Christmas Time :)

What do you think about starting the Christmas season before Thanksgiving; how radio stations play Christmas music before Thanksgiving and all the stores start setting up. Where did all the Thanksgiving decorations go? I feel like you have to search hard for the Thanksgiving decorations.

When my roommate and I went to Target to buy stuff, I honestly do not remember what we went to get, we saw the Christmas stuff in the holiday section and we saw a pink Christmas tree with a pink tree skirt, and pink tree topper with pink ornaments and pink garland. My roommate and I like it causes it will match our pink room but everyone else is like “you should at least have a green Christmas tree” but then everything else can be pink. I do not understand because I like the pink tree because it is something different and not the same old same old. Do you think we should go back to Target to get the pink tree?

As my roommate and I were in that section we saw colorful Christmas lights and decided to buy them because they were only two dollars a strand. Each one bought a strand and decided to hang it all around the room. Now everyone is like “do you not know that Christmas is after Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving has not happened yet?” We say yes but we like them so it really does not matter. Plus rooms have had Christmas lights since we got here in August. I think it is just a college dorm room thing, personally. Do you have Christmas lights in your dorm room?

I was joking around with my roommate the other day saying since it is November, I bet there is a Christmas station on the radio. She was said “I think we should wait until after Thanksgiving to find it since we both like the radio station we are using now.” I forgot the channel but all it plays is popular music. I like it because since I have been at college I feel so isolated from the real world because I do not know what is going on. I listen to my iPod all the time so, it is hard to know the new songs everyone is singing. I do not like feeling out of the loop. We both agree that we would not find this radio station until after Thanksgiving. What do you think about the radio stations playing Christmas music before Thanksgiving?

I cannot wait until Christmas. There is something about Christmas, when everyone gets really nice and it only lasts until New Years and then everyone goes back to being the way they were before Thanksgiving. (Except for Black Friday, people go wild to start buying their Christmas presents. I know they have the best deals but every year, you always hear about someone dying because of a mad rush into the store. It is ridiculous if you ask me. Someone dies because they went shopping.) For example, everyone is trying to get gifts for the children’s parents that cannot afford them. The homeless shelters give away gifts to keep the homeless warm. Churches spend more time giving them a home in the winter than they do in the summer which never made any sense to me because they are going to be just as hot in the summer time as they are cold in the winter. Why cannot people be this nice all year? I understand that Jesus was born and American in general (I know I am stereotyping) goes all out and celebrating this holiday. We all start being really nice and giving and caring but does not Jesus want us to do this all year and not just during his birth day? Virginia Tech does a good job about caring all year round or at least during the school year because we have to get a certain amount of community service hours. I like that. Sometimes it feels like the whole reason why we are celebrating the holiday is gone because people focus too much on the gifts and not the good spirits. I know I just said up above that everyone gets nice and all the good spirits but with the good spirits comes the stress of the holiday. Getting all the Christmas presents for everyone and not leaving anyone out, making sure to have enough money to afford presents, etc.

For me, I have volunteered for Toys for Tots. What I did was go to a warehouse and everyone that received cards in the mail could come get some toys for their children to give to them Christmas morning. After volunteering, I am always in the Christmas spirit. We push the carts around and the soldiers go around and they just start putting stuff in the carts. At the end, the parent gets a Christmas present. They get so touched that they are getting a present they start crying and saying “Thank You” like a million times. This always makes me feel so good inside and like a helped someone out for Christmas. Everyone gets the Christmas spirit in different ways, for me it is volunteering for Toys for Tots. What helps you get the Christmas spirit?

Okay this is random but I have to admit that I have never watched Star Wars until last Friday. I saw episode three when it came out in the movie theatres because my best friend dragged me to go see it with her. Last Friday, I watched the fourth episode, you know the first one. I asked so many questions to figure out what was going on. It was really good; I did like it. My friends said to me when they found out that I have never watched Star Wars that I was a nerd wanna be lol. Well now I have seen it and I am not a nerd wanna be anymore. J