Bah Humbug!

[evadne_noel]

I hate the Christmas Season.

Note that I do not hate Christmas. Christmas is great. Peace, love, joy, family, giving and getting presents, not to mention a certain religious birthday party.

It's the Christmas Season that makes me want to scream and strangle people. Why? Two words: Christmas Music.

I have never worked retail, so I suppose I can never fully comprehend the horror that is Christmas Music, but I still despise it. And for some reason, as soon as Thanksgiving is over (and I hope the Americans reading this had a good Thanksgiving), at least two of my pre-set radio stations feel the need to play nothing but Christmas Music 24 hours a day until Dec. 25th.

I have heard "Little Drummer Boy" six times already. I want to destroy things.

I have another reason for disliking Christmas Music as well. Take a look at my username. One of those words is part of my actual name. Now, guess why I hate the Christmas Season.

On a side note, here is your one chance to make fun of my name. If you mock my name in any other post between now and Christmas, I will yell viciously at you in giant CAPS OF RAGE.

Seriously, I hate the Christmas Season.

Comments

[roguebelle.livejournal.com]

Whoo! Permission to mock! ::whistles a few bars of "The First Noel" 'cause she can::

;)

Alright, I'm done now.

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

But does allowed and regulated mocking feel as good as free-lance mocking?

And thank you for stopping.

just a compliment for this person....

[(Anonymous)]

I just wanted to tell you that i absolutely (if i could underline things, i would underline the word prior to the parentheses 3 times) LOVE your avatar/icon/thing!!!! Princess Leia has always been my favorite Star Wars chick and i'm glad you're representin'.

Cheers,
~ Victoria

We wish you a merry...nah, too easy ;)

[mysterymeg.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Christmas season drives me nuts as well. Christmas music? Ugh, forget it. My dad insists on blasting it as high as the stereo will allow...fortunately, this year my niece is celebrating her first Christmas, and he can't do that when she's around. Yay!

Noel? That's a pretty name. Be glad you aren't named 'Christmas' (a la Christmas Jones from that crap James Bond movie with Denise Richards.) Or Wenceslas...hey, just trying to help! =D Suddenly I feel lucky to have an ordinary name like Megan.

Personally, I hate stores around Christmastime even more than I hate Christmas music. The crowds, the screaming children...now THAT puts me in a homicidal mood. Better to stay home and order all my stuff from Amazon.com or Ebay.

--Meg

Re: We wish you a merry...nah, too easy ;)

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad you think my name is pretty. It's a family name, so there was no escaping for me. I would feel sorry for Christmas Jones, if it weren't for the fact that I think Denise Richards was one of the worst Bond Girls ever (yes, I'm sure you can stand right next to a nuclear reactor with no protection if it's weapons grade uranium. Uh-huh.).

Amazon.com is a saving grace in the holiday season. But I'll still probably end up at the mall at least once.

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

I've heard that "siiiimply haaavin' a wonderful ChristmasTIME" song about twelve times already. I hate it. HATE IT.

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one is way over-played too. Gaaaaaah! I don't even want to think about what the next month will bring.

pardon my French

[tanaraniel.livejournal.com]

Well, in spite (or maybe to spite) the crazy ShoppingChristmas Season - Joyeux Noel! in advance. I hope you have a good one. And it is really a nice name, by the way.

Re: pardon my French

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm sure I'll have a good Christmas because all my shopping is either done already, or going to be done on-line.

I have to tell you though. It's only a pretty name if someone else has it. It's also cute on little children.

Also, people nickname you Nelly, which is disturbing and wrong.

[proudlijaholic.livejournal.com]

Dude, here it started playing the Christmas music on the radio at the beginning of November. I was looking at the radio going WTF? It's NOVEMBER. If they started playing it a week or two before christmas, I could deal with it, but no, they insist upon playing it before freaking thanksgiving. WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?

Just out of curiosity, where DID you get your name? The Edvadne part, anyway.

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

Why do they start the Christmas music earlier and earlier every year? To annoy me? You can only have so much Christmas music before your brain overloads and you start humming "Do They Know It's Christmas Time at All" in your sleep.

Evadne is a family name from the little known Greek branch of my family. Great-great grandmother I do believe. You would never guess I had Greek in me if you saw me though. I'm as white as white can be. I chose it because I always thought it was a pretty name, but not something I would name a child (I know what it's like to have a weird name in elementary school). So I used it on-line.

[piyo-halliwell.livejournal.com]

I work in retail over at Disneyland in the hotels and let me tell you, we already had our Christmas merchandise out in mid October. Everywhere I turned I could find Mickey Mouse dressed as Santa Claus. At first I thought it was kinda cute and then I realized that we hadn't even had Halloween.

Chrismas music began at least mid last week and just recently we have the "Dicken's Carolers" walking up and down the lobby singing all sorts of songs for the guests. At least they sing different songs in each set or else I would go nuts. I mean, I like Christmas music to a certain extent and then it is just too much for me.

Ugh.

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

No offense to Disney, but a Disney Christmas must be the most overly commercialized thing EVER.

I hope the carolers don't drive you absolutely batty. Request little known songs if it gets to be too much, and revel in their confusion.

I know what to do!

[paderau.livejournal.com]

I sympathize. I had people at work who liked to go around singing carols. After a while I grew so annoyed that I decided to just join in. I started to sing my favorite line from We Three Kings.

Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume
Breathes a life of gathering gloom;
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying,
Sealed in the stone cold tomb.

For some reason everyone stopped smiling.....

Of course, I went Christmas Caroling on Halloween just to freak people out, so I really can't talk about being irritating. Anyway, good luck. I stopped listening to the radio. Best decision I made all year.

Re: I know what to do!

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine why that verse made people stop smiling. Sounds down right jolly to me.

Stop listening to the radio? Why, your logic holds no place here!

i feel your pain!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, i dislike the Christmas season also for the Christmas music. Actually, i can tolerate Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas music for awhile....its those songs that actually have people singing to them that get to me. Work is even more excrutiating at the moment (i work at a pizza cafe) because my Palestinian manager, who doesn't even celebrate Christmas much less even know what its really about, insists on blaring the most annoying Christmas music on the planet with the reason of, and i quote, "It will attract more white people to the restaurant because they all celebrate this holiday". *sigh*

And i love your name, its much more interesting than mine.

Cheers,
~ Victoria

Re: i feel your pain!

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

You should explain that Christmas music only attracts people in 50s movies. These days, it's more likely to drive people away.

I'm Christmas music is making your working life more difficult. Do they play "modern" Christmas music? To my ears, those modern carols are worse than the old standards sung by people like Johnny Mathias and such. Blah, stop making up stupid Christmas songs, you new-fangled pop idols!

Hey, I'll totally trade names with you. If it's legal.

[finbean5.livejournal.com]

Christmas music on my radio stations started the Monday of Thanksgiving. The apocalypse cannot be far.

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

Is that an official sign of the apocalypse? War in Jerusalem, the second coming and early Christmas music?

Yeah, I'd buy that.

[capri-chan.livejournal.com]

ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

That is all I will say. I wouldn't have said that, but I like bad jokes, and that's one of my favorites.

There's a webcomic artist/author/whatever that I like. I was reading her blog archives, and I think you might appreicate her November 13, 2003 (http://www.sgvy.com/blog/2003_11_01_archive.html) entry. I also like her December 20, 2002 (http://www.sgvy.com/blog/2002_12_01_archive.html) entry.

Speaking of Kittyhawk, check out her web comic (http://www.sgvy.com) as well! It's "Sailor Moon" meets "Ranma 1/2" meets Norse Mythology. With a bit of Parody-ness thrown in. The first Edda is a bit...vulgar, for lack of a better term. But it gets better.

Oh, yes, and I don't blame you for wanting to destroy things. I have never liked "Little Drummer Boy."

[capri-chan.livejournal.com]

Oh, and if it makes you feel any better, I found out that my name is another version of "Dionysous" or however it's spelled. Imagine, I'm the Greek Goddess of Wine! Kinda, anyway.

Christmas music

[jaguarkitty83.livejournal.com]

I'll admit it, I love Christmas music-but I like the new ones that bands like PlusOne, or Nicole C. Mullen have wrote, not the traditional stuff. (Unless it's Carol of the Bells. I love Carol of the Bells.)

But unfortunately, we've been playing traditional Christmas carols at work since October 3rd. I'm so sick of hearing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas". I just want to scream. Whatever happened to Thanksgiving? That poor little holiday just gets ignored now. Let's hear it for the Turkeys!

Re: Christmas music

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

Go, Turkeys! Fight! Win! Take back your holiday! Wherein you get eaten!

I don't really dig new Christmas music because it gets over played on "contemporary" radio stations, which are pretty much my only form of music. But apparently I'm behind on modern Christmas music, because I can't even identify those people/bands you mentioned.

[hikoslover.livejournal.com]

You hate Christmas? I started seeing Christmas commercials before Halloween was even over. Blah.

I HATE the stupid "Chestnuts roasting over an open fire" song. Everytime I hear it I freak out and want to claw the walls. Same goes for the equally stupid "thise is a list of my favorite things" song, which includes "whiskers on kittens". Who the hell thinks about whiskers on kittens?

Bah humbug to the over-commercialization of Christmas!!

Where do you live, Evadne?

[hikoslover.livejournal.com]

Forgot to mention this....the Christmas season is when I start listening to the Brian Setzer Orchestra more often than I usually do. The wicked guitar drowns out the crappy Christmas music playing ad nauseum in the mall hour after hour XD

I <i>did</i> work in retail

[orange852.livejournal.com]

Five and a half endless, freakish years. At least the radio stations play Christmas music with words; the elevator music version of every major Christmas carol is etched into my genetic code by now.

NooooELLLL NooOOOOooooELLLL NOOOoooOOOellllLL NOOOOOell
Born is the kiiiIIIIiiiiiing of IzZZZzzzzraELLLL

Mel Blanc, voice of a platoon of looney toons, may he rest in peace, named his kid Noel Blanc, or White Christmas. Could be worse.

[sigh] My heart is not really in the authorized mockery, no.

Get back at the friggin' Christmas spirit

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you, Noelle, Christmas rules but all the advertising and commercializing of it being rammed down my throat is enough to make me want to kill someone.

If y'all hate that chestnuts roasting on an open fire song, I recommend finding the Bob Rivers version "Chipmunks roasting on an open fire" and listening to it, but you have to listen to his version of the Chipmunks song first or else it doesn't make much sense (the one where Alvin keeps bitching about a hula hoop).

~ Kelli

I hate it too

[v-airniidroog.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about the radio people already starrting with the music stuff. It remindes me of that one movie with Hugh Grant and his dad got rich oss a christmas song that everyone sings. About a Boy. thats it. I really like the song with the duets I think its called Baby its Cold Outside. But yeah I cant stand little drummer boy too.

Re: I hate it too

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

Christmas music on the radio makes me cry. If I wanted to listen to the Jessica Simpson version of "O Holy Night," I would buy her CD.

'tis the season to be...jolly?

[hapycow.livejournal.com]

Well, Christmas music doesn't really affect me at all. I just like the smell of pine, putting lights around my window, making my room all christmas-y, being yelled at constantly..*sighs happily* Christmas may have turned into some strange commerical holiday, but if you just allow yourself to absorb the real meaning of Christmas and drown everything else out, everything will be fine. ^_^

[a bit of optimism brought to you by the one and only hapycow]

Re: 'tis the season to be...jolly?

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

What's a holiday season without being yelled at? Ah, family.

Wow, your optimism is nice, but it sounds like the end of a holiday special. "How Happycow Saved Christmas for the On-line Community."

Ah Well...

[(Anonymous)]

I sympathize completely. My name's is Adora, and there's a kid's TV show- Dora the Explorer. I'm sure you get the jist. And it's on all year! I won't make fun of your name because that would be rude, seeing as this is my first reply. So, I love your Breadboxes! My favorite is The Return of the King and Prisoner of Azkaban. Have you ever heard of jerry the frog?

Re: Ah Well...

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

Wow, how old am I (actually not that old)? My first thought at your name was actually of She-Ra. I'm so pathetic.

Oh, heck! You can make fun of my name any time you want. Most people make fun of it the first time they meet me. Though, they probably think they're clever.

I'm glad you like my Breadboxes. I have heard of Jerry the Frog, though I don't read it. I'm actually not that deep into fandoms, and don't surf as much as I'd like.

[starlight1184.livejournal.com]

Hello. First comment on your journal, have been reading your Breadboxes since you first came out with the Fellowship one, and absolutely LOVE them. They are little strokes of genius and bring laughter and sunshine to my day. :-) Thanks for reposting them here in LJ-land when FanFiction-place stopped being nice.

Anywho... since you hate Christmas so, any chance of that seriously disturbing (and yet strangely wonderful) Rudolph Breadbox making a reappearance? Or some other Christmas themed funnies? Just a passing thought I had. Thanks!

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

Thank you for visiting! I'm really glad you like my parodies. I hope I continue to write good ones.

I would love to re-post the Rudolph BBE for the holidays, but I currently can't find it anywhere. I have a bad feeling it was on the disk that corrupted when I had to have my hard drive wiped over the summer. I'm going to continue to look for it, but I don't have my hopes up. Worst come to worst, I'll make a desparate plea to the people who read this journal in hopes someone downloaded it.

*screams*

[lijz-chick.livejournal.com]

k, sorries that I haven't commented for a while, Iv'e been SO busy!!! But anywayz, OH MY GOSH the other day my mom and I went Christmas shopping, and when we were driving in the car, she turned on the radio. In just a half an hour's time we heard ten different versions of Silent Night, NOT KIDDING!! I could almost feel my ears start to bleed. Every station we turned to played a remixed version of it. So finally I turned flipped to a rock station and blared up the sound.

Our stations have been playing Christmas music since right after Halloween!!! What, do they think if they play it earlier each year, it's going to come faster?!?! *deep breaths* I have now sworn off of it for this year, and everytime my mom plays it on our cd player I pull on my head phones and blare any non-Christmas-song I can find. I even listened to every single one of my many LOTR and HP sound tracks. I can't promise what will happen to any carolers (sp?) who may come to my house this year. *branishes a wand*

Whoa mabye I wrote a little too much..*blush*

Re: *screams*

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

If I worked for a radio station that played Christmas music since Halloween, I think I would be forced to kill myself. That's so not cool.

I hope you are not forced to blow up any carolers. That would look bad on your record.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, I never really thought of that before, but it WOULD be annoying to have your name blaring out of speakers. Though Josh Groban could sing that a fair bit . . hmm . . . (He sang "O Holy Night," so this is not completely random.)

My name wouldn't really fit in a song, so I think I'm safe. At least, I really hope I am.

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

My friend is a rabid Grobanite, so I think she would rather have her name sang by him. But, hey, if you have to choose, it's not bad.

Hah! No matter how safe you think you are, someone, somewhere will find a way to stick your name in a very stupid song!