The Last Day of Non-Christmas

So it's that time of year again, November is drawing to a close and December is just around the corner. Many have already taken the opportunity to affix the decorations or sing along to the carols, but not I. As ever i have stuck hard and fast to my December rule, for me Christmas shall always start on the 1st of the last month of each year, on that day and on that day only shall i open up my Christmas playlist and welcome the festive tunes to my room.

Being at university hasn't affected this either, even with the reduced time to celebrate, the December rule isn't affected by such a change of circumstance. However this year, the urge to let out the festive spirit has been greater than recent years, which has put the rule under serious strain. Could i make it to the 1st without any festivities? Alas i could not, i'm afraid to say, i have already played a few Christmas songs, though i console that with the fact is was more of a way of finding out what Christmas music had made the journey up north.

Also the first mince pie of the season has already been scoffed down, though i'm not sure this has ever been a part of the rule anyway. How can one possibly refuse a mince pie when offered? Anyway i believe the mince pie is a symbol of the upcoming festivities, a pre-marker really. Having said all this, i still haven't seen a Christmas advert, which might suggest to you i don't watch TV. Au contraire, i have been watching a lot of TV, it's just all online and so the annoyingness of early Christmas adverts has been mostly avoided.

However my excitement for the season is still higher than ever, which has led to my formation of an new part of the build up to Christmas, that is today shall now be known as "The Last Day of Non-Christmas". Ok, so it's not the snappiest name, and yes there might not seem to be much point to elevating this day to this title, after all surely it's just the same as any other year. Well yes actually, i haven't quite got round to actually figuring out what this day should encompass.

Obviously it can't have any real part of Christmas celebrations related to it, as that's the whole point of it. Frankly the less it is celebrated the better on principle really. So this is me telling you about a whole new part of Christmas celebrations, which shouldn't be about Christmas nor should it be celebrated. Yep that sounds about right. The only real significance it does symbolize is the start of what i hope to be daily blogging, to make amends for the lack of such over the last weeks which have flown by so so quickly.

Although this should not really be counted as the first of the series of advent blogs, since today has nothing to do about Christmas and therefore nothing to do with advent either. So it should be treated as any other post really, though now that i've mentioned all this it's probably better if you just forget it all ever happened and pretend that you didn't read a single word. So if you could do that, great; if you can't then i might have to find alternative ways to make you "forget".

So merry (in a totally non-Christmas way) last day of non-Christmas everyone!

This is a totally non-advent related advent calendar, that will be used as a visual way for the countdown of... well you know. (I'll explain why it's in a bit of a state at some point too)