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Well first off I just want to say that I really am happy to have discovered this forum and this community and I want to thank the moderators for allowing me to come on here and post. For too long I have felt like the only person with a never ending longing for Christmas and the Holiday Season overall. I think about it all year and listen to the Charlie Brown Christmas album all the time, theres enough standard jazz elements that make it a decent listen any time of year. Theres even a few stores I frequent merely because they keep a small year round discounted Christmas/Thanksgiving/Halloween section. For me, the real anticipation starts during June/July with Christmas in July and it doesn't really stop, especially as you slowly see more and more signs of it in malls and stores, with full displays up earlier and earlier, something people bemoan, that I completely welcome. People often criticize the commercialization of Christmas, but sometimes malls and stores are some of the few places you can go during the season and just be fully immersed in any and all things Christmas. It blends right into Sept/Oct, Fall, and Halloween, a season I love (the decorations, the costumes, the horror) and fully consider to be part of "The Holidays" because of the overall festive nature and collective spirit that leads us right into Nov/Dec/Jan. Which is just the best time of year, where Thanksgiving is pretty much a first Christmas, every day in December seems like its own holiday, and New Years is simply an extension of Christmas. And every year it seems to go by too quickly. You know how they say people often feel loneliest during the holidays. Kind of on that note, the time of year I feel loneliest is during the second half of January, the old Christmas blues, where it seems like for most people Christmas is a long past gone distant and faded memory, yet I can still be in full reflection and nostalgia for the season that just passed, and often act on it by deciding just one more day to do something Christmasy or festive, whether it's watch a DVR recording from Oct-Dec, listen to music, or on my daily drives look for even just the slightest sign that the Holidays were here. A number of years ago I felt it so strongly that I did a bit of research and learned about days like Epiphany and Candlemas and that the 12 days of Christmas starts ON Christmas and not 12 days before. I just knew that it couldn't have such an abrupt ending as I had previously thought, so I was pleased to discover that one can actually use the entire month of January to allow the Holidays to fizzle to a close. Nowadays, before I know it I'm watching the Super Bowl next to my Christmas tree (not the big one all decorated, just a small one with lights I usually have for myself, it's not as dry as you would think) and some small pumpkins I save. "The Holidays" for me is a whole 5 month period starting from the calm of September through the closing of January, and I live for it. So, here I am, thought there had to be some Christmas and Holiday forums out there, and during my first browsings of this site I was very happy to see discussions that ranged from countdowns, to really early first signs of Christmas, to something I've always done which is look for as many houses as you can with lights still on as late into the year as you can. As I read more and more posts I decided to register and that I wanted to share my thoughts to a community that would understand and appreciate it. For an internet forum you all seem like a tight knit group. I live in Los Angeles now, which doesn't exactly lend itself to being a winter wonderland, and is a reason it is sometimes hard to stay in Holiday spirit when it is predominantly summer type weather in Nov/Dec/Jan. I know a lot of people right now are experiencing some bad snow storms, but I want to find an area that experiences more of the type of wintery weather and festivities that would make me feel more at home, maybe during my upcoming travels find a nice little mountain town to settle down in. It might be hard to believe this is all coming from a heavy metal listening 28 year old with plans to enter the military soon. But before I go off and do that, as I said, I just wanted to come on here and share my thoughts. Thanks. I look forward to being an active member of this community.
 
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noodlenoggin said:
Well first off I just want to say that I really am happy to have discovered this forum and this community and I want to thank the moderators for allowing me to come on here and post. For too long I have felt like the only person with a never ending longing for Christmas and the Holiday Season overall. I think about it all year and listen to the Charlie Brown Christmas album all the time, theres enough standard jazz elements that make it a decent listen any time of year. Theres even a few stores I frequent merely because they keep a small year round discounted Christmas/Thanksgiving/Halloween section. For me, the real anticipation starts during June/July with Christmas in July and it doesn't really stop, especially as you slowly see more and more signs of it in malls and stores, with full displays up earlier and earlier, something people bemoan, that I completely welcome. People often criticize the commercialization of Christmas, but sometimes malls and stores are some of the few places you can go during the season and just be fully immersed in any and all things Christmas. It blends right into Sept/Oct, Fall, and Halloween, a season I love (the decorations, the costumes, the horror) and fully consider to be part of "The Holidays" because of the overall festive nature and collective spirit that leads us right into Nov/Dec/Jan. Which is just the best time of year, where Thanksgiving is pretty much a first Christmas, every day in December seems like its own holiday, and New Years is simply an extension of Christmas. And every year it seems to go by too quickly. You know how they say people often feel loneliest during the holidays. Kind of on that note, the time of year I feel loneliest is during the second half of January, the old Christmas blues, where it seems like for most people Christmas is a long past gone distant and faded memory, yet I can still be in full reflection and nostalgia for the season that just passed, and often act on it by deciding just one more day to do something Christmasy or festive, whether it's watch a DVR recording from Oct-Dec, listen to music, or on my daily drives look for even just the slightest sign that the Holidays were here. A number of years ago I felt it so strongly that I did a bit of research and learned about days like Epiphany and Candlemas and that the 12 days of Christmas starts ON Christmas and not 12 days before. I just knew that it couldn't have such an abrupt ending as I had previously thought, so I was pleased to discover that one can actually use the entire month of January to allow the Holidays to fizzle to a close. Nowadays, before I know it I'm watching the Super Bowl next to my Christmas tree (not the big one all decorated, just a small one with lights I usually have for myself, it's not as dry as you would think) and some small pumpkins I save. "The Holidays" for me is a whole 5 month period starting from the calm of September through the closing of January, and I live for it. So, here I am, thought there had to be some Christmas and Holiday forums out there, and during my first browsings of this site I was very happy to see discussions that ranged from countdowns, to really early first signs of Christmas, to something I've always done which is look for as many houses as you can with lights still on as late into the year as you can. As I read more and more posts I decided to register and that I wanted to share my thoughts to a community that would understand and appreciate it. For an internet forum you all seem like a tight knit group. I live in Los Angeles now, which doesn't exactly lend itself to being a winter wonderland, and is a reason it is sometimes hard to stay in Holiday spirit when it is predominantly summer type weather in Nov/Dec/Jan. I know a lot of people right now are experiencing some bad snow storms, but I want to find an area that experiences more of the type of wintery weather and festivities that would make me feel more at home, maybe during my upcoming travels find a nice little mountain town to settle down in. It might be hard to believe this is all coming from a heavy metal listening 28 year old with plans to enter the military soon. But before I go off and do that, as I said, I just wanted to come on here and share my thoughts. Thanks. I look forward to being an active member of this community.
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Spent all morning watching clips from DVR recordings of some of my favorite holiday specials that aired this past season. Just can't get over it. Hard to believe only 5 weeks ago I was at Disneyland completely immersed in everything and anything Christmas. Funny how Disneyland is actually about the only place you can go a week after New Years and still find anything like that.
 
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Welcome to MMC noodlenoggin. Trust me, you will fit in perfectly with the rest of us Christmas nuts. It's a festive Christmas spirit here all year around!!
 
noodlenoggin said:
Well first off I just want to say that I really am happy to have discovered this forum and this community and I want to thank the moderators for allowing me to come on here and post. For too long I have felt like the only person with a never ending longing for Christmas and the Holiday Season overall. I think about it all year and listen to the Charlie Brown Christmas album all the time, theres enough standard jazz elements that make it a decent listen any time of year. Theres even a few stores I frequent merely because they keep a small year round discounted Christmas/Thanksgiving/Halloween section. For me, the real anticipation starts during June/July with Christmas in July and it doesn't really stop, especially as you slowly see more and more signs of it in malls and stores, with full displays up earlier and earlier, something people bemoan, that I completely welcome. People often criticize the commercialization of Christmas, but sometimes malls and stores are some of the few places you can go during the season and just be fully immersed in any and all things Christmas. It blends right into Sept/Oct, Fall, and Halloween, a season I love (the decorations, the costumes, the horror) and fully consider to be part of "The Holidays" because of the overall festive nature and collective spirit that leads us right into Nov/Dec/Jan. Which is just the best time of year, where Thanksgiving is pretty much a first Christmas, every day in December seems like its own holiday, and New Years is simply an extension of Christmas. And every year it seems to go by too quickly. You know how they say people often feel loneliest during the holidays. Kind of on that note, the time of year I feel loneliest is during the second half of January, the old Christmas blues, where it seems like for most people Christmas is a long past gone distant and faded memory, yet I can still be in full reflection and nostalgia for the season that just passed, and often act on it by deciding just one more day to do something Christmasy or festive, whether it's watch a DVR recording from Oct-Dec, listen to music, or on my daily drives look for even just the slightest sign that the Holidays were here. A number of years ago I felt it so strongly that I did a bit of research and learned about days like Epiphany and Candlemas and that the 12 days of Christmas starts ON Christmas and not 12 days before. I just knew that it couldn't have such an abrupt ending as I had previously thought, so I was pleased to discover that one can actually use the entire month of January to allow the Holidays to fizzle to a close. Nowadays, before I know it I'm watching the Super Bowl next to my Christmas tree (not the big one all decorated, just a small one with lights I usually have for myself, it's not as dry as you would think) and some small pumpkins I save. "The Holidays" for me is a whole 5 month period starting from the calm of September through the closing of January, and I live for it. So, here I am, thought there had to be some Christmas and Holiday forums out there, and during my first browsings of this site I was very happy to see discussions that ranged from countdowns, to really early first signs of Christmas, to something I've always done which is look for as many houses as you can with lights still on as late into the year as you can. As I read more and more posts I decided to register and that I wanted to share my thoughts to a community that would understand and appreciate it. For an internet forum you all seem like a tight knit group. I live in Los Angeles now, which doesn't exactly lend itself to being a winter wonderland, and is a reason it is sometimes hard to stay in Holiday spirit when it is predominantly summer type weather in Nov/Dec/Jan. I know a lot of people right now are experiencing some bad snow storms, but I want to find an area that experiences more of the type of wintery weather and festivities that would make me feel more at home, maybe during my upcoming travels find a nice little mountain town to settle down in. It might be hard to believe this is all coming from a heavy metal listening 28 year old with plans to enter the military soon. But before I go off and do that, as I said, I just wanted to come on here and share my thoughts. Thanks. I look forward to being an active member of this community.
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This was such a great post! So much here that we can all relate with. Thanks for sharing and welcome to MMC.
 
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