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It's that time of year, my loves. With Renners enjoying more of a Tet-style holiday season, I thought I'd kickstart this old girl back into motion and see if anyone wants to toss in any yule logs to stoke the fire.

My holiday season began in earnest yesterday with the Santa Claus Parade and the older I get the more the realities of it being a frustrating event present themselves, but it still leaves me with the kind of wonderment and anticipation for Christmas as it did when I was four years old.

Yes, I realize the costumes probably don't get washed from year to year. No, I don't want to deal with those screaming kids. Yes, I laugh when kids fall down and hurt themselves... BUT, I appreciate it as the event that officially makes thinking about Christmas okay in this city, and it happens to be one of the only events this city can consistently do well, so I feel like I should revel in it before I'm saddled with kids of my own to try taming for the 2 hours the parade leaves them out in the freezing cold.

Still... every year Santa comes to town, I scream like an idiot when whichever drunk they've paid to pose as him comes rolling by on a glorified cube van and immediately go home to have my inaugural watching of Muppet Family Christmas.

So sue me.

So, it has begun. Feel free to join in, and invite your friends to do likewise. Because Christmas time is, in fact, here.