Holiday Season Happiness

It's official, the holiday season has started. I know that Christmas is 2 months away but it seems like Halloween starts a two and a half month long stretch of events (1).  I love this time of the year but have you noticed that the other parts of the year don't have nearly as many holidays?  I mean Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Years all in about a two month span?  This time even gets 8 Charlie Brown TV Specials, starting with: 

• It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
• A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
• A Charlie Brown Christmas
• The Making of "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
• It's Christmastime again, Charlie Brown
• Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales
• I Want a Dog for Christmas Charlie Brown
• Happy New Year Charlie Brown!

(No these are all real and you can look them up (2).  Too bad it's too late for "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown." (3))

Although I do feel bad for the doldrums in between President's Day and Memorial Day (4). I guess that if we didn't have the dry holiday spells, then we wouldn't appreciate this fun time of dressing up, visiting friends and eating food.

1. and increased caloric intake
2. Ahhh... wikipedia. So many uses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Peanuts_media#TV_Specials 
3. Not kidding about that one either, aired March 1976
4. Really, whoever thought working people didn't need a holiday for 4 months...was crazy