#23-25 Celebrate the season, damn it

Thanksgiving Day is the Official Beginning of the Holiday Season, and I will confess right here: I love it.  I couldn’t be a Scrooge if you paid me (though I am taking bids).  No, I’m pretty much one of those annoying people who truly love the holidays, and here are just a few of my favorite things about it:

• I’m actually not much of a foodie, my palat being only a few degrees more discerning than that of your average cockerspaniel. But I know what I like. And it wouldn’t be the holidays without holiday food - turkey, potatoes, cornbread stuffing, roasted vegetables, pumpkin pie, wine. I look forward to the tryptophan high of Turkey Day and Christmas, as well as the endless Left-over Lunches. I will gladly jog a country mile for that country sourdough roll. And if you don’t want to draw back a bloody stump, getcher mitt offa my pie.
• One of Kevin’s (repeatable) nicknames for me is Shiny Crow, so called for my inexplicable and uncontrollable gravitation toward all things shiny and sparkly. The holiday season is, therefore, Shiny Crow crack. A dead tree in the living room comes alive with colorful glass balls, that wierd stretchy silver shit “tinsel,” and lights that flash like to give you epilepsy. Hang more o’ them lights on the porch, the garage, and the cubicle at work - make ‘em a veritable fire hazard. Wear the glittery earrings, the rhinestone-accented party dress, the gold dust in your hair. Light the candles - make your spirit bright.
• Only blah-blah-blah shopping days left. I love to shop, but not being independently wealthy, I try to reign it in 10 months of the year. Even as the holiday season descends upon me, visions of Christmas lists dancing in my head, I try to curb my enthusiasm: come Black Friday, I recite my vow: “I’m not buying anything for anyone. We all have too damn much as it is. I shall not contribute to the rampant consumerism poisoning our culture.” And then before I know it, it’s a New Year and I’ve blown a good sized wad on various friends, family, a street kid, and a low-income family. This year’s mantra: Don’t fight it.

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