I do. I can't get enough of them. In fact, I don't even care that they seem to come out earlier every year. Put up the tinsel and multi-colored lights in July if you want. I could listen to Christmas music all year round. (Yes, even "Do They Know It's Christmas After All?") Christmas is like the George Clooney of holidays. It could basically murder someone and we'd still all love it more than the other holidays. (Sorry, Arbor Day.)
I can't be the only guy who's into Christmas. I know a lot of dads love putting up decorations and having the best, most elaborately decorated home on the block. And walking around and seeing the Christmas lights and decorations with your sweetheart can make for a super romantic date. There's the nostalgia factor with Christmas, but there's also something strangely romantic about the season. Maybe it's the lights and the cold weather and mistletoe. Or maybe it's all the booze and rum cake at holiday parties. Whatever it is, the holiday season seems to be a good time for hooking up. I find the whole holiday season fun and romantic actually. Hannukkah, Kwanzaa, winter solstice. What, you don't hoist a tall glass of mead on the solstice?
I'm also really into those elaborate miniature Christmas towns that you always see at Hallmark stores or Yankee Candle. Trains, snowmen, little town criers. I could look at those things for hours. Plus, I love holiday specials like The Grinch (the animated version, not the Jim Carrey movie) and Charlie Brown's Christmas. And you've got great heartwarming, date-friendly Christmas movies like It's a Wonderful Life, Scrooged and Elf.
Decorating can be fun and romantic. Put on some fun Christmas music (I recommend the Jackson 5 Christmas album), fix some hot cocoa or apple cider, maybe bake some cookies, and decorate your place together. Trim the tree (it can be a little one, just like Charlie Brown's), arrange miniature Santas and snowmen, hang wreathes and mistletoe. Then have hot, sweaty sex on top of some holiday wrapping paper.
What about you guys? What holiday traditions do you have? What do you like to do with your guy during the holidays?
I can't be the only guy who's into Christmas. I know a lot of dads love putting up decorations and having the best, most elaborately decorated home on the block. And walking around and seeing the Christmas lights and decorations with your sweetheart can make for a super romantic date. There's the nostalgia factor with Christmas, but there's also something strangely romantic about the season. Maybe it's the lights and the cold weather and mistletoe. Or maybe it's all the booze and rum cake at holiday parties. Whatever it is, the holiday season seems to be a good time for hooking up. I find the whole holiday season fun and romantic actually. Hannukkah, Kwanzaa, winter solstice. What, you don't hoist a tall glass of mead on the solstice?
I'm also really into those elaborate miniature Christmas towns that you always see at Hallmark stores or Yankee Candle. Trains, snowmen, little town criers. I could look at those things for hours. Plus, I love holiday specials like The Grinch (the animated version, not the Jim Carrey movie) and Charlie Brown's Christmas. And you've got great heartwarming, date-friendly Christmas movies like It's a Wonderful Life, Scrooged and Elf.
Decorating can be fun and romantic. Put on some fun Christmas music (I recommend the Jackson 5 Christmas album), fix some hot cocoa or apple cider, maybe bake some cookies, and decorate your place together. Trim the tree (it can be a little one, just like Charlie Brown's), arrange miniature Santas and snowmen, hang wreathes and mistletoe. Then have hot, sweaty sex on top of some holiday wrapping paper.
What about you guys? What holiday traditions do you have? What do you like to do with your guy during the holidays?
Me and my boyfriend love to go ice skating in Chicago. I think it is so romantic slipping and having someone catch you (most of the time).
Yes! Ice skating this time of year is pretty freakin' magical. (Oh my god I am such a Christmas nerd.) And don't forget making snowmen and snowball fights.
For whatever reason, I'm not into decorating for any kind of holiday. I don't know why. My mother makes the house look like Christmas exploded and I just never got into it.
One year, we had an empty nativity scene with several piles of plastecine. Everybody who came to the house had to make a figure to add to it, and it could be whatever they wanted. Hilarity ensued.
In the end, we were witness to the birth of Cthulhu (baby squidface was pretty cute, actually), midwifed by Dr Zoidberg. Offering gifts were three Wiseguys and a Don, and if memory serves me correctly, Gumby. There was other assorted madness, but they're the ones I remember.
Baby Cthulu and Zoidberg? That's awesome.
Baby Cthulhu sounds disturbingly adorable!
Yeah, it was my favourite one. I thought it was really inventive!
I enjoy looking at lit-up houses. It was a tradition with my dad, and because of living in New England, we had to stop doing it after living in California for so long. People still haven't decorated for Christmas here quite yet, so I remain hopeful.
hahaha "hot, sweaty sex on top of some holiday wrapping paper." That will definitely become a new holiday tradition.
I've been listening to Christmas music for weeks now. Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra are my favorites.
snow in general is fantastic, but somehow the snow around Christmas is softer, prettier and, forgive my strange olfactory senses, smells better. It makes the world feel cleaner and is not a bad cushion if you're movement-challenged like me. There is also something calming and lovely about sitting in a dark room with a lit tree (real, not plastic... I know, save the pines, but really... stored-in-the-attic-for-11-months is not the same as pine needles).
I know what you mean. Not heavy and freezing like later in the winter, or slushy and gross by the end. Dec snow is the best snow.
All I care is that they don't go up before Thanksgiving. Seriously. Cut that shit out.
I second that.
Nick, you rock the free world.
aw cute. i listen to Christmas music beginning in April, so i appreciated this post. on the flip-side, though, the holidays are a little bittersweet for singletons, though. watching couples walking hand-in-hand looking @ decorations & buying trees & ice skating (ug) can be annoying (but only b/c we're slightly jealous, i suppose).
It barely seems like the Christmas season here right now. It's been beautiful out and too warm for snow.
So I've been trying to make up for it by listening to Christmas music non-stop/singing it wherever I go. Lighting cinnamon smelling candles. We just bought a poinsettia (which we named Flo) for our apartment, put up some lights, and hung some random Christmas balls everywhere (we're not allowed to have a tree), and I haven't turned off our fake fireplace in a week.
Oh, and I bought one of these: Yule Goat. So it looks like the Blair Witch project up in here too.
Also, @TheMetalHead, I agree. No Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving! But the day after Thanksgiving is when I start breaking out the Christmas spirit, and annoying everyone to death with good cheer. Oh, and did I mention I'm talking about Canadian Thanksgiving (that happens to be the 2nd Monday of October)?
:D
Thanksgiving is better though.
I would also like to add that the Chris Isaak Christmas album is the best and sexiest album EVER.
I hum xmas tunes all year around. :)
When I was in High School I put up those lights that randomly blink in different patterns in my room for almost 2 years. Man, I miss those. Time to buy a new set.
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