Pages Tagged “Holidays”
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- Been Waiting a While?
Saw this while out walking this morning. I guess holiday decorations can last as long as you want them to!
- Distant Halloween
Halloween was weird this year. OK, everything has been weird this year. I mean, I’ve been in the same place as my parents only once since…February? January? I forget. We stood out in their front yard one evening this summer, 10 feet apart, talking for about an hour. Hooray for living in a time when […]
- New front in holiday creep
Spotted at the grocery store today.
- Wait a minute…
Sign: Free pizza on Christmas Day! Closed Dec. 25.
- Ah yes, the grand Irish tradition of surfing
Sometimes I wonder about the “everyone — and everything — is Irish for a day” approach to St. Patrick’s Day.
- Reflecting into Shadow
Late afternoon sun reflecting off a decorated window into the shadow of an umbrella.
- Valentine’s Day Already?
It’s been less than a week past Christmas, and the local grocery store already has a fully stocked Valentine’s Day aisle. So much for New Year’s.
- Let it Snow! (Frozen edition)
How has Disney not done some variation on this for Christmas this year? A T-shirt, decorations, something.
- Holiday Creep at Costco
Photo: It’s barely October, and Costco already has ten times as much Christmas stuff as Halloween. And that’s not counting the vastly expanded toy section.
- Holiday Creep(y)
One nice thing about The Nightmare Before Christmas is that it’s good for anytime from October through December!
- Errand Observations
The Spectrum food court has ripped out the planters. I guess they realized they needed the floor space after they chopped off one end. It’s Halloween, so Target has the Christmas decorations up!
- Zune Fail, Comment Win & Holiday Creep
Weird: Zunes all over the world froze up at the same time overnight. Comment win: “like she was going to rip his arm off and beat his spleen to death with it. Not him; just his spleen” Just a quick store run – yeah along with everyone else in town. More holiday creep! I still […]
- Mall Crush
Must remember: just because the mall is the CLOSEST place to grab lunch doesn’t make it the BEST place, esp. 3 days before Christmas.
- Holiday Seasons: Then and Now
When I was a kid, I remember the last few months of the year broke down like this: Back to School in early-to-mid September Halloween for the second half of October Thanksgiving for the second half of November Christmas in December New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day These days it seems more like this: […]
- Clarify and Classify
If only the super high-tech jet fighters had identified, clarified & classified, they’d have seen the attack for what it really was. Good grief. “Traditional marriage” didn’t go away when gays were let into the club. It doesn’t need a discriminatory law to “restore” it. South Coast Plaza has Christmas decorations up ALREADY. Halloween doesn’t […]
- Raising the Dead
An unconventional church marquee spotted shortly before Easter.
- Christmas Creep On-Air
Went to lunch today, and the restaurant was playing Christmas music, two days before Thanksgiving. It wasn’t entirely their fault; they were just playing KOST, and the radio station had gone into full Christmas mode. Now, I normally like hearing Christmas music on the radio. It’s one of the few times of year that you […]
- Nightmare Before Christmas: 3-D Edition
This weekend we went out to see The Prestige, which was quite good. The next theater over was running The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D, and we figured, what the heck? After the first movie, we got tickets for another. The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my favorite movies, but for some reason the […]
- Swimming in Christmas Trees
The Macy’s in the Laguna Hills Mall has a small storefront for seasonal products. In the lead-up to Christmas it’s full of decorations, ornaments, wrapping paper, and such. During the summer, it was swimwear. (I’m not sure what they use it for in winter.) I walked by today, and they seem to be in transition: […]
- Know Your Holidays
Now there’s someone who has their priorities lined up. You can tell they’ve got a deep understanding of the true meaning of the holiday. Forget all that Mexican military victory stuff—it’s all about getting drunk on tequila and cervezas. Actually, now that I think about it, that probably is more or less how most Americans […]
- More Holiday Creep
Spotted the following in a grocery store on Saturday, three days before Valentine’s Day. I think the holiday decoration/candy/card industry has started selling two holidays ahead. Christmas stuff was out in October, with both Halloween and Thanksgiving ahead. Here’s Easter stuff on sale with both Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day in the future. Decoration-wise, […]
- Merry Christmas!
- Starbucks Early Holiday
I stopped in a Starbucks after lunch last Wednesday. I confused the barista by ordering a frappucino—he said something about how I was going to freeze my kidneys or something, and when I remarked that I was going to be in the office, he said he was joking with everyone who ordered anything cold. (Local […]
- Christmas Gets Earlier Every Year
I dropped into Sav-on briefly today. Among other things I wanted to top off the supply of Halloween candy for Monday. Imagine my surprise to find that Halloween was crammed into half an aisle, and there were two aisles of Christmas already. (You may notice that the sign above this one doesn’t say “Seasonal” or […]