Our current favorite version of O Holy Night is the South Park version where they poke Cartman with a cattle prod.

Though I'm sure I've got a prettier one on possibly my Roches album.

Today I played my xmas CD by the Players, a troop of traditional British musicians who play 19th century and earlier Christmas carols on acoustic, traditional instruments (like, the hurdy gurdy for that lovely bit of drone).

It's very Dickens Christmas.

You totes can!

Okay! I'm going to try. Surely the internet knows how. I have wire. I have a ribbon. Who better than me?

Who better than me?

Martha Stuart. But you're number 2.

That's great that Emmett does that.

rise-overnight chocolate croissants for breakfast tomorrow

Where have these been all my life?

The Mexican "hot" chocolate cupcakes I baked yesterday are truly epic, though.

O Holy Night

IMO, Perry Como sings the one true version. For a completely different sound, I also enjoy Tracy Chapman's.

Why is framing so expensive? I'm sure I'm being robbed, but even so. I never have the energy to comparison shop.

Framing is expensive. It requires a lot of specialty tools. You probably aren't being robbed. I know an artist who went into framing and started a business because it was too damn expensive to keep paying to frame his own work.

I've six O Holy Nights. This one by Lou Christie with the Pittsburgh Choir is pretty. Also have Brave Combo's O Holy Night Cha Cha, and a soul version with Irma Thomas, Tracie Thomas and Marcia Ball.

I'm sure I'm being robbed simply because a) OMG expensive but also I'm going to the nearest place to my apartment and it's a chain store and I've never comparison shopped and I don't even choose very aggressively. It's all on me.

but then I had to stop to have a discussion with Dita about whether or not she could eat the tree.

Om nom nom bzzzzzzt

This has been driving me nuts the past couple of days - the snot color thing is a myth. Green snot is the result of your immune system fighting something, could be viral, could be bacterial, could be allergies. It's not a reliable method of diagnosing sinus infections.

Okay, I need to clear up my knowledge here --

What I think - It's a sign of your immune system fighting something so it is a sign of infection, just it could be bacterial (anti-b's for YOU, if that is your wont) or viral (no anti-b's for you because useless) and the color is no indication of which. Because I always was told that the green was infection, just it wasn't color coded to WHAT was infecting you and thus you couldn't diagnose treatment on color alone.

Am I completely wrong?

And go, Ron Wyden, for showing up to vote even though he's supposed to be prepping for cancer surgery.

Yes. And glad to see the results of the vote.