Breaking My Own Rules

It is not Christmas.
​Honestly, I'd much rather start decorating with pumpkins and all things fall right now, but am forcing myself to wait a few more weeks. You know, until the temps are under 100.
Also, I am not a girl who listens to Christmas music before Thanksgiving (if I can help it--we all know commercials and stores tend to start playing it much earlier than that) or after January 1st.
​But I've been listening to Christmas music. I'm trying to listen to Pandora stations that I don't normally stream so that at least it sounds a bit different than my usual playlist. But it's still the songs that run nonstop from Halloween to Christmas. The ones that get stuck in your head until you replace them with another. And baby, it definitely ain't cold outside right now.
So, why am I torturing myself?
Because I'm writing a Christmas novella. I meant to do it later this year, when it was actually Christmas-y and I could be in the right mood. But our deadline was moved up earlier than we thought it was. So, this story needs to be turned in by the end of November. And that means writing it when it's not Christmas-y.
So, jazzy Christmas music is playing on my computer so that I can be in the heads of Holly and Robert. She loves Christmas. He doesn't hate it, but doesn't love it nearly as much as she does. And they live on each side of a duplex.
"Duplexicity" is coming along. I passed 15k words this week. The other girls are working on their stories for Lighting up Christmas. And we're discussing ideas for a cover, even though it won't release for over a year. Still, isn't it exciting?
Think it's worth listening to these songs that get so stuck in my head when I am definitely not in the mood to have them stuck in my head? Here's hoping.
Do you try to keep Christmas music within a certain parameter? Can you imagine a valid reason to listen to it another time?