With Halloween finished, along with the scares, costumes, and pumpkin-spiced everything, it's now time for another year of everyone getting ready for Christmas, even though it's more than a month away. The great holiday of Thanksgiving has been pushed aside in favor of more decorated pine trees, more sales at Wal-Mart, and the same Mariah Carey song playing on every. Single. Radio. Station. Twenty. Four. Seven.

Now, I'm not the first person to complain about this problem, but I do feel like the only one who is completely and utterly sick of this continuing to occur each and every year. It's come to the point where I'm flat-out annoyed and irritated by Christmas before December even rolls around, especially when a perfectly fine holiday is being sidelined in favor of more jingle bells and reindeers.

I get that it's an important holiday. I get that it gives people happiness. I get that the atmosphere of Christmas is irrresistable. I'm even one of those people that gets giddy each time Christmas comes around. However, I get giddy only a week or two before the big day. I don't want to hear "Sleigh Ride" when it's still early in November. I don't want to see Christmas trees available at the local farm when I haven't enjoyed my turkey and mashed potatoes yet. And I definitely, most certainly don't want Christmas decorations for sale before it's even Halloween (Seriously though, how can someone approve of that idea?).

Regardless, I guess what irks me is that a holiday that's all about family, togetherness, and being thankful for what you have is now completely ignored. It's a holiday that people should be excited for, and it's something that has a lot of great parts about it to look forward to. The annual parade, the feast, the football game, the family reconnection; it's all perfect! But I guess people are willing to put up with hearing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" in every shopping center for two whole months.