making gingerbread houses every year!  2 years ago my husband and I made a 2-story gingerbread victorian house, with a patio.. i wish it was life size.. I have to top it this year!  I don't even let the commercialism bother me! nothing's going to ruin my Christmas!  and I don't lose sight of "the reason for the season" either, but you won't catch me weeping over any nativity sets.  I can think of no better way to celebrate than being the best we can be - kind, generous, charitable, forgiving, loving, and jovial.  I realize people should be that way year-round, but they're not.  People are cranky.  Making them do it once a year is long enough.

Stockings!  I can't wait to start all my stupid Christmas projects!!! I'm frothing at the mouth with excitement!!  Sugar Plums!  Jingle.

Man I love Santa.

Sorry, can't join either.     I love Christmas, it brings back a ton of happy childhood memories and makes me feel like a little kid again.  I love everything from the snow to picking out a Christmas tree;  wrapping presents and watching them slowly accumulate under the tree;  seeing our kids' faces when they open their presents on Christmas eve;  watching the cat tear into the pile of discarded wrapping paper;  baking Christmas cookies, Christmas music at the mall, shopping with a million other people, egg nog, watching Rudolph, Frosty, the Little Drummer Boy, hell I even enjoy the "very special" Christmas episodes of all the TV shows and the Christmas commercials.

Love it all   

HUG!!!!!

[Allhallowsday]

I posted this find in the Anti-Christmas thread, make of that what you will, but this wonderful version must be shared... that is ALASTAIR SIM voicing Scrooge: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hA5T1G7rxg 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwii8AMfgkA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXsALUC4HEU&feature=related 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtsV8QZXS7Q&feature=related

[The Burgomaster]

I'm sitting in my office with my iPod hooked up to my computer speakers listening to Christmas music . . . a Roger Whittaker song is on right now . . . and I'm getting favorable responses from my co-workers.