When does your holiday season start? For me it starts right after boxing day sales end, not kidding, I start my countdown then! However, I do wait to express my crazy to the world until closer to the actual time of year Christmas happens.
Doesn’t stop me from casually telling people how many days until Christmas at random times during the year, especially on hot summer days, but that is neither here nor there.
Normally I don’t decorate for Christmas, I go home to my family for Christmas and enjoy the decorations there. This year, as we all know, is a weird one, and I am not travelling home for Christmas, so it will be the cat and I making our own little traditions.
Step one was decorating!
My bestie Nicole years and years ago, when I moved away, mailed me a present in November. When I opened it I found a table top Christmas tree and all the lights and decorations for it. She knew I hadn’t brought any decorations with me when I moved and being a poor student couldn’t afford to go buy any, so she surprised me with them. Talk about thoughtful!
This year I pulled the tree out of the box, tried not to jump when a dead spider fell out of the tree when I was fluffing it out, and decorated it, all under the supervision of Striker, The Cat Overlord. That is his new title by the way, he gave it to himself earlier this year.
It’s beautiful and I love it!
Lucky for me Striker (the Cat Overlord) does not care even one little bit about the tree, even though he jumps up beside it to get to the windowsill. Apparently the tree is beneath his dignity to bother with.
Sometimes I think I have the least cat-like cat out there…
I also took a mini tree to work for my office, because why not?
I have a set of 3 baby Groots and thought I’d use the mini tree to make hair for one of them. Random? Sure. But it makes me smile so who cares?
Continuing with my enjoying the beginning of the season I watched my first holiday themed thing today, actually no, that is a lie, my bad. I watched Rise of the Guardians the other day and while it isn’t technically a “Christmas” movie, I think of it as one so I guess that was my first seasonal type thing to watch.
This evening after work I channeled the inner child in me and watched the Disney Holiday Sing Along. It is basically a bunch of celebrities singing various Christmas songs, but never the entire song, just a snippet, accompanied by Disney clips interspersed with their performance. I’ve never watched it before so don’t know if it is normally this format. It wasn’t amazing, and this is coming from a person who loves (1) Disney, (2) Christmas, and (3) singing when alone and no one can hear me.
I mean c’mon, if anyone was poised to enjoy this it was me, but alas, ’twas not meant to be.
The lovely sushi dinner I ordered in for myself, to get this season off to a yummy start was great though! I suppose if one of the things had to be not up to expectations better it was the show and not my dinner!
What do you start your holiday off with? Decorating? Shows? Food? We all do the holidays different, and this year we will all be doing them different than our usual traditions, but I hope yours gets off to a happy start, and continues to be happy all the way through! 🙂
The Amazing Shrinking Woman 
Groot sporting a Christmas tree hat somehow seems in keeping with his personality. I may have to swipe that idea. 😉
Non-traditional Christmas traditions are my forte. I typically don’t set up my Christmas tree until Christmas Eve, and I opt for a real tree that I plant out in the yard come spring. This year, I have been considering a sushi boat as my nod to the feast of the seven fishes, so I am happy your dinner was better than the movie. Merry Christmas. 🎄
Swipe away! I’m sure all Groots will enjoy a tree hat. 🙂
Wow, you plant your own Christmas tree, what a wonderful non-traditional tradition. You can never go wrong with sushi, in my humble opinion, and think a sushi boat sounds like a great idea. I hope it is delish!
Merry Christmas 🙂 and thank you for the lovely comment.