Christmas is my favorite time of year. I'm one of those people blasting Christmas music before Thanksgiving... way before Thanksgiving. I start in October, early in October, because it brings me joy (sorry friends!). I love the movies and I spend my days watching them all (Hallmark movies for the win!) I need all the decorations--all the time. Christmas is a season, not a day and this is what I believe in.

I believe in celebrating it all the time. Christmas brings such a coziness to me. There's just something about the season that I truly love: the wintery weather, the huge snowflakes, the oversized comfy sweaters, the even fuzzier socks. The insane amounts of joy that come with the season. I love being able to leave my house wearing a Santa hat and not being judged, and well if people care that I'm at work in my hat it sucks to be them because it's Christmas and I've waited so long for this! The season comes with family gatherings, lots of cookies, curling up in blankets and watching movies. There's endless mugs of hot cocoa with extra whipped cream on top. But when Christmas Day comes it goes by in the blink of an eye-- so why wouldn't someone want to have it last longer?

When it comes to the music, I don't ever turn down a chance to turn up the tunes. I will gladly walk through campus, a town, a large city or even a story singing any Christmas song with you. In fact, I turn to Christmas music to get me through the final weeks of the semester. It's the Christmas music that keeps me sane when everything goes crazy. I use the decorations to help boost my mood during finals week. Christmas is my sanity.

Quoting "Elf" is my specialty and I'll proudly stop whatever I am doing to show someone my Santa socks. I believe in Christmas music because of the joy that comes with them. So happy month of Christmas joy! Celebrate wise my friends and belt out those holiday tunes without a care in the world. Because as Buddy the Elf would say "the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear."