... You just might be a Christmas fanatic..
1) If the local power company workers refer to you as, 'the guy who blew out the transformer'...
2) If the storage area for your display has more square footage than your home...
3) If your display has been featured in a nationally televised TV program or commercial...
4) If your favorite birthday gift is a new sub-panel...
5) If you feel disappointed that your Wal-Mart/Target/Home Depot has not put out the Christmas stock by September...
6) If heavy construction equipment is needed to setup your display...
7) If you have ever rescued a blow mold from the trash bin...
8) If the directions to your display include the phrase 'go towards the glow on the horizon'...
9) If you learned to weld for the sole purpose of creating Christmas decorations...
10) If you wake up on June 25 and worry that there is not enough time to complete the preparations for your display...
11) If the combined length of your extension cords is measured in terms of miles/kilometers...
12) If you have ever converted an old vending machine into light controller...
13) If your priority list after hitting the Lotto has 'take the Christmas display to the next level' before 'set up a college fund for the kids'...
14) If December 26 is your biggest shopping day of the year...
15) If people automatically assume you are a certified electrician...
16) If you visualize a lighting sequence for every song you hear...
17) If the expression on a child's face while they look at your display causes you to well-up with pride and joy...
18) If your idea of a perfect summer vacation includes gathering with people who answered yes to at least five of these questions to discuss Christmas decorations...
19) If you set your alarm clock to wake you at 3AM...just to be there when your blowmold auction is ending...
20) If when cleaning the sofa...instead of spare change you find spare lights...same goes with the bottom of the washer...
21) If the power company stock holder's association votes you customer of the year...
22) If the power company sends you a get well card because you only put out 12 blowmolds, 15 inflatables, and 25,000 minilights in lieu of your normal display...
23) If you create a mini-display on your front lawn in August "just to see what it'll look like"...
24) If the weight of the light strings on your mega-tree causes your flag pole to collaspe...
25) If you're glad summer comes around, since the electric bills with the a/c running seems cheap compared to your December bill...
26) If the nearby airport has to divert planes because in December your yard is mistaken for a runway...
27) If, when a box comes to the door by UPS your son yells out, "Dad got more Christmas decorations". This is even before he even looked to see who the box was from. Which he is right and you get into more trouble...
28) If every time you sit down to the computer someone says: “Are you on that Christmas site, again?”...
29) If when you go to tell someone something, they first ask “Does this have anything to do with Christmas?”...
30) If when you have a countdown going 'till Christmas (102 days to go) since Christmas 2005...
31) If you play Christmas music every day in the middle of summer...
32) If you go on an Internet chatroom to talk about Christmas in July...
33) If when you catch the Christmas lighting disease in July...
34) If when the power meter is spinning like crazy to make the power company happy...
35) If when your street is busy one month out of the year...
36) If doing serious Christmas shopping in June...
37) If on the PC webboard more during the day than you are on work related sites...
38) If you listen to Christmas music in September...
39) If your fiance says you like being on that PC website more than you like talking to me...
40) If DHL, UPS and Fedex know you by name...
41) If your neighbors cringe when they see you in the yard in September and say please don't tell me you are starting already...
42) If your wife nick names you the demented elf...
43) If you clean out your garage, then go on ebay looking for more Christmas stuff because you have room for it now...
44) If on vacation instead of pulling off the highway to see attractions, you only pull off if you see a sign that says Chrstmas Shop next exit...
45) If you plan your work schedule so you can take July 25 off to watch QVC's Christmas in July from start to finish...
46) If your neighbor is laughing at you for painting wireframes in August...
47) If you daughter ask if you are on Planet Christmas again...
48) If your children know the videos of PC members by name. Are you looking at Ron Lister's video? Is that Don's video? Is that Carson Williams display?...
49) If your children can't find you if you are not at the computer or at what area you work on your display...
50) If your work mates roll their eyes at least 10 times a day, because you are talking Christmas, again!...
51) If your neighbor is questioning you because their kid is making Christmas stuff all year round with my kid!...
52) If your daughter has a countdown to Christmas sheet on the frig in September...
53) If your oldest daughter is making the my father is crazy signal to drivers who drive by as I test my lighted arches in August by the side of the road...
54) If you won't buy lunch because you could buy 2 sets of lights or an extension cord...
55) If you say something stupid and your friends say, "GO HANG SOME CHRISTMAS LIGHTS OR SOMETHING"...
57) If you wear Christmas shirts with the Simpsons on them in mid-summer...
58) If you look at your house to decide what can be "mixed up" this year to create a new effect, every time you pull out of the driveway...
59) If your kids friends come over in Sept. and say, "Why do you have Christmas stuff all over your house"...
60) If your birthday cake is covered in blowmold candles...
61) If the town wears sunglasses to keep the blinding light out of there eyes...
62) If when you open your home to 56 people you met over the internet, most of whom you have never actually met, throw them a party, and know you're perfectly safe because they are "Christmas people!"...
63) If when you hide the boxes your eBay blow mold wins came in from your spouse because you don't want to have "that" discussion again...
64) If when you use shorthand in your checkbook register so your spouse can't read who the payee is...
65) If when you own two storage sheds but the garage is still used for storing Christmas stuff and your 2 cars sit outside--year round...
66) If when you get that adreneline rush when you see a string of Christmas lights--and they don't even have to be lit...
67) If when you drive through your neighborhood and decorate everyone's house the way "you'd do it"...
68) If when you eagerly look for the Michael's 20% off coupon in the paper each week...
69) If when your all time favorite store is Menards...
70) If when you're given the choice to forego doing "your display" in order to go on a cruise instead and the idea is just too ridiculous to consider...
77) If when you can role up hundreds of feet of extension cords and when you use them the next year, you unrole them with out any of them tangling...
78) If you mow your yard during the summer and when you're done, you stand in front of your house and imagine what your display will look like...
…then you just might be a Christmas fanatic.
