'Destiny'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
"Christmas Wrapping" is fun. I was a teenager when "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" came out. The first Christmas or two, it was a funny antidote to excessive sentimentality. (Welcome to the psyche of the male teenager.) However, it quickly became tedious and annoying.
I'm just not much on Christmas music generally. But I really like "Silver Bells."
O Holy Night is playing right now! Mariah Carey, not bad. I decided to turn on the music channel on the tv. Trumps the news cycle that was on for sure.
I'm inordinately fond of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You," especially the version with Jimmy Fallon and the Roots.
I love Christmas carols, both singing them and listening to them, including LDB and "Carol of the Bells." I have happily entered the randomly-start-singing-carols phase of the season, but have not yet heard LDB this year. I think my favorite modern rock carol is "Father Christmas" by Yes.
Who is it said "Wonderful Christmastime" is an abomination? So true.
I am fine with LDB but now I ha e "wonderful Christmas time" in my head and blame you.
Was supposed to have an 8am meeting but got home at almost midnight from a trip. Woke up to see meeting postponed, hit snooze...except no, actually turned alarm off. Woke up just in time for 9am meeting. Yay? Now to get shit done.
Oh, and in other news, just spoke to an education specialist about Frances and about maybe getting her assessed finally. Part of me feels like I'm now officially one of those special snowflake moms, and part of me thinks "shut up, judgey me!" I have long suspected she has a few learning deficits and while she's smart enough to compensate, I figure it's worth our while to see if there are ways to help her overcome those deficits.
One of the advantages of hitting my 40s is the "when are you having kids" question being put to rest forever.
I had mine at 56, so there is still a slim hope for your questioners.
I like "Wonderful Christmastime", I sang LDB too many times in church choir and it's just such a draggy melody. I don't get to hear the Kink's "Father Christmas, Give Us Some Money" or Emerson Lake and Palmer's "I Believe in Father Christmas" much--not surprising, "Father Christmas" is beautiful but very sobering. One of the last time's I heard it, they'd edited out one of the verses.
I was in Target last night, in the bathroom, and in one of the stalls there was a young girl singing the first bit of "O Holy Night" over and over and mangling the words.
"The Lord of the Dance"
Ha! I never knew it was associated with Xmas. This is a song I associate with funerals. I have heard it sung at a couple.
I really like In the Deep Midwinter, which I had never heard until I went to university. I guess because it's very English and we are not.