It's beginning to look a lot like...

edited: I forgot to put in my C.B. picture! See below...

I try so hard to hold out til after Thanksgiving, but I'm beginning to think it's a lost cause...

I'm already in the Christmas spirit!

I blame facebook. Partly because it's just really easy to blame facebook for all the woes of society: identity theft, cyber bullying, the health care bill... But, I also blame facebook because if it weren't for all the status updates of my not-waiting-till-after-Thanksgiving friends, I wouldn't have even thought about Christmas yet. I've been so busy recovering from all my travels, getting my Halloween costume ready (picture below), and buying furniture, that I simply had not even considered Christmas.

That is, I hadn't considered it until my friends pulled out the Christmas music on November 1 - and started FB'ing about it. Mariah Carey has a new Christmas album - how am I supposed to wait to listen to that? It's the only time of year I actually like Mimi! Then, they started in on the statuses about Christmas movies and hot chocolate. If there's one thing I'm a sucker for, it's Christmas movies and hot chocolate! And, THEN, it snowed in Rhode Island yesterday! I'm an even bigger sucker for snow than I am for Christmas movies and hot chocolate! (My fervent prayer is that when I'm there for Thanksgiving, they will get an early winter blizzard, and I will be stuck there for days! Please, oh, please!)

But, what really did me in was the fateful trip today to Michael's. That store is seriously a Christmas wonderland. It looks like Christmas. It smells like Christmas. It entices me to buy Christmas-y things - like ornaments, and baskets, and manger scenes!

Somehow, though, I held strong. I bought nothing at Michael's, figuring that it would all still be there after Thanksgiving. And, if it isn't, I didn't really need it anyway.

I cannot, however, say the same for my trip to Wal-Mart. There, I came across the $5 bin of movies, and I always stop there, just in case. Good thing I did tonight, as I hit the Christmas movie jackpot!

Let me rephrase - jackpot may be a little extreme, considering I have only seen and therefore know I like one of the 43 movies I bought.

Yes, you read that right. 43. But, I can explain!

You see, these are cheap movies. So, they are packaged together. One DVD has 4 made-for-TV movies on it. All terribly cheesy, I'm sure - but I'm not picky about Christmas movies. Bring on the cheese!

The other DVD is actually two in one. One disk has 12 older Christmas movies, including the original Miracle on 34th Street. I would have bought it for that movie alone, but I'll be interested to see "Little Women: Jo's Story" and "Little Women: Meg's Story", too. The other disk has 27 cartoons, including THE "Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer" (I'm assuming it's the real one. Hopefully I will not be unpleasantly surprised.)

So, altogether, I spent $10 for 43 movies. I can't really do math right now, but that's a really, really small amount per movie.

Now, if only I could had some egg nog...

And here is Charlie Brown - 2010 style.