christmas?!!!!

The Today Show is doing a Christmas segment. There are Christmas trees on the television and they're playing Christmas songs.

It doesn't even have the slightly redemptive quality of being a heart-warming story. It purely exemplifies the American spirit of over-indulgence and over-consumption. They're talking to the head of the Neiman-Marcus catalog about this year's ridiculous gifts, such as a doghouse with Italian architecture.

I love Christmas (Eve). It's my favorite time of year and I'm eagerly anticipating this year's Christmas since it will be my sons' First Christmas but it's still two weeks until Halloween!!!