We almost made it without getting a tree. My Sweet Lady and I were not against having one, it just seemed like more work than was necessary in a season of already doing too much. And the point of the season is to be quiet and watchful. Probably hard to find that in the Christmas ads, right? Probably because the Christmas season is not about being quiet and watchful. [Editors’ note: we thought this was a contradiction to what he said two sentences before until we kept reading.]
I did not make the argument that 2001 was actually the start of the new millennium, but I’m about to be just as annoying as that guy. See, thing is that until tomorrow, we are in the season of Advent. It’s kind of like Lent except for Christmas and you don’t have to give up stuff. Churches, if they are paying attention, don’t sing Christmas hymns until Christmas day and then up until Epiphany. That’s the day the Wiseguys showed up. Bonus points if you know how long it took them to get there.
Longer than it took me to agree to get a tree, I assure you. Tallulah was freaking about the prospect of Christmas Eve with no tree, and we were by no means prepared to make an argument. Trees are cheap on Christmas Eve, by the way. And I kind of like the idea of not decorating before the season arrives. Gives the happy clappy folks up the road something to think about. Not that I expect to get any farther with them than I might with the folks at Target. Who were putting out Valentine’s Day stuff this morning.