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Resisting the Holiday Spirit

November 8, 2012 by Julie 119 Comments

Now that Halloween has come and gone, it seems like the holiday spirit is in the air. Yes, it’s only November 8, but November = Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving = Holiday season.

Don’t try to fight it!

I drove through downtown Ocala yesterday on my way to an afternoon meeting and saw Christmas displays set up in the windows of two different shops. I’m sure some people drove by the windows and scoffed at the fact that the decorations are out so early in the season just like one of my sorority sisters (we’ll call her “Scrooge Lady”) did in college.

My best friend and I and would hang holiday decorations outside of Scrooge Lady’s room while she was away at class.

christmas julie

It became a mini holiday war as Scrooge Lady got into the game and tacked notes to the bulletin board outside of our room that said things like “bah humbug.” This naturally encouraged us to hang up icicle lights and jingle bells around her door, only to find them stacked in a pile outside of our door a few hours later with another bah humbug-ish message.

Despite our best efforts, Scrooge Lady never fully immersed herself in the Christmas spirit, but she did say our holiday war was awfully fun and we laughed a lot, so that’s something, right? Just spreadin’ a little Christmas cheer!

(Did any of you guys ever have “dorm wars” with friends in college or sleep away camp? Can we bring them back in the real world? So fun!)

Even though I am starting to feel the holiday spirit grow around me, Ryan and I don’t decorate for Christmas until after Thanksgiving and I try my best to keep my Christmas CDs packed away until then as well.

This does not mean that I am above using the Pandora shuffle button to jump around my Pandora stations.

pandora shuffle

Should Pandora decide to randomly play a little “Carol of the Bells” by Trans Siberian Orchestra from my Rockin’ Holidays station, I’m not going to stop it. I consider that a little gift from Father Christmas.

Breakfast

Breakfast this morning started with a holiday-ish cup of coffee.

peppermint coffee

Peppermint mocha coffee + Unsweetened vanilla almond milk

I also made a batch of honey whole wheat pancakes.

Honey Whole Wheat Pancakes

I loosely followed my recipe for honey whole wheat pumpkin pancakes, but changed some of the measurements because we didn’t have any pumpkin on hand.

Healthy Whole Wheat Pancakes

Yum!

Question of the Morning

  • When do you start to get into the holiday spirit?
  • Did you ever have a “dorm war” in college or at a sleep away camp where you’d go back and forth decorating or pranking a friend’s room while they were away?

Whenever I think about pranking someone while they’re away from their room, I cannot help but think of The Parent Trap. “Let’s Get Together, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!”

If you’ve never seen the original version of The Parent Trap with Hayley Mills – aka Miss Bliss from the junior high years of Saved by the Bell – I highly recommend it!

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My name is Julie and I am a full-time blogger, new mama, fitness enthusiast (certified personal trainer and group exercise instructor) and food fanatic (mostly healthy... but also not-so-healthy) living in North Carolina with my husband, dog and baby boy. Thank you for visiting Peanut Butter Fingers! I hope you enjoy little glimpses into my life and have fun trying the sweaty workouts I frequently share and making some of my favorite recipes along the way!

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Comments

  1. Laura @ Laura Lite says

    November 9, 2012 at 6:23 pm

    Ever since I moved to the UK I get into Christmas in about September! I’ve already bought about 10 ornaments and 2 rolls of wrapping paper, almost all of my husband’s Christmas gifts… It’s all I can think about! 🙂

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  2. Andrea @ Barbells and Buttercream says

    November 10, 2012 at 8:21 am

    I have always thought the holidays began the end of October, because that’s when my birthday is. Once my birthday came, it was immediately followed by Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Then my second child was born even earlier in October and the holiday season got moved up! LOL!

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  3. Samantha says

    November 10, 2012 at 1:12 pm

    I’ve never gone away to college ,but when my husband and I moved out we stayed pretty close to home. My sister and brother in-law also stuck close and moved in a few blocks from us. Well my sister started a lawn fight and forked our lawn so ever since we have been slightly trashing each others lawns!! It’s always funny to see what we will come up with next

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  4. Chelsea says

    November 11, 2012 at 11:39 pm

    In my sorority (Kappa Delta – WooHoo!!), we had tons of prank wars! We slept in “cold airs”, one big room full of only beds with the windows open all year round – in IOWA!! Some of us would rig up other girls beds – sliced cheese under the covers, things hanging from the ceiling, a snow sled under the sheets – and then we would lay quietly and wait for someone to discover her surprise!

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