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Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 10:15PM The "Perth Christmas Tree Lights Switch On," was technically before the official Redpath Holiday Season Kickoff begins, and therefore not acceptable to attend, but we went anyway. Brenna is nothing if not freewheeling!
The day was a little cold, the evening a little rainy, and the whole event a lot of fun. There was entertainment up and down High Street, including Sideshow Stevie and
Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 2:47AM In our previous/normal lives in Los Angeles, the holiday season starts today for our family. We put on the Christmas music, put up the decorations, and I start pestering Bob to go out and get a tree, which takes a week or two. [Bob's note: If you wanted the tree up on Thanksgiving you should have started pestering me two weeks before Thanksgiving.] Nothing Holiday-ish happens before today. No decorations, no music, no gingerbread... We joke about how all official merriment is forbidden until The Day -- that being the day after Thanksgiving. We stop each other from absentmindedly humming Jingle Bells, and blissfully glide past Christmas isles at the store; noses in the air. Christmas doesn't start until
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WHY!! Why do they do this! Why so SOON! It's the first day of November! I'm not emotionally ready to start the holidays. I can't be expected to be festive for two entire months. It's just too much pressure!
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