Can someone please help me out here?
I love Christmas just as much as the next person, but… honestly… We are in the middle of June. What ever happened to things having their time and place?
I will add, that’s not a Utah plate on that car. So don’t even think of blaming a Utahn.
I took this picture with my camera phone on my way home from work.
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could someone please explain to me what a UTAHN is,[is sounds really rude.]
CU DCJFAN XXX
Okay, Don… I’ve gone and done it. I posted my own “Christmas in July” adventure on my blog. Go check it out (and I give you full approval to think I’m as soft in the head as the dude with the Mr. and Mrs. Claus on the back of his Jeep!
BUT… in my own defense, I think my rationale is much more reasonable than Mr. Jeep guy’s is!
Go look and tell me what you think.
xox,
C.
….”But now that I think about it, I seem to recall seeing a photograph of your aunt and father with your father dressed as Marie….”
Ha…I have that very photo on the cover of my address book. I showed it to someone once and said ‘who do you think that is’?…they said Marie isnt it?..Lol…the likeness is uncanny.
I don’t like Christmas much at Christmas time so don’t bring it to me in July…or even in November. Don’t get me wrong, I am a Christian and I do celebrate by going to Midnight Mass…but the whole Christmas ‘thing’ drives me nuts and I can’t wait for it all to be over and the New Year starting….thats my favourite time of year…:)
I live in SC, about 25 miles from Georgia. Now, in these “heeyah pahts”, I have seen sofas on the front porch, and mattresses suspended from ropes hanging from trees as if they were hammocks, and Christmas lights and decorations bedecking the single-wide all year round, not to mention the common “cahs on cindah blocks yahd aht”. But this, no, this is new, and also nothing………considering that mattress hanging from ropes in a tree thing.
We once paid our respects to one of my husband’s workers’ family. They were from Georgia. Imagine our surprise when the address turned out to be a singlewide trailer with an open casket coffin sitting in the middle of it! We turn up in our fancy funeralizing-pay-our-respect-suits to be greeted by shirtless (and belching!) men drinking beer, barefoot (and dirty) children running in and out to poke the deceased, while someone from the kitchen hollered to shut the door because they needed to keep Grandpa cool!
Too bad this predates my camera phone. Not that it would have mattered. My husband and I were motionless and speechless in our surprise.
Not to say all Georgians are like that. They certainly are not. But you know………cut them a break….they are just out there doing there own thing and sometimes that thing is just…well……beyond belief. As it happpens across our great land every day. Anywhere. And everywhere. This is nothing!
I don’t care what they do. They will never convince me to discard my next mattress for the nearest shade tree….. or lay my Dad out in the closest singlewide. And no plastic snowman or wheelcover in June is going to diminish MY Christmas one bit.
But now that I think about it, I seem to recall seeing a photograph of your aunt and father with your father dressed as Marie, and Marie dressed as a witch for Halloween with what looked like Christmas garland in your Aunt’s foyer. You couldn’t tell if it had been there since last Christmas or was just preparation for the next Christmas. In any event, it was Halloween with a tranny looking Marie posing with a witch-Marie and garland. And what about all those Christmas shows which were taped…..when?
Uh-huhm!
We celebrate what we call Summer Christmas every August with my husband’s extended family. There’s not enough of us to call a summer family event a reunion and we see each other all the time anyway. But as Summer Christmas it is as important to show up for it as Christmas is. Everybody comes together from far and wide at one time and you are in big, big trouble if you don’t turn up for Summer Christmas. We love it! We even exchange gifts we call birthday gifts.
I also have a friend who owns a Christmas shop and another friend who is an antique dealer who collects all things Christmas. Her house is loaded with Christmas all year round. She has a very cheerful decor!
I think Don needs to get out more and lighten up.
Sign me,
That will be Mrs. W to you
PS: I totally understand the hours of the PR person. I loved PR and event planning but I had to let it and the crazy, long hours go when I became the Mrs. Fun work. I still miss it.
Don that picture is just too funny! Thanks for posting that!
But look at it this way.
They will be ready for Christmas!
Was that on I 15?
When I was in Utah this spring to visit my kids.
I rode the new Front Runner
train from Ogden to SLC
to get back to the Airport.
It was great!!
Pamela in Ohio
Well, I don’t know what it’s like in the States, but here in Aus we even get Easter eggs and Hot Cross Buns in January. Perhaps Santa’s just trying to get some extra $$$ to pay for his mortgage.
And tell me, what’s this with Utahns and bad driving?
Many, MANY moons ago, I worked for a PR office. I can remember being there until 2:30 in the morning, trying to get materials together for the President’s 8:00 a.m. meeting with a HUGE prospective client.
That was one of the many nights I went home to take a “nap”, shower, and change into clean clothes before heading back into work the next day.
I loved the job, but the it was an all-women office, and MAN, was it Hell on wheels when the hormones were all raging at the same time! And, a lot of the upper echelon were very snooty (or… is that snotty?
)
Are you allowed to “name drop” a little and tell us who some of your clients are? If it’s a conflict of confidentiality, that’s okay.
xox,
C.
Nothing wrong with spreading some Christmas cheer.
As Elvis sang “If every day could be just like Christmas, what a wonderful world this would be.”
I have to say though, that’s pretty funny. Would make it easy to spot your car in a mall parking lot… look for Santa!
10 hours a day; 4 days a week. I wish!
I’m in PR. Even when the day is done, the work isn’t. I was at Kinko’s last night at 11:30 printing off some stuff for a client.
When in PR you are on the clock 24/7. The media never sleeps.
I love Christmas too, and can not wait until the Saturday after Thanksgiving to decorate the house.
One of my whacked in the head neighbors leaves his Christmas lights up all year long. Of course this is the same neighbor who leaves his trash can on the curb 365/24/7, and only mows his lawn when his next door neighbor complains.
Mr. Christmas Lights-Garbage Can wonders why the neighborhood kids tp his yard all the time? Hmm, maybe its because the light strings make great tp hangers, and the kids can easily throw away the tp rolls when they are done?
A few weeks ago, this man’s cars were “saran wrapped” by the neighborhood kids, and the kids attached a strand of battery operated lights around the car. It was hilarious!
Speaking of chillaxing:
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/jobs/_a/utah-will-institute-a-4-day-work-week/20080701135709990001?icid=200100397x1204942281x1200223378
How do you feel about that one, Don?
I know I would have totally been for it when I was working, ’cause I was typically clocking in 10-hour days, anyway!
I think it’s a great idea to have one “weekday” off. That way, a person can schedule things like doctors and dentists apppointments, do their banking, pick up prescriptions, etc., without having to take time off from work.
xox,
C.
Again may I remind you, I still think it was Santa incognito….Hey he is used to driving the sleigh, cut him some slack!
Maybe he was ticked off ’cause Santa put him to work (in the heat, I presume?) while the Mr. and Mrs. were up in the North Pole, chillaxing!
C.
If that was one of Santa’s helpers, he sure has bad driving etiquette. Swerving back and forth, cutting people off.
Maybe Santa should put him on the naughty list?
Have you ever heard of incognito…..
I listen to Christmas music right after Thanksgiving too, Karyn (there’s a certain “family” album that’s among one of my favorites!
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And Susy, since Don said the person driving the Jeep didn’t resemble Mr. Claus, how about the possible theory that he could have been one of Santa’s helpers, out and about, checking that list for Santa? I tell my kids all year ’round that Santa’s keeping an eye on them, making sure they stay on that “nice” list. So, it could be that I’m right, after all!
xox,
C.
I thought for SURE you were going to tell me that they were from Michigan:
http://www.santaclausschool.com/index1.htm
I must confess… I LOVE Christmas, and I could very easily become one of the afore mentioned “crazies” that has my house decorated all year long. But, I restrain myself until the weekend after Thanksgiving! Then EVERY room in my house gets decorated somehow!
xox,
C.
If it was Santa, he sure has lost a lot of weight. (I peeked in the car as I drove past.) And, he got a shave and a haircut — along with some great hair dye.
I’m glad Mama C pointed out it’s not July. And with July comes “Christmas in July.”
If I could I’d have christmas all year round. In fact I listen to christmas songs year round. On my mp3 player I have christmas songs on it, and when I was in Utah last month, I was listening to them with my niece and that night a family friend was over and he on his own accord started humming a christmas song.. so June is a good time to remember Christmas.
I’m going with you on this one Don….Usually LDS and Utahan’s(I can say this because I am LDS and spent 4 great years in the state) We start the Christmas thing by Halloween…so we don’t worship all those ghouls. Alright I don’t, because I love Halloween, it’s fun. But I know quite a few and I mean quite a few people who would rather sack that whole Pagan ritual (as I have heard it called.)and get on with celebrating Christ. Sorry about the rant!
Now as for the Jeep and the Santa and the Mrs. Claus wheel cover Maybe it was Santa driving the Jeep, it is red you know, and he was cruising around Utah checking on who is naughty or nice! Know here is a posing question which are you? What list are you on?…..
Whether the driver is a Utahn or not, he/she was representing the great state of Georgia!
I suppose I should have clarified that I took the picture in the middle of June… Ooops.
Some people just LIVE for Christmas. Haven’t you seen the specials on TV stations like HGTV, where people have their homes decorated for Christmas all year long? Or, what about the crazies who start setting up their outdoor light displays in October, because of the 3479873234297443974342342 lights they put outside for the holiday??
And listen mister… just ’cause they didn’t have a Utah plate, doesn’t mean they’re not FROM Utah! Don’t try to pull the wool over our eyes (or should I say, the Santa beard over our faces?
Oh, and BTW… it’s not the middle of June. It’s the beginning of July. Maybe moving ahead a month makes a difference to some people (there IS such a marketing ploy as “Christmas in July”, after all!)
Hope you and your family enjoy the holiday!
xox,
C.