No, it isn't Christmas at all. Someone's been playing a terrible joke to make you think that it's late December, when it is in fact early August.
Since it is already almost to that point, I vote that we change the calendar; take what is currently December, add the last 15 days of November and the first 15 days of January, and change the name to Christmas... change the name of the whole 61-day-month to Christmas. Thanksgiving Day would be the second Thursday of Christmas, Christmas Day would be on Christmas 40th, New Years Day on Christmas 47th, and Martin Luther King Jr's birthday would be on the last day of Christmas, the 61st.
Bwahahaha! Eventually, it could gradually be expanded, little by little, until we have xmas 365.25 days per year! Oh, and please remember, we must hate the holiday, not the celebrants!
Well, even tho the season has become hypocritical & commercial to the point of my brain bleeding outwards, there's always something that makes it worthwhile, like the fact that soon I'll be an uncle when my sis has her li'l son in January 2007. Hell, who knows, maybe I'll shoot for that too.
Congratulations to you and your sis, Chuck. Being an uncle is GREAT!!! Sort of like all the perks of parenthood, but with less obligation, and if they get in a bratty mood, you just send 'em back to their parents!