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I do celebrate sunturn (aka solstice), lifting our glasses at the exact minute that the sun stops it walk towards darkness but turns around towards the next summer.
One of our traditional elements of sunturn celebration is watching the "Rare Exports Inc.", the greatest Christmas Horror Comedy movie ever made. Santa will never be the same after you have watched it.
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I found several "Rare Exports Inc." films ......
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They - that is a Finnish company, WoodpeckerFilms, making short commercial movies for a lot of customers - made a short that was sent to all their customers as a Christmas gift. I believe that was in year 2003. It leaked out to the internet, and made a huge hit.
The short made such a success that the company decided to make a full length feature film, released 2010. The final highlight is closely related to that of the short, but the story leading up to it is certainly quite different.
I do enjoy the short, but the real Christmas story comes in the full length feature film.
If you buy it on CD/DVD, there are a couple of supplementary shorts. Fair enough, but the two of significance are the 2003 short and the 2010 full length feature movie.
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Lucky me! 
Seven weeks of time for my family and me
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It's wide eyed terror.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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We have a couple of clients that BOTH wanted some work done before the new year. Jumping out of my fourth point of contact to get that done before the new year. What makes it even more interesting is that a lot of people are taking time off during the holidays.
I have asked management that we really need to stop work orders like this from happening during December. I am sure nothing will change. ugh.
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December is usually an easy month for me.
My customers are too busy to worry about me 
I'm visiting all of them with some bottles of wine and almond bars so they don't forget about me and they'll like me enough to come back in January 
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... when I have to put up the decorations (with the "assistance" of Dij the Cat*) and try to remember where I hid Herself's presents. I know they are "in a safe place where she won't find them" but I'm not certain I will either ... 
* Have you ever been attacked through a Christmas tree while trying to apply baubles? It's not helpful, not at all.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Have you ever been attacked through a Christmas tree while trying to apply baubles? It's not helpful, not at all.
No, but I've had the string of beads I'm trying to put on snatched out of my hands ... twice. And found the step on the ladder I'm trying to use to put a star on top already occupied.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss.
Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein
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I was putting the lights on our tree last night and looked over to see my cat in the light box.
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