67 days, 4 hours, and 10 minutes

Every year right around the end of November, I shapeshift and become the happiest little Christmas Elf  you've ever laid eyes on... and while taking part in my daily stalking web browsing rituals, I found out that Michael Buble's Christmas Album is dropping in -count 'em- ONE week AND thanks to the always reliable and dependable Perez Hilton, you can sample 6 of the tracks here.

SNOW.M.G.  I am stupidly excited about this.  I don't want to talk about the fact that the album is being released in the month of October- I prefer to think of it as a celebration of Christmas's arrival in just 67 days, (and now) 3 hours, and 58 minutes!  That's not so far away!

No- I haven't been hitting the mistletoe pipe or sipping on the eggnog, Christmas just makes me really really really deliriously happy.  I do my best to hold out until Thanksgiving Day to watch my first Christmas movie... but let's be honest- the jams are already on your local soft rock station and Elf has already played at least once a week on TBS by this point and I can't even deny the fact that I have shamelessly taken part in both of these guilty pleasures by this point.

I literally get goosebumps when I think of my Christmas movie line up.  Here are the top 10 (since I know you're curious):

10. The Santa Clause

9. The Polar Express

8. The Family Stone

7. Love Actually

6. Elf

5. Holiday Inn

4. It's a Wonderful Life

3. White Christmas

2. Charlie Brown Christmas

1. Christmas In Connecticut

Ok, now I'm just plain giddy.  Poor T doesn't know what he's gotten himself into.  I usually veg out on the couch with my Mom and/or assorted room mates from over the years... and watch all of these at least once between Thanksgiving and Christmas. This year Tory's going to have to carry some of the load, being that he is my husband and current (permanent) room mate.  I'm going to have to break this news to him gently being that almost half of these movies are black and white and LOW-DEF for sure.  The little geek inside him is going to die a little as I giggle with joy-omg- I'm going to have to pull out the ol' dual DVD/VHS player for some of these movies, even BETTER!

I'd better stop this before it get's out of hand, afterall it is only the 3rd week of October.  I've got Halloween, T's bday, Veteran's Day, and Thanksgiving to get through before I can really let loose.  Until then I will be fantasizing about cinnamon flavored candles, tights and sweater dresses, Bing Crosby, and the first snow flakes.

I will leave you with 2 pictures: our beautiful first Christmas tree:

And, just so Halloween doesn't get jealous... my first jack-o-lantern, carved over the weekend with wine, roasted pumpkin seeds, and new friends:

mine is the silly one on the bottom left

update: now there are just 67 days, 3 hours, and 18 minutes left!  Yes, this post took me forever to post.