happy christmaween?

i love this time of year. i love halloween, i love love thanksgiving, and i love love love christmas. i truly enjoy all the festivities the business and the general good cheer that comes with this time of year. (i'm actually a little giggly just thinking about all the upcoming fun)
HOWEVER, what is crap is with all this holiday hodge podge. i love Hobby Lobby (i really do) and i love Target (way too much) but you two along with other major retailers can't seem to keep your calendars straight. why is it that when i go to look for a new costume for Ellie May (this year she will be a bunch of grapes) anyway, why is it that when i come costume shopping i have to power past partridge in a pear dishes and tree stands right in the fake eyeball aisle. i don't know why we are rushing through all this excitement.
another problem is created, and that is the demand. everyone is so afraid in july that when they go to buy a brand new witches cauldron in october there will be none in the greater knoxville area cause they were sold out and replaced with wooden signs sporting the phrase "jingle bell rock?!" i just don't understand. i don't want to buy googly eyes and newt tounges in the summer...i want them now...in october...in order to make my perfectly adorable juice potion in pottery barn apothecary jars. for real, who plans THAT far in advance.
and third, it really produces a waistline crisis. i have been dodging candy corn and mini snickers bars for so long that i feel like i live in a tasty war zone. and it's never ending, pumpkin spice latte, pumpkin bread, pumpkin rolls, and cookies are around supporting turkey day. as if that is not enough to put you into a sugar induced coma; the christmas oreos are already starting to make their way to the shelves and i swear i heard the coca-cola santa packs are coming. this is way too much. i do not have that much willpower. who does?! AND if you can name a person who does or if you do then just know, i think your a weirdo.
so that said, i am tuning my pandora internet radio to "halloween party" for the rest of the weekend. Thriller? why yes please! so HAPPY HALLOWEEN to you and yours. but only halloween for now. the other well wishes will be coming later, dunked in a glass of egg nog.