{"id":34505,"date":"2025-11-03T09:47:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34505"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:51:55","slug":"a-new-annual-tradition-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/03\/a-new-annual-tradition-i-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Annual Tradition, I Guess"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2023, I was feeling a bit low in early November, so I bought a little resin Santa<\/a> and put it on the mantel to see if and when my family would notice.<\/p>\n

I did the same last year<\/a> with a little “winter village” figurine because it was only four bucks at Walmart.<\/p>\n

This year, I’ve done the same:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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<\/em> and Erin Bode’s A Cold December Night<\/em> while reading last night. So, yes.<\/p>\n

Christmas shopping? Not yet. As the years go on, I seem to be getting lazier and lazier about it.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b><\/font> Should I have marked this post as NSFW since I put the figurine next to Rodin’s The Kiss<\/em>? 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<\/em>, gentle reader. It is unkind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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