My Christmas-music-before-Thanksgiving-confession
This is coming from a very anti-Christmas-music-before-Thanksgiving person.
In the eyes of all anti-Christmas-music-before-Thanksgiving people, I have sinned.
It was Nov. 3. I was alone in my apartment studying snugged up in a fleece blanket sipping hot chocolate. It was quiet, so I reached for my phone to put on a little study music.
Two hours later, I was stunned to find myself singing “Jingle Bell Rock” horribly off-key.
How this happened, I’m not quite sure. The events leading up to the Christmas station playing on my Pandora app are a little blurry.
But from what I can piece together, these factors played a significant role in my music selection:
1. Baby, it was cold outside.
2. It was a silent night.
3. My homework was due on a midnight clear.
Oh the subtlety of Christmas carols! I stood little to no chance against their wiley ways.
Once infected with this “holiday cheer,” I found it spread quickly. By the end of the week, I was watching “Christmas with the Kranks,” shopping online for gifts and looking up Christmas cookie recipes on Pinterest. I was Christmas-music-before-Thanksgiving terminal.
It was time to go cold turkey. I shifted my focus back to one of the most over-looked holidays of all time, Thanksgiving.
Cast in the shadow of Christmas, this holiday is not always easy to focus on. But bit-by-bit I was able to crawl out of my Christmas-music-before-Thanksgiving trance into an attitude of thanksgiving.
Every day is a struggle. I sometimes relapse. “Santa Baby,” “Here Comes Santa Claus” and “I’ll be Home for Christmas” are just too popular on radio stations. But I pick myself up. I think of cranberry sauce. I think of candied yams. I think of mashed potatoes. I think of turkey.
For those of you struggling with Christmas music before Thanksgiving, stay strong. There will be all of December to indulge in holiday music. For now, enjoy the other holiday, the one about thanks.
— Katie Lambert is a print journalism senior graduating in December. She loves running outside, reading and occasionally eating her weight in Swedish Fish. You can email her at katie.l.lambert26@gmail.com or message her on Twitter @klamb92.