In 2023, I was feeling a bit low in early November, so I bought a little resin Santa and put it on the mantel to see if and when my family would notice.
I did the same last year with a little “winter village” figurine because it was only four bucks at Walmart.
This year, I’ve done the same:
I guess I’ll have to be careful if I keep buying the four dollar ones from Walmart to make sure I don’t get a duplicate. Or do they release fresh new figurines every year? I dunno.
Have I listened to Christmas music yet? Well, one of the records I picked up recently had “Sleigh Ride” to start the second side even though it was not a Christmas album, so, yes. And I listened to Jessy J’s California Christmas and Erin Bode’s A Cold December Night while reading last night. So, yes.
Christmas shopping? Not yet. As the years go on, I seem to be getting lazier and lazier about it.
UPDATE: Should I have marked this post as NSFW since I put the figurine next to Rodin’s The Kiss? We had that in our place in the projects in the 1970s, and I believe they have or had a casting of it at the Milwaukee Art Museum, so I would assume it’s kid-friendly. But your workplace might not think so. Try not to flaunt the fact that you have a workplace, gentle reader. It is unkind.
