I doubt I’ll do much Christmas decorating this year; it would just remind me of the boy and all the fun we had every year (that fuzzball was always entertaining when he got his presents). That doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate what other people do. Just not that creepy display in D.C.
One of my favorite reactions to the White House Christmas display.
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Oh, Frosty, stop with the come-hither … I’m not biting.
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This is me right now … except I don’t have any lights at home at the moment.
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Hey, skeletons can have the Christmas spirit too!
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I was wondering where my air freshener went.
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No, not creepy at all …
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OK, the stalkery vibe is getting too thick here …
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Hey, Godzilla, Mothra’s your secret Santa.
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Everybody else is kicking themselves for not thinking of this.
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Speaking of the Grinch …
Wait … am I the Grinch? Meh, I can live with that.
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Serenity is a fuzzy belly 
Every year, the War on Christmas seems to start earlier. Somebody wished me Happy Holidays before Thanksgiving. Meh.
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How dare they!
There’s a certain retailer I know longer patronize that always has Christmas things out by July. Between that and their backward stance on just about everything, I am thrilled to no longer shop there.
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“I’m Gettin’ Nuttin’ For Christmas” would be appropriate for me this year because I have been such a bad boy. I played the barking dogs singing “Jingle Bells” for my dog and all he did was sit there with a confused look on his furry face.
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But that’s one of the best things about furkids … You can do all sorts of stuff to confuse them. I think Santa would understand. 😉
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I relate to the Meh photo. Between dealing with grief and portfolio hell, I’m not in the mood to decorate. Too little time; too many memories. I gave our tree and lights away to a coworker. Church was good today though. I’m trying to focus more on Advent instead of how little Christmas cheer I have.
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Understand completely. I just can’t work myself into being merry right now.
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I was at Kroger last night, and the music alternated between love songs and Christmas music. Now I know how the Grinch felt with all the “noise noise noise noise.” I have grown fonder of the Grinch lately.
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The Grinch had a lot of good points. Too much noise and far too many bad Christmas songs.
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I think the Grinch was misunderstood. I can see why he resorted to stealing all the toys and the “roast beast.” Of course, “he didn’t stop Christmas from coming.”
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He was. He always had good in him.
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Totally unrelated, but I just embedded a PDF into my WordPress portfolio website without using a plugin!!! Not bad for an older Gen-Xer!
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Excellent! We Gen Xers rock! 💻
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Yes, we do! Those darned millennials better get off my lawn!
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Dang right! 👵🏻
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Since my dog was so confused by the dogs singing “Jingle Bells”, I did something for him that he could appreciate–I scratched his head and rubbed his belly. He got a blissful look on his face as if he was in Doggie Heaven.
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Awwwww! 🐶
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When I was eight, I learned about spoonerisms. During a trip around Christmas to visit relatives in Missouri, I decided to serenade my parents and my sisters by singing “Bingle Jells, Bingle Jells, wingle all the jay. Oh fhat wun it is ro tide in a one slorse open heigh.” My two younger sisters picked up on this and began singing along with me. Yes this was typical behavior for me. Sometimes I wonder why my parents didn’t think of putting me up for adoption.
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I wonder that as well. 😉
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My father would probably have said “NO” to putting me up for adoption because I was the only boy he had and he was a typical man in many ways. Have you see any of the Jingle Cats videos on YouTube?
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I think I have, but not lately.
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I think they are funny but I can’t help it if I am an ailurophile.
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None of us can. 🐱
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I swore off Christmas years ago, but I try not to let my mood be a downer for others. Love the “Meh” decoration.
After viewing a photo tour of the White House Christmas decorations, my only thought was “Did they have to cut down the whole forest!?” I know, I know, tree farms, yada, yada. But it still seemed excessive.
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Well, the trees were in the way of all that oil and coal, so they had to go. 😉
I’m just shocked everything wasn’t gold. The sticks, though … Just creepy.
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Speaking as a musician who has played many different versions of many different Christmas songs (both religious and secular) over the years, I think the one song which really expresses the genuine reason we are celebrating with parties and decorating our houses and having special services in church at this time of the year is: “Mary Had A Baby”. Yes I know the religious experts cannot agree on which day Jesus was actually born but I am going to stay out of and away from that discussion because it is controversial. Besides, as a bass player, I am merely one of the backup musicians/sidemen/accompanists instead of the leader of the band or the preacher which means that I am supposedly not an expert on this subject.
I have had to play so many secular Christmas songs (such as “White Christmas”) which are so syrupy, schmaltzy, and sentimental. I am sure other readers of this comment can all too easily think of Christmas songs which are even more syrupy, schmaltzy, and sentimental. After growing up in Chicago where we always had a white Christmas whether or not we wanted one, dreaming of a white Christmas is more like a nightmare for me.
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White Christmas has always been one of my favorites, along with War Is Over and Mary Did You Know. And of course, the choral geek in me loves Carol of the Bells and Good King Wenceslaus. 🎼
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Brenda do you remember the comic strip POGO by the late Walt Kelly? He put a parody of “Good King Wenceslaus” in POGO. It started, “Good King Sauerkraut looked out on his feets uneven” and went downhill from there. Since I no longer have the comic strip, I do not remember the rest of Kelly’s version of this song.
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I think it might have been gone by the time I started reading the comics, but I’ve seen several of them.
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Kelly was a word nerd who liked playing with words and language in his comic strip. Also he did not hesitate to attack and criticize politicians and anyone else he felt should be satirized. He could be very funny when he wanted to be.
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I suspect that reading POGO when I was a boy helped expand my vocabulary and improve my reading skills. My father had several collections of POGO comic strips.
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