A Pipe Dream Christmas

Err, Thanksgiving isn't really celebrated in England.

With the exception for the mad rush  

by the American ex-pat community

to Whole Foods on High Street Kensington...

most inhabitants of the UK blindly ignore this Thursday.

While we will pause to celebrate with our American friends,

I do feel that living on the original side of the Mayflower's journey

and in a land void of Pumpkin Spice Lattes or desserts... 

I fall exempt from the

"I will not acknowledge Christmas until Thanksgiving is over" rule.

Which, by the way, I think that is a hilarious argument... 

it's like equal rights for holidays.

Do people, like, honestly care?

Can't we all just celebrate whatever we want, whenever we want...

& skip the passive aggressive facebook statuses?

{Though I do feel "thankful" for facebook's "hide' feature in such cases...}

But anyway,

back to the topic:

Christmas!

As someone who is exempt from the post-Thanksgiving-celebration laws,

I've already started window shopping.

Yup. 

I'm awful.

Before you judge, please know this:

I live directly off Oxford Street

- the epicenter of charming Christmas retail -

and the absence of Thanksgiving 

already has us in full holiday swing here.

These types of visions really can't be avoided.

And I mean, 

if you're gonna make a Christmas list the first week of November

and offend people for your non-chronological celebrating...

you might as well shoot for the stars and go big, right?

So, without further adieu,

I present my Fantasy Christmas List...

complete with $19,000 earrings.

Or for any of the Thanksgiving purists out there,

I'll happily take any of these in November.

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