When is it too much?

While we're on the subject of Ms. Scrooge allow me to tell you this tidbit about myself. 
Christmas music wherever you go all the time is nothing but annoying to me. Even if you like Christmas music, it's too much. Goes on too damn long.  I feel like it is Chinese Water Torture.

Today I went to the doctors - it was playing in the office.
Then I went to Walgreens and it was playing there.
Then I stopped at the grocery store to fetch juice, it was playing there too.
Then I came home - whew - never going to hear that stuff at home.
But Rick is home today (long story) and he had on TV when I returned.
Yep, you guessed it, Christmas music.
I can't get away from it.

Growing up Christian you'd think I'd be used to this.
I feel for the poor souls who are not Christian and have to put up with this holiday music on a loop of nausea. No skin in the game and still have to listen to this all the damn time? It's enough to make you postal. But I know there are those very nice people out there who LOVE this. 
I want to slap them, but they are nice people. They are probably the same nice people who put glitter in your card. And we all love getting a card with glitter in it, don't we? 

When I loved Christmas I didn't like this music. So now add that I am the ultimate scrooge and I am not a fan. 
Oh, sure when we would decorate the tree and we'd have our spiked homemade egg nog Rick and I would play Christmas music on. But do I really need to hear this from Thanksgiving to New Years? Even music I like I would end up hating if I had to hear it on a loop like this. 

I worked a holiday season at the mall once.  
The operative word here, ONCE. 
Holiday mall workers deserve combat pay if you ask me. And you didn't. 
Oh my goodness the music was non stop. It drove us all crazy. Like the mean shoppers weren't bad enough but do I have to hear jingle bells for the 24th time today and not hurt anyone? Really you expect that from me? I'm not that strong. 

As teens and young adults my cousins and I would load up our sleds with boxes of booze and we'd carol through the neighborhood. 
My ex-husband was shocked at his first Xmas caroling adventure after marrying me.
He asked, "All your cousins do this? And they LIKE to do this?"
I explain to the best of my ability, "Hey, it's another reason to drink, walk and be together, it's fun"  We meet at Uncle Angelo's, we will pull our wagon and walk around the neighborhood singing and believe it or not it's a riot. We laugh a lot as we tend to do. The people love it and get so excited when they open their door, or pretend to. We can't sing a lick but it sounds okay when we are all together. We end up at Uncle Ange's for food and warming up at the end of the evening."  I do remember him shaking his head and I know he was thinking we were certifiable.

We were 23 and off we went caroling. He admitted it was a ball, the laughter, the falling down, (was it icy or was that too much hot toddy?)  even the singing. Because in my hometown it is always snowing so there was always snow and ice making it even more of an adventure.
So I didn't always dislike Christmas music. But again it didn't start at Thanksgiving. It was 2 maybe 3 weeks at best. That is enough!

Then comes December 31st - well I like that date in December.
That day in 1993 in Montego Bay Jamaica under a flower field gazebo overlooking the vast blue ocean I wed Mr. Right. 
So you see, December isn't all bad. 😍

Here is a favorite non-traditional Christmas song.