November. It’s the time of year when the leaves mimic the color of fire as they dance to earth on gentle breezes…another holiday season peeks around the corner promising good times with family and friends…and the temperature, in anticipation, has dropped to a brisk 80 degrees.
Wait..what?
We’re always surprised when it gets “unseasonably” warm in November and December. Oddly enough, it happens just about every year. And every year we call it “unseasonably” warm. I remember this happening when I was a little kid too…which begs the question: Unseasonably?
By definition, isn’t it seasonably warm if it happens just about every season? Or have we just run out of things to talk about?
In the same vein, every year I will hear this: “It sure doesn’t feel like Christmas.”
This begs another question: When did it feel like Christmas? When was the last time you heard someone say, “Wow, it sure feels like Christmas!” Never. Because if it did feel like Christmas they would be too busy enjoying the moment to step back and analyze it. If they did analyze it, it would probably kill the moment and you would hear “Hm, it felt like Christmas for a second there.” And anyone who says that needs to learn to stop cutting open the ball and looking for the bounce.
I, of course, am speaking to myself.
I suppose when we say “It doesn’t feel like (insert holiday)” we must be comparing it to the holidays of our childhood. Before we “grew up” and forgot how to enjoy the moment with no expectations as to how it would “feel.”
Not this year! This year I’m plunging headlong into this sweltering holiday season with no expectations whatsoever. Bring on the turkey! Bring on the togetherness! Bring on the A/C, the shorts, and the occasional yuletide watermelon! There will be plenty of time for snowmen and hot chocolate in April when you’ll hear everyone say:
“Wow, sure doesn’t feel like Spring.”
As soon as it gets cold, I’m calling to tell you it feels like Christmas.
Kari
November 1st, 2004
It feels like Christmas if you live where it snows. Not every year, though.
Geof F. Morris
November 1st, 2004
Kari: bah. humbug.
Geof: but the weather has always been this way here. So that reason really doesn’t cut it.
brian
November 1st, 2004
:rofl:
_steve
November 1st, 2004
Every December around here feels like Christmas!
Roger (<–feels like beef…)
Roger
November 1st, 2004
fortunately christmas comes in december.
brian
November 1st, 2004
i will be careful to not say “unseasonably” around you.
mike
November 2nd, 2004
hey brian. the temperature was sure above the average we see in this area during this time of year based on data collected for the past hundred years.
mike
November 2nd, 2004
well, look who went to college.
brian
November 2nd, 2004
learn to stop cutting open the ball and looking for the bounce.
I love that… mind if I use it on a website or something?
Eric
November 2nd, 2004
sure…since I stole it from somewhere else…feel free. mwhahahaha
(I’m pretty sure tolkien said it.)
brian
November 2nd, 2004
Fortunate, indeed.
Roger
November 2nd, 2004