Current Weather in Indianapolis: Clear, Breezy and Mild Temp: 64 F (18 C)
My Current Mood: SleepyHoly Jack-O-Lanterns Batman! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! What ever happened to Halloween?
I decided to head up to Target today and look at some coffee makers. Just as soon as I walked through the door I could see dozens of artificial Christmas trees twinking in the back of the store! What? Where are all the Halloween decorations? I couldn't see any, but I
could see a whole forest of fake Christmas trees in front of me. I couldn't believe my eyes! I asked the saleslady if people were buying them and she said not only are people buying them, they are already sold out of a few models.
WOW!
Now don't get me wrong. I am not a Scrooge. I love Christmas.
As a child I couldn't wait for the Christmas season to finally come. I was even worse once I started working. I spent most of my paychecks purchasing Christmas lights and decorations. During the months of November and early December, I made frequent trips to Ayr-way and K-Mart to buy boxes of twinkling lights, ornaments and electric candles.
After several years of buying these lights and decorations, our house looked like a winter wonderland. It drove my parents crazy too. "Why do you keep spending your money on all these Christmas lights?", they would ask me. But the house and yard did look beautiful. WIBC (a local radio station) even did a "flyover" of our house one year and mentioned it live on the radio! People began driving past our house at night; some would slow down and others would just park their cars and look.
I decorated everything I could think of. Every window was bordered in lights. Lights were placed along the edge of every side of the roof, including the gables. Electric candles lit every window, lights covered every bush and tree (except the full size trees) in the yard. I even bordered the sides of the driveway and sidewalk in lights.
So, I am no Scrooge, believe me!
But don't you think September is just a little early to be putting up Christmas trees?
We are going to be sick of Christmas before it even gets here!
I just dismissed all of this as a bunch of "Hoosier Foolishness" earlier today, but after talking to a friend of mine in Florida, I found out all the stores are doing the very same thing down there!
What happened to Halloween this year? Soon, we will be hearing about witches flying sleighs instead of brooms, Santa stirring a cauldron and vampire bats on top of Christmas trees.
Can anyone say "Casper the Red Ass Specter"?