Well, I've done it...

Come midnight tonight, for the second year in a row, I will have made it through the entire holiday season without once hearing Mariah Carey singing "All I Want For Christmas Is You".

See?  It is possible after all!

It wasn't easy sometimes.  Like whenever I went inside a grocery store and had to brace myself for hearing that song over the supermarket's music system.  I made very sure that I ducked in and quickly got my stuff and then ran out

Allow me the opportunity to once again state that Christmas music does not belong anywhere before Thanksgiving.  As always around here, there were radio stations that began playing holiday songs on the morning after Halloween.  That is damn too early!!  Just as Christmas decor doesn't belong in stores even before Labor Day.  When the radio stations and retailers do things like that, all it does is make the year seem to go by much faster.  When instead the year should progress on its own accord, with every moment precious, instead of rushing through the last one-third of the year.

I must confess, I've had some help with skipping the Christmas music.  Ever since last month and continuing for the next week or so, I've been listening to WSQK The Squawk.  It's a 24-hours around the clock pop-up Internet radio station that's a promo for this final season of Stranger Things.  WSQK is far from a mere gimmick however.  There are some solid songs from the Eighties and a bit earlier in its playlist, as much as any "real" radio station is ideally going to have.  It's been a fun thing to have playing in the background while I work on stuff.  Check it out!

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It's five days until Thanksgiving 2025

 Remember...

A bit of classic humor from good friend of this blog Lee Shelton who first created this pic in 2009 :-) 

(In case anyone's wondering, I will sadly not be deep frying a Thanksgiving turkey this year.  Maybe for Christmas though...)

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Play that Mariah Carey song and it'll be THREE kittens...

Yes, at  12:01 this morning a lot of radio stations began their playing two entire months of Christmas music.  Something which I have never liked.

Good friend of this blog Lee Shelton made this graphic several years ago.  He said that it's time to bring it back out and I agree wholeheartedly...

Wow.  The original pic is from 2004.  A few months before I began this blog.  I weigh about 30 pounds more now.  A lot of that I gained in a very short period of time beginning in late 2008, after going on some medication for treatment mostly of depression.  I lost most of that but some of it still lingers.  I think that twenty years later I'm looking pretty healthy.

That's my father you see behind me.  I remember exactly which cap it is that he's wearing.

Okay well anyhoo, you have all been duly notified.  Look, I don't mind Christmas music for a few days after Christmas.  But before Thanksgiving is WAY too early.  It's making the year seem to go by much faster than it should.  There is no rational reason for it.  So, why the %@$& do radio stations DO it?

If radio stations still had human disk jockies I could probably call them and ask.  I guess we'll just never know.

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