Christmas 1989. I was a senior in high school and Hollywood released this classic. Can you believe it's been twenty years?
I place this third on my all-time favorite Christmas movie list. First is Holiday Inn, with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, and second is White Christmas, with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye ("...because we loooove him, we loooove him...").
Okay, I'll be honest. I really, really wanted to post the clip of Cousin Eddie emptying his RV's turlet into the sewer because it's the funniest line ever in a Christmas movie. But I chose not to because of the language. Funny, still.
Actually, this movie is the king of one-liners so I could go on and on and on. But there are still 24 more days til Christmas so I have lots of time.
Anyway, there's no real point here except that today is December 1, so that means that it is o-fficially the Christmas season. And that makes me giddy like a schoolgirl. I love this time of year.
I'm kickin' it up a notch this year because I'm just really excited about Christmas. I've already got my tree up, it's the one that is brighter than most of the stars in the sky. Not kidding, my tree's lights are intense. Six foot tree, 600 white lights. And I finally got to put lights on the outside of my house. That's something I've always wanted to do but never quite had the house to do it. My neighbor's wife drove by the other day while I was on the roof and yelled, "Looking good, Griswold!" I was thrilled.
There's no special reason that I can think of, I'm just looking forward to Christmas. Hope you are, too. So get in the spirit. Watch your favorite movies, listen to all the music and just enjoy the season. It only comes once a year.
"You wanna hurry it up, Clark? I'm freezing my baguettes off."
