Decemberry Christmassy Happy

Hurrah! December! Yay!

If I push thoughts of my tax return to the back of my head, December is pretty exciting. It's Christmas day in 25 days! It's Christmas Eve in 24 days! It's Christmas Eve Eve in... you get the point. Tomorrow I'm going to go to the corner shop in the morning and buy the shittest advent calendar I can find because the shit ones are somehow better than good ones. Here are some things that make me very happy this time of year.

The Toys R Us advert.



I get so excited by Toys R Us that I used to get annoyed at my parents if they went the short way home from my Nans and we didn't drive past it. Just looking at it made me excited like a kitten. ALL THE TOYS IN THE WORLD! Millions says Jeffrey! The advert still does the same thing now. I don't want DVDs for Christmas! I don't want books! I want Barbie and plastic food! My Little Pony! I still get excited when I drive past ANY Toys R Us.

Santa Claus: The Movie



This was always on when we arrived at my Grandparents on Christmas eve. We'd watch it all the way through and then leave with lots of presents. I love this film. Dudley Moore is brilliant in it. Really. It's what Christmas should really be about. If ITV shift this to New Year's Eve again, I'll be writing strongly worded letters.

Slade.



This isn't my favourite Christmas song. My favourite Christmassy song is Let it Snow, but this one sums up Christmas for me. It reminds me of my Dad dancing (and only Dads can really dance to this song). It reminds me of being a kid. The Christmas discos my Dad's old office would have for all the kids. They were ace. We'd get a present and dance and it was fun.

The Argos Catalogue.



Argos is shit, isn't it? But when you were a kid, my goodness it was the best thing ever. Christmas lists all over the country were scribbled after looking through that book. Page numbers, codes, colours, all logged down. I'd spend HOURS making Christmas lists. HOURS.


Driving past houses with really really good Christmas lights.


When I was young, Christmas lights were everywhere (wait, did that cause this whole climate change thingy? Oh well). Now they're hardly nowhere and this makes me a bit sad. My folks would always drive past the houses with the best lights. Coming from a small town awesome Christmas lights spread like wildfire (not literally, although that probably wouldn't help climate change that much). My uncle would hear about awesome lights and tell my Gran, my Gran would tell my Grandad and he'd tell my dad, and then we'd drive all the way across town just to see them. That was fun.

For one reason or another, I haven't enjoyed Christmas much over the last few years. But this year will be different, I'm going so fucking Christmassy on your asses this year.

Merry Christmas everyone!


Flickr image of awesome Christmas lights from francisco_osorio's photostream.